Goran Bregovic
Welcome to Goran Bregovic - 20 tracks Best of (CD)

WRASS241

For the very first time – the best of brings together all of Goran’s famous works, including his collaborations with Cesaria Evora, Iggy Pop and Scott Walker. A musical master and the Balkan’s greatest exponent of modern gypsy music Even in Tito’s Yugoslavia, rock ‘n‘ roll took the nation by storm in the 60s. Answers to teenage revolts sparked by the genre and growing awareness of the electric guitar’s potential to attract the female of the species guided him to form a rock band. In 1974, the first album from Bijelo Dugme (White Button) won immediate acclaim. Over the next 14 years, they released 12 records and sold millions of albums. The next episode began as Emir Kusturica, the famed film director approached Goran to work on his project, “Time of the Gypsies”. The pair followed this success with “Arizona Dream”, where Goran further developed his repertoire along with the godfather of punk, Iggy Pop. It was the live stage that next drew Goran’s attention, uniting Gypsy musicians on brass and percussion, he created his Weddings and Funerals Orchestra, an ensemble that changes size according to requirement between 12 and 42 musicians. Few musicians have managed to develop such a wide-ranging artistic spectrum, coherently fusing such a broad variety of styles and techniques without losing its identity.

Track listing:

1. Tale, Pt.3 - (feat. Z. Colic/The Georgian Male Choir/The Wedding & Funeral Band)
2. Stop - (featuring The Wedding & Funeral Band)
3. Gas Gas Gas - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band)
4. Mesecina/Moonlight - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band/Slobodan Salijevic)
5. Nuit, La - (feat. Dusan Prelevic/Belgrade Radio-Television Choir)
6. Underground Tango - (feat. Zudjic Bojan/Vesna Jovanovic/The RTB Orchestra)
7. In the Death Car - (featuring Iggy Pop)
8. Hop Hop Hop - (feat. Saban Bajramovic/The Wedding & Funeral Band)
9. Rencontre
10. ELO Hi - (feat. Chjami Aghalesi Choir/Ofra Haza)
11. Dreams - (feat. Belgrade Radio-Television Choir)
12. Yeremia - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band)
13. Kalasjnikov - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band)
14. Gul - (feat. Sezen Aksu)
15. Tale, Pt.4 - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band)
16. Ederlezi
17. Maki Maki - (feat. The Wedding & Funeral Band)
18. Ya Ya Ringe Ringe Raja - (feat. Zlatko Colic)
19. Ausencia - (feat. Césaria Évora)
20. Man from Reno - (feat. Scott Walker)

Published: 2009

Genre: Gypsy & Balkan
Label: Wrasse Records