Every empire has its music, but ever since the walls of Jericho came tumbling down, tyrants, liars, hypocrites and knaves have withered before the trumpet's fiery blast. Invariably, popular artists take the music of dominant groups and convert it to impertinent forms of cultural expression, as with brass band music� whether New Orleans, Serbian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian, Macedonian, Greek, Turkish, Gypsy, Jewish or Japanese. Its various innovators have taken the martial music of the governing regime, absorbed from the everyday soundscape, and reworked it into distinctive, artistically insubordinate folk traditions. A potent array of new and archival brass-band recordings so testifies�frenetically, deliriously, farcically, tragically. - Read the rest of Michael Stone's survey of brass band music from 2002 with music from Sandy Lopicic, Boban Marcovic, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Sch�l Sick Brass Band, Cicala Mvta and a special set of live recordings form the Dragacevo Brass Band Festival.
Listen to the horns of the world in this special edition of RootsWorld Radio. Included is music from Spain, India, USA, Britain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Germany, Roumania, Hungary, and much more, from the purest folk music to the avant garde. Listen!
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The unique brass bands of India are exemplified in this audio feature of the Darbar Brass Band of Pune. Warren Senders gives us the tour.
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More horns on RootsWorld
(most include full songs in Real Audio)
Dresch Quartett (Hungary)
Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania)
Boris Kovac and The LaDaABa Orchest (Serbia)
Karandila Brass Orchestra (Bulgaria)
Banda Ionica (Italy)
Di Grine Kuzine
There is lots more....
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