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Eastern European & Russian
including gypsy music & klezmer

A

Akvarium, with Boris Grebenshchikov
Legendi Russkaga Roka (1998)

Chava Albertstein
The Well, with the Klezmatics (1996/2001)
End of the Holiday (2003)

The Alexandria Kleztet
Close Enough for Klezmer (2007)

AngeLight
Energy's Music (1998)
Warrior of Spirit (1998)

Yasko Argirov
Hot Blood (2002)

Atzilut
The Fourth World: Planetary Jewish Music (1999)


B

Balkan Playboys
Balkaninis (2003)

Balval
Blizzard Boheme (2007)
Le Ciel Tout Nu (2010)

Roza Bancseva & the Slavia Orkestar
Jana-Janica (2001)

Besh o droM
Can't Make Me! (Nekemtenemmutogatol!) (2003)

Beyond the Pale
Routes (2001)
Consensus: Live in Concert (2004)

Black Sea Station
Transylvania Avenue (2011)

Boiled in Lead
Songs from the Gypsy (1995)

The Burning Bush
Klezmer & Hassidic Music (1998)

Maria Buza, with Taraful Ciuleandra
The Gypsies of Wallachia (2001)


C

Calliope Fair
On Board the Armenia (2002)

The Carnivaleros
Lost in the Graveyard (2006)

Cascade Folk Trio
Old Street (2003)

Cedar Hill Refugees
Pale Imperfect Diamond (2009)

Michael Church
Songs from the Steppes: Kazakh Music Today (2005)

Adrienne Cooper & Zalman Mlotek
Ghetto Tango: Wartime Yiddish Theater (2000)


D

Gevorg Dabaghyan
Miniatures: Masterworks for Armenian Duduk

Danaj
Janicku nas, Janku (2006)

Deep Forest
Boheme (1995)

Di Naye Kapelye
A Mazeldiker Yid (2001)

Doina Timisului
Romanian Tradition (2003)

Druzina
Tragare (2006)

Galina Durmushliyska
The Enchanting Voice of Bulgaria (2002)


E

Earth-Wheel-Sky-Band
Waltz Rromano (2003)

Enekk
Fyra Naetur Fyri Jol (1997)

Ensemble Burler
Vol. I (2000)

Ensemble Georgika
Vol. III (1996)

Ensemble Karot
Vol. I (2000)
Traditional Songs of Armenia, Vol. II (2001)

Ensemble Mzetamze
Traditional Songs of Georgian Women, Vol. 1 (1996)
Vol. II (2000)

Ensemble Odila
Traditional Songs from a Georgian Village (2007)

Ensemble Pesnokhorki
Traditional Songs of Cossacks, Vol. 1 (1998)
Vol. II (1998)


F

Finjan
Dancing on Water (2000)

Fishtank Ensemble
Samurai Over Serbia (2007)

The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
Tsirkus (1999)


G

The Great American Gypsies
Before I Had a Red Tomato (2004)

Boris Grebenshikov
Legendi Russkaga Roka, with Akvarium (1998)
Russian Songwriter (2002)

Gypsophilia
Occidentally on Purpose (1999)
Free Inside (2002)


H

Mary Ann Harbar
Gypsy Violin (1997)


I

Ilgi
Saules Meita (1998)

Jony Iliev Band
Ma Maren Ma (2003)

Isle of Klezbos
Mosaic Persuasion, with Metropolitan Klezmer (2001)
Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos (2003)


J

Rahel Jaskow
Day of Rest (2000)


K

Balogh Kalman & the Gipsy Cimbalom Band
self-titled (2001)

Ingrid Karklins
A Darker Passion (1992)
Anima Mundi (1994)
Red Hand (1997)

Khevrisa
European Klezmer Music (2000)

Kitka
Wintersongs (2004)

The Klezmatics
Jews With Horns (1995/2002)
Possessed (2002)
Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! (2002)

The Klezmer Conservatory Band
Dance Me to the End of Love (2000)

Tomas Kocko & Orchestr
Poplor (2006)

Boris Kovac & La Campanella
World After History: A Pannonian-Mediterranean Round-Trip (2005)

Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchest
Ballads at the End of Time: La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica #2 (2003)

David Krakauer & Socalled with Klezmer Madness
Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me (2005)


L

Marilyn Lerner & David Wall
Still Soft Voiced Heart (2001)

Les Yeux Noirs
Balamouk (2002)
Live (2002)
tChorba (2005)

Margot Leverett
The Art of the Klezmer Clarinet (2000)

Livonia
Laulan Mere Maaksi (2001)

Frank London
Brotherhood of Brass, with the Klezmer Brass Allstars (2002)
The Zmiros Project, with Lorin Sklamberg & Rob Schwimmer (2002)

Frank London & Lorin Sklamberg
tsuker-zis (2009)


M

Eyal Maoz
Hope & Destruction (2009)

Boban Markovic Orkestar
The Promise (2006)

Metropolitan Klezmer
Yiddish for Travelers (1998)
Mosaic Persuasion, with the Isle of Klezbos (2001)
Live: Traveling Show (2007)

Mikveh
self-titled (2001)

The Moon & the Nightspirit
Osforras (2010)

Valdis Muktupavels
Kokles (2002)


N

Sainkho Namtchylak
Stepmother City (2000)

Sevara Nazarkhan
Yol Bolsin (2003)

New Budapest Orpheum Society
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2002)
Jewish Cabaret in Exile (2009)


O

Oi Va Voi
Laughter Through Tears (2003)

The Okros Ensemble
Transylvanian Village Music from Gypsy, Hungarian & Romanian Traditions (1999)
I Left My Sweet Homeland (2001)

Old World Folk Band
Crossing New Borders (1998)

The Optina Pustyn Male Choir of St. Petersburg
Orthodox Chants from Russia (2003)

Orientexpressen
An Unfinished Story (2005)

Biruta Ozolina
Sirdsgriezi (Heart Solstice) (2002)


P

Posmrtne Zkusenosti
Aither (2006)

Ugis Praulins
Paganu Gadagramata (1999)

Romica Puceanu & the Gore Brothers
Sounds from a Bygone Age, Vol. 2 (2006)


R

The Radost Folk Ensemble
Heirloom: 25 Years

Radůza
Při Mnĕ Stůj (Stand By Me) (2003)

Rubinstein Klezmer Project
Fiddler on the Road: Klezmer, Ladino & Balkan Songs (2013)


S

Sarband
Ballads of the Sephardic Jews (1999)
Sacred Women (2001)

Gregori Schechter & the Wandering Few
Klezmer (2003)

Márta Sebestyén
Kismet (1996)

Sheelanagig
 Baba Yaga's Ball (2007)

Shir
Israeli Songs (2004)

Rumen & Angel Shopov
Soul of the Mahala (2006)

Simaku
Echoes from Iliria (2006)

Moira Smiley & VOCO
Blink (2006)

Solomon & Socalled
HipHopKhasene (2003)

Stars of St. Petersburg
Russia's Most Beautiful Tunes (2012)


T

Talisman
Music of Russian Princesses: From the Court of Catherine the Great (2001)

Tara Fuki
Kapka (2003)

Ternipe
Hungarian Gypsy Music (2006)

Rob Tobias & Friends
Bagel Roots & Water Dogs (1998)
Sparks (2000)
By the River: Renewing the Jewish Spirit (2006)

Ivan Tucakov & the Tambura Rasa
Viaje (2004)

Two Siberians
Out of Nowhere (2005)


U

The Ukrainians
Respublika (2002)


V

Alison Vardy
Harping On (1990)
Apasionada (2000)

various artists
Beyond the River: Seasonal Songs of Latvia (1998)
Blowers from the Balkans (2005)
Gypsy Caravan (2001)
Gypsy Groove (2007)
The Hidden Gate: Jewish Music Around the World (2003)
A Jewish Odyssey (2000)
Latcho Drom (1994)
Latviesu Danci (1999)
Music from Castle Dracula (1996)
Music from Macedonia 2 (2004)
Music from Montenegro (2005)
Music from the Land of the Vampires (1996)
The Rough Guide to Hungarian Music (2002)
The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe (1998)
The Rough Guide to the Music of Russia (2002)
The Rough Guide to the Music of the Balkans (2004)
The Rough Guide to the Music of the Gypsies (1999)
Songs from the Steppes: Kazakh Music Today (2005)
A Taste of Chanukah (1999)
World Library of Folk & Primitive Music: Romania (2001)
World Library of Folk & Primitive Music: Yugoslavia (2001)
World of Gypsies, Vol. III (2003)

"King" Naat Veliov & the Original Kocani Orkestar
Gypsy Follies (2003)

Kalinka Vulcheva
The Dobroudja Nightingale (2000)


W

David Wall & Marilyn Lerner
Still Soft Voiced Heart (2001)

Warsaw Village Band
People's Spring (2001)

Wimme
self-titled (1997)
Gierran (1999)

Paul Winter
Earthbeat (1987)


Y

Hanna Yaffe
Lullabies from Jerusalem (1998)

Les Yeux Noirs
Balamouk (2002)
Live (2002)
tChorba (2005)


Z

Georghe Zampir & Friends
Folksongs from Rumania (1990)

Zingaros
Gitango (2013)