MACEDONIAN FOLK DANCES VOL.1
Folkraft, no date, LP -15
The American label Folkraft was founded in 1946 and published folk dances and square dances records. Here we have the first volume of a series of three about Macedonian dances. It is the result of a trip made by Dennis Boxell (''America's leading expert on Jugoslav folk dances'' says the back cover) in 1964. He and Ricky Holden then selected 36 recordings for this series.
The music is performed by traditional musicians on zurla, tapan, gajda and kaval as well as local folk orchestras. Nothing exceptional on this album except for the gajdas duets with tapan : they play in fact one after the other but never together, just keeping the drone on while the other gajda plays the tune. Something I rarely heard before.There is also one brass band.
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