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Édes Gergelem

Édes Gergelem

Nine versions of the same Moldavian Hungarian (Csángó) folk song, "My Sweet Gregory", featuring bands like Zurgó, Muzsikás and Vasmalom.

4 comments

whatistigerbalm

Almost every time I do a search through 8tracks and something comes up that I think I'd totally like, it turns out to be yours. <3

tamf

this different-but-same approach will never cease to amaze me. good thing the name kept cropping up. ;)

mria

Love it -- Thanks!

tzniuswarrior

For Western listeners this is probably easier to assimilate than my previous "several versions of the same folk song" mix, because there is less variation.

There are some traditional performers from Moldavia in there, bands which play modern folk dance music in dance houses, and bands which play pretty much everything as long as it is Hungarian folk (like Muzsikás). There are non-folk versions of this song floating around the intertubes, but they have proven impossible to get ahold of in reasonable quality, so after a lot of frustration I decided against including them. Here is a rock version on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUxuSLbYD0
And you can convince last.fm to play you a trip hop version by a different band if you are lucky.

Have fun and enjoy the music!!!

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