Saving for winter is one of Mother Nature's oldest lessons, but unlike nature, the music industry does little to accommodate releases for enjoyable consumption outside the Christmas fever. And when it comes to world music, the procedure is a lot like allowing an elephant in a china store. If it weren't for a couple labels, namely Luaka Bop and Crammed Discs, sorting out traditional music from around the world would be like stepping on rocks and expecting them to produce wine.
Fortunately, things are slowly changing – world music is no longer an island (by its definition, it should never have been), and the clubbing factor is pushing the envelope for a wider acclaim. This compilation "Nuit Tsigane: Gypsy Night at le Divan du Monde", as remixed by Gaetano Fabri, is a clever take on Balkan music to, well, sort of debalkanize it. Emir Kusturica's work as a director and a musician is, of course, a good help.
But there's a lot of fun in transgression. When you do so, you're more likely to get the most cake...or a bigger bite of the poison apple. Either way, it's always worth every sweet drop. The recipe here is simple: add dance floor vibe to an already messy equation. Let's start by slicing out two cuts by the most obvious ensemble in "Nuit Tsigane": Fanfare Ciocãrlia, a brass band from eastern Romania.
The first one, "Alili", has the eye-opening potential of two cans of Red Bull, but it's with the couch-inducing "Godzila" that you can almost smell the dirt on the dancers' feet. Another inevitable highlight in the record has to be "Go East", performed by Taraf De Kaïdouks and revised by Gaetano Fabri. On this one, the legitimate heirs of the Romanian "laurati" gypsies play a valuable tribute to "tradition" – a word immortalized and, above all, praised in Norman Jewison's movie "Fiddler on the Roof".
The most reliable guarantee when purchasing "Nuit Tsigane" is that you will never fall asleep at the wheel. The only down-side is that, because of its schizophrenic and attention-grabbing qualities, you really should never drive and play this record at the same time. Apart from that there's nothing much to add, except that this is one good example of how tradition and avant-garde can work hand in glove.
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