Asphalt Tango Records
Encyclopedia
Asphalt Tango Records is a Berlin
-based record label
specialising in Balkan Gypsy music and East European rock, psych-folk, cabaret and electronic music
.
where both were working a variety of odd jobs (Ernst as waiter and nurse, Neumann as shoemaker for disabled persons, night receptionist). In 1989 both attended the Monday Protests in Leipzig. Upon the fall of the Berlin Wall
and the reunification of Germany Ernst and Neumann shifted to Berlin.
In 1996 Ernst was travelling in Moldavia
, north-eastern Romania
. Upon arriving in the tiny Gypsy village of Zece Prajini
Ernst learned that a highly distinctive regional brass band
tradition still existed there. Impressed by the talent he heard and certain a wider public would enjoy hearing a Romanian Gypsy brass band, Ernst returned to Germany
and set about booking a tour.
in Germany and France
spread across 45 days in March–April, 1997. Ernst, realising the work was too much for one person, invited Neumann to help. Initially, Asphalt Tango existed solely as management and booking agents for Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Asphalt Tango Records licensed its next two CD releases. The first album was Hungarian Gypsy band Besh o DroM
's Can't Make Me. The next album was Serbia
n Gypsy band Earth Wind Sky Band's Waltz Rromano. Asphalt Tango's next release was the Fanfare Ciocarlia DVD The Story Of The Band. This DVD incorporated live concert footage, the Ralf Marschalleck film Iag Bari - Brass On Fire (which follows Fanfare Cicoarlia on tour from Zece Prajini to Tokyo
). Songlines Magazine
, reviewing The Story Of The Band, wrote that it "set a new standard for world music
DVD
s."
Asphalt Tango's next release was the international debut album from Polish accordion
band Motion Trio
Pictures From The Street. In March 2005 Asphalt Tango released the fourth Fanfare Ciocarlia album Gili Garabdi.
era. Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol.1 Ion Petre Stoican
featured an album from the mid-1970s of the now-deceased Romanian fiddler Stoican backed by some of Bucharest
's lautari (professional musician caste, Gypsy musicians). Asphalt Tango would go on to issue "Sounds From A Bygone Age" albums by Romica Puceanu, Dona Dumitru Siminica, Toni Iordache
and Gabi Luncă
.
's 2007 film When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan). This inspired Ernst and Neumann to try and recreate something similar for Europe. They recorded a Fanfare Ciocarlia album called Queens & Kings that featured guest singers from different European Gypsy communities.
To preview the album Fanfare Ciocarlia headlined a concert in Bucharest, Romania, in December 2006. They were joined on stage by Esma Redžepova
, Jony Iliev, Kaloome, Mitsou
and Florentina Sandu. The Queens & Kings project toured Europe
and Australia
.
In 2009 Asphalt Tango remodelled Queens & Kings with Romania's Mahala Rai Banda
. A Mahala Rai Banda album, Ghetto Blasters, produced by Ernst and Neumann, was released on Asphalt Tango in late-2009 to coincide with the new Queens & Kings line-up touring Europe.
. In February 2006 they released the eponymous album from Serbian Gypsy roots rock band Kal
. In October 2007 they released Voice Letter by ErsatzMusika, a Berlin-based band made up of former Soviet Bloc musicians who mix rock, Russian folk, poetry and the conceptual art ideas of band leader Irina Doubrovskaja. In October 2008 they released Fake No More, the debut album by La Cherga, a Graz
-based electronic band with ska and dub influences made up of former Yugoslav musicians. In October 2008 they released Bucharest Tango by Oana Catalina Chitu, a Berlin-based Romanian singer who specializes in recreating the tango as played in Bucharest in the 1930s. In April 2009 Asphalt Tango released Kal's second album Radio Romanista and ErsatzMusika's second album Songs Unrecantable. In November 2009 they released Kottarashky
's debut album Opa Hey! This is an album of electronic music with samples from folk and Gypsy recordings by Bulgarian DJ/producer Nikola Gruev.
, Romania, Bulgaria
) in search of the region's foremost Gypsy musicians. In 2008 Princes Amongst Men was issued in German as Balkanblues und Blaskapellen (Hannibal Verlag). To coincide with the German edition Asphalt Tango issued a Princes Amongst Men CD compilation that gathered most of the musicians discussed in Cartwright's book. Princes Amongst Men is Asphalt Tango's first compilation.
CD-ATR 0203 Besh O Drom
"Can't make me!" / Release date 24.01.2003
CD-ATR 0303 Earth Wheel Sky Band "Waltz Rromano" / Release date 03.10.2003
DVD-ATR 0404 Fanfare Ciocărlia
"Gypsy brass legends – the Story of the band" / Release date 25.10.2004
CD-ATR 0504 Motion Trio
"Pictures from the street" / Release date 25.10.2004
CD-ATR 0605 Fanfare Ciocărlia
"Gili Garabdi
" / Release date 07.03.2005
CD-ATR 0705 Motion Trio
"Play-Station" / Release date 10.10.2005
CD-ATR 0805 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.1 "Ion Petre Stoican
" / Release date 01.11.2005
CD-ATR 0906 Kal
"Kal" / Release date 10.02.2006 / debut
CD-ATR 1006 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.2 "Romica Puceanu" / Release date 24.02.2006
CD-ATR 1106 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.3 "Dona Dumitru Siminica" / Release date 29.09.2006
CD-ATR 1207 Fanfare Ciocărlia
"Queens and Kings
" / Release date 23.02.2007
CD-ATR 1307 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.4 "Toni Iordache
" / Release date 27.04.2007
CD-ATR 1407 ErsatzMusika "Voice letter" / Release date 21.09.2007 / debut
CD-ATR 1508 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.5" Gabi Lunca
" / Release date 04.04.2008
CD-ATR 1608 Various "Princes amongst men" / Release date 06.06.2008
CD-ATR 1708 La Cherga "Fake no more" / Release date 26.09.2008 / debut
CD-ATR 1808 Oana Catalina Chitu "Bucharest Tango" / Release date 26.09.2008 / debut
LP-ATR 1908 La Cherga "Fake no more" / Release date 26.09.2008
CD-ATR 2009 Kal
"Radio Romanista" / Release date 30.01.2009
LP-ATR 2109 Kal
"Radio Romanista" / Release date 30.01.2009 / limited edition, vinyl 180g
CD-ATR 2209 ErsatzMusika "Songs Unrecantable" / Release date 10.04.2009
CD-ATR 2309 Fanfare Ciocărlia
"Live" / Release date 25.09.2009
LP-ATR 2409 Fanfare Ciocărlia
"Best of Gypsy Brass" / Release date 25.09.2009
CD-ATR 2509 Mahala Rai Banda
/ "Ghetto Blasters" / Release date 16.10.2009
CD-ATR 2609 Kottarashky
/ "Opa Hey!" / Release date 13.11.2009 / debut
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
-based record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
specialising in Balkan Gypsy music and East European rock, psych-folk, cabaret and electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
Origins
Asphalt Tango Production was formed by Henry Ernst and Helmut Neumann in 1997. The two men became friends in the 1980s in the city of LeipzigLeipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
where both were working a variety of odd jobs (Ernst as waiter and nurse, Neumann as shoemaker for disabled persons, night receptionist). In 1989 both attended the Monday Protests in Leipzig. Upon the fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
and the reunification of Germany Ernst and Neumann shifted to Berlin.
In 1996 Ernst was travelling in Moldavia
Moldavia
Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...
, north-eastern Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. Upon arriving in the tiny Gypsy village of Zece Prajini
Dagâţa
Dagâţa is a commune in Iaşi County, Romania. It is composed of eight villages: Băluşeşti, Boatca, Buzdug, Dagâţa, Mănăstirea, Piscu Rusului, Poienile, Tarniţa and Zece Prăjini. The commune had 4809 people at the 2002 census; of these, 89.8% were ethnic Romanian and 10.2% were Roma...
Ernst learned that a highly distinctive regional brass band
Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section. Ensembles that include brass and woodwind instruments can in certain traditions also be termed brass bands , but are usually more correctly termed military bands, concert...
tradition still existed there. Impressed by the talent he heard and certain a wider public would enjoy hearing a Romanian Gypsy brass band, Ernst returned to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and set about booking a tour.
Fanfare Ciocarlia's first tour and the formation of Asphalt Tango
Ernst managed to book twenty dates for the musicians now called Fanfare CiocărliaFanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
in Germany and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
spread across 45 days in March–April, 1997. Ernst, realising the work was too much for one person, invited Neumann to help. Initially, Asphalt Tango existed solely as management and booking agents for Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Establishment as an independent record label
By 2002 the three Fanfare Ciocarlia albums released on Berlin's record label Piranha were amongst the most popular albums that label had ever handled, the combined sales proved to Ernst and Neumann that they could operate Asphalt Tango as an independent label. They released their first album Ma Maren Ma by the Bulgarian Gypsy singer Jony Iliev (produced by Ernst and Neumann), in November, 2002.Asphalt Tango Records licensed its next two CD releases. The first album was Hungarian Gypsy band Besh o DroM
Besh O Drom
Besh o droM is a Hungarian music group. Their music blends folk and contemporary instruments , in styles ranging from jazz to world music...
's Can't Make Me. The next album was Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n Gypsy band Earth Wind Sky Band's Waltz Rromano. Asphalt Tango's next release was the Fanfare Ciocarlia DVD The Story Of The Band. This DVD incorporated live concert footage, the Ralf Marschalleck film Iag Bari - Brass On Fire (which follows Fanfare Cicoarlia on tour from Zece Prajini to Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
). Songlines Magazine
Songlines (magazine)
Songlines is the name of a British based magazine launched in 1999 that covers music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from around the globe....
, reviewing The Story Of The Band, wrote that it "set a new standard for world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s."
Asphalt Tango's next release was the international debut album from Polish accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
band Motion Trio
Motion Trio
Motion Trio is a Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The group has worked with such artists as Bobby McFerrin and Michał Urbaniak, and won such prizes as the grand prix 4th Edition of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition...
Pictures From The Street. In March 2005 Asphalt Tango released the fourth Fanfare Ciocarlia album Gili Garabdi.
"Sounds from a Bygone Age" series
In November 2005 Asphalt Tango Records released the first in a series of CD reissues of Romanian Gypsy music from the Nicolae CeauşescuNicolae Ceausescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...
era. Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol.1 Ion Petre Stoican
Ion Petre Stoican
Ion Petre Stoican was a Romani-Romanian violinist, a lăutar .-Life:Originally from Olteniţa, Stoican was related to celebrated violinist Ion Nomol...
featured an album from the mid-1970s of the now-deceased Romanian fiddler Stoican backed by some of Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
's lautari (professional musician caste, Gypsy musicians). Asphalt Tango would go on to issue "Sounds From A Bygone Age" albums by Romica Puceanu, Dona Dumitru Siminica, Toni Iordache
Toni Iordache
Toni Iordache was a Romani-Romanian lăutar and one of the most famous cimbalom players in the world. He was nicknamed the God of the Cimbalom and Paganini of the cimbalom.-Early life:...
and Gabi Luncă
Gabi Lunca
Gabi Luncă is a Romani singer of urban lăutarească music from Romania, born in Vărbilău, Prahova County.Her father was also a lăutar, a violinist very respected among lăutari because he was a "notist"...
.
Queens & Kings
Fanfare Ciocarlia had participated in the 2002 US Gypsy Caravan tour (chronicled in Jasmine DellalJasmine Dellal
Jasmine Dellal is a British-born Film director and producer. She was born and raised in Great Britain, studied in the United States and has often visited India, where her grandmother lives. She speaks Spanish, French, and English. She received her Bachelors Degree in French and Spanish language &...
's 2007 film When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan). This inspired Ernst and Neumann to try and recreate something similar for Europe. They recorded a Fanfare Ciocarlia album called Queens & Kings that featured guest singers from different European Gypsy communities.
To preview the album Fanfare Ciocarlia headlined a concert in Bucharest, Romania, in December 2006. They were joined on stage by Esma Redžepova
Esma Redzepova
Esma Redžepova is a Macedonian vocalist, songwriter, and humanitarian. During her life she has performed in more than 9000 concerts in 30 countries, with her late husband Stevo Teodosievski she has fostered forty-seven children, and she has received numerous accolades for her humanitarian work. By...
, Jony Iliev, Kaloome, Mitsou
Mónika Juhász Miczura
Mónika Juhász Miczura is a Hungarian Roma singer, also known as "Mitsu" and "Mitsou". She is a former member of the highly acclaimed folk ensemble Ando Drom, and a founding member of the electronic/world music group Mitsoura. Her voice is widely considered unique...
and Florentina Sandu. The Queens & Kings project toured Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
In 2009 Asphalt Tango remodelled Queens & Kings with Romania's Mahala Rai Banda
Mahala Rai Banda
Mahala Rai Banda is a gypsy band based in Bucharest . It was formed by violinist and composer Aurel Ionitsa, who originally comes from a family of lautari from the village of Clejani. He is related to several members of Taraf de Haïdouks...
. A Mahala Rai Banda album, Ghetto Blasters, produced by Ernst and Neumann, was released on Asphalt Tango in late-2009 to coincide with the new Queens & Kings line-up touring Europe.
New East European Gypsy, psych-folk, cabaret & electronic music releases
Asphalt Tango continue to release new music from Eastern EuropeEastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
. In February 2006 they released the eponymous album from Serbian Gypsy roots rock band Kal
Kal (band)
Kal is a world music Romani band from Serbia . They attracted Serbian and worldwide public interest with their eponymous debut album, released in 2006, presenting a blend of traditional Balkan Roma music with influences of Tango, Middle Eastern, Turkish and even Jamaican influences.Kal was formed...
. In October 2007 they released Voice Letter by ErsatzMusika, a Berlin-based band made up of former Soviet Bloc musicians who mix rock, Russian folk, poetry and the conceptual art ideas of band leader Irina Doubrovskaja. In October 2008 they released Fake No More, the debut album by La Cherga, a Graz
Graz
The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
-based electronic band with ska and dub influences made up of former Yugoslav musicians. In October 2008 they released Bucharest Tango by Oana Catalina Chitu, a Berlin-based Romanian singer who specializes in recreating the tango as played in Bucharest in the 1930s. In April 2009 Asphalt Tango released Kal's second album Radio Romanista and ErsatzMusika's second album Songs Unrecantable. In November 2009 they released Kottarashky
Kottarashky
Kottarashky is a music producer who mixes field recordings made in his native Bulgaria, jazz and electronic music.-History and influences:Kottarashky is also a professional architect and interior designer...
's debut album Opa Hey! This is an album of electronic music with samples from folk and Gypsy recordings by Bulgarian DJ/producer Nikola Gruev.
Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians4
Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians (Serpents Tail) is a 2005 book written by the London-based journalist Garth Cartwright that follows his travels through four Balkan states (Serbia, MacedoniaRepublic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
, Romania, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
) in search of the region's foremost Gypsy musicians. In 2008 Princes Amongst Men was issued in German as Balkanblues und Blaskapellen (Hannibal Verlag). To coincide with the German edition Asphalt Tango issued a Princes Amongst Men CD compilation that gathered most of the musicians discussed in Cartwright's book. Princes Amongst Men is Asphalt Tango's first compilation.
Discography
CD-ATR 0102 Jony Iliev "Ma maren ma" / Release date 15.11.2002CD-ATR 0203 Besh O Drom
Besh O Drom
Besh o droM is a Hungarian music group. Their music blends folk and contemporary instruments , in styles ranging from jazz to world music...
"Can't make me!" / Release date 24.01.2003
CD-ATR 0303 Earth Wheel Sky Band "Waltz Rromano" / Release date 03.10.2003
DVD-ATR 0404 Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
"Gypsy brass legends – the Story of the band" / Release date 25.10.2004
CD-ATR 0504 Motion Trio
Motion Trio
Motion Trio is a Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The group has worked with such artists as Bobby McFerrin and Michał Urbaniak, and won such prizes as the grand prix 4th Edition of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition...
"Pictures from the street" / Release date 25.10.2004
CD-ATR 0605 Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
"Gili Garabdi
Gili Garabdi
Gili Garabdi - Ancient Secrets of Gypsy Brass is the fourth album released by Romanian twelve-piece Roma brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia. The album was recorded 2005 at both Zece Prăjini, Romania, and Headroom Studio, Berlin, Germany - the latter also being the place the album was mixed. Producers are...
" / Release date 07.03.2005
CD-ATR 0705 Motion Trio
Motion Trio
Motion Trio is a Polish accordion trio founded in 1996 by Janusz Wojtarowicz. The group has worked with such artists as Bobby McFerrin and Michał Urbaniak, and won such prizes as the grand prix 4th Edition of the Krzysztof Penderecki International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition...
"Play-Station" / Release date 10.10.2005
CD-ATR 0805 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.1 "Ion Petre Stoican
Ion Petre Stoican
Ion Petre Stoican was a Romani-Romanian violinist, a lăutar .-Life:Originally from Olteniţa, Stoican was related to celebrated violinist Ion Nomol...
" / Release date 01.11.2005
CD-ATR 0906 Kal
Kal (band)
Kal is a world music Romani band from Serbia . They attracted Serbian and worldwide public interest with their eponymous debut album, released in 2006, presenting a blend of traditional Balkan Roma music with influences of Tango, Middle Eastern, Turkish and even Jamaican influences.Kal was formed...
"Kal" / Release date 10.02.2006 / debut
CD-ATR 1006 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.2 "Romica Puceanu" / Release date 24.02.2006
CD-ATR 1106 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.3 "Dona Dumitru Siminica" / Release date 29.09.2006
CD-ATR 1207 Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
"Queens and Kings
Queens and Kings
Queens and Kings is the fifth album released by Romanian twelve-piece Roma brass band Fanfare Ciocărlia. The album was recorded and mixed 2007 at Headroom Studio, Berlin, Germany. Producers are Henry Ernst, Helmut Neumann and Marc Elsner...
" / Release date 23.02.2007
CD-ATR 1307 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.4 "Toni Iordache
Toni Iordache
Toni Iordache was a Romani-Romanian lăutar and one of the most famous cimbalom players in the world. He was nicknamed the God of the Cimbalom and Paganini of the cimbalom.-Early life:...
" / Release date 27.04.2007
CD-ATR 1407 ErsatzMusika "Voice letter" / Release date 21.09.2007 / debut
CD-ATR 1508 Sounds from a bygone age Vol.5" Gabi Lunca
Gabi Lunca
Gabi Luncă is a Romani singer of urban lăutarească music from Romania, born in Vărbilău, Prahova County.Her father was also a lăutar, a violinist very respected among lăutari because he was a "notist"...
" / Release date 04.04.2008
CD-ATR 1608 Various "Princes amongst men" / Release date 06.06.2008
CD-ATR 1708 La Cherga "Fake no more" / Release date 26.09.2008 / debut
CD-ATR 1808 Oana Catalina Chitu "Bucharest Tango" / Release date 26.09.2008 / debut
LP-ATR 1908 La Cherga "Fake no more" / Release date 26.09.2008
CD-ATR 2009 Kal
Kal (band)
Kal is a world music Romani band from Serbia . They attracted Serbian and worldwide public interest with their eponymous debut album, released in 2006, presenting a blend of traditional Balkan Roma music with influences of Tango, Middle Eastern, Turkish and even Jamaican influences.Kal was formed...
"Radio Romanista" / Release date 30.01.2009
LP-ATR 2109 Kal
Kal (band)
Kal is a world music Romani band from Serbia . They attracted Serbian and worldwide public interest with their eponymous debut album, released in 2006, presenting a blend of traditional Balkan Roma music with influences of Tango, Middle Eastern, Turkish and even Jamaican influences.Kal was formed...
"Radio Romanista" / Release date 30.01.2009 / limited edition, vinyl 180g
CD-ATR 2209 ErsatzMusika "Songs Unrecantable" / Release date 10.04.2009
CD-ATR 2309 Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
"Live" / Release date 25.09.2009
LP-ATR 2409 Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst...
"Best of Gypsy Brass" / Release date 25.09.2009
CD-ATR 2509 Mahala Rai Banda
Mahala Rai Banda
Mahala Rai Banda is a gypsy band based in Bucharest . It was formed by violinist and composer Aurel Ionitsa, who originally comes from a family of lautari from the village of Clejani. He is related to several members of Taraf de Haïdouks...
/ "Ghetto Blasters" / Release date 16.10.2009
CD-ATR 2609 Kottarashky
Kottarashky
Kottarashky is a music producer who mixes field recordings made in his native Bulgaria, jazz and electronic music.-History and influences:Kottarashky is also a professional architect and interior designer...
/ "Opa Hey!" / Release date 13.11.2009 / debut
External links
- http://www.asphalt-tango.de Official website Asphalt Tango Records
- http://www.myspace.com/asphalttangorecords Myspace Asphalt Tango Records
- http://www.youtube.com/user/AsphaltTangoRecords Youtube-Channel Asphalt Tango Records
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asphalt-Tango/44947584355 Facebook-Page Asphalt Tango Records
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2006/a4wm_fanfare.shtml BBC World Music Award 2006 for Fanfare Ciocarlia
- http://www.frootsmag.com/content/critpoll/ fRoots Critics Poll 2008 (Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.5: Gabi Lunca; Princes amongst Men)
- http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/Internet/Internet/www.itb-berlin/englisch/Media_Centre/Press_Releases_and_News/index.jsp?lang=1&newslang=en&newssys_id=28040&source_oid=550&year=2009 ITB Book Award (CD & book Princes amongst Men)
- http://www.wmce.de/ World Music Charts Europe
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/world-music-news/2009/06/underworld-frontman-karl-hyde-playlist-and-10-best-new-releases-in-july-2009-issue-of-songlines-61/ Underworld frontman Karl Hyde's world music playlist for Songlines July 2009 (Dona Dumitru Siminica)
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php Songlines Top of the World albums March 2010 (Kottarashky: Opa Hey!)
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php?id=41 Songlines Top of the World albums January/February 2009 (Oana Catalina Chitu: Bucharest Tango)
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php?id=22 Songlines Top of the World albums May 2007 (Fanfare Ciocarlia: Queens and Kings)
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php?id=20 Songlines Top of the World albums January/February 2007 (Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.3: Dona Dumitru Siminica)
- http://www.songlines.co.uk/topoftheworld/top-of-the-world.php?id=11 Songlines Top of the World albums März/April 2006 (Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.1: Ion Petre Stoican)
- http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/li/2008-4.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award) 2008 (La Cherga: Fake no more)
- http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/li/2008-2.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award) 2008 (Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.5: Gabi Lunca)
- http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/li/2006-2.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award) 2006 (Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.2: Romica Puceanu)
- http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/li/2005-1.html Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award) 2005 (Motion Trio: Pictures from the street)
- http://www.discogs.com/label/Asphalt+Tango+Records Asphalt Tango Records on Discogs