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Gastarbeiter handed me a CD, listen to this, he says.
Okay, I say.
And off I go on a mad musical trip around the New Europe diaspora & beyond - Michael Palin eat your heart out!
The track list somehow traces the immigrant's travels
za chlebem (Fürs Brot), hunting for a job out in the wide World to secure their existence without leaving their own culture behind and forgetting their roots .
A hint of nostalgia...
The CD is old, all scratched up and am not sure if I can save anything to remaster - it is definitely worth the effort though.
I hear Bollywood & Brazilian reggaeton, Balkan turbo-folk on speed with electric guitars, Celtic violins, a bit of R&B (which I promptly skip), Turkish belly moans; all in da mix with some deep throaty man-groans (not Shaggy though methinks, only if Shaggy can do it in Turkish too..??) and a touch of "taramasalata", I swear it's not all Greek though..
Still recovering from the
time bandits' theft of a full hour off the last weekend (how dare they!?), this "mongrelled" collection of songs happens to provide a very unexpected way to make me want to do anything at all on a grey day like this..
I want to share - I have salvaged the tunes and am posting this
New Europe Mishmash Murders Batty Batty Mega Mix here for your pleasure. It is quite raw.