Artist: Oana Catalina Chitu
Title Of Album: Bucharest Tango
Year Of Release: November 11, 2008
Label: Asphalt Tango Ger.
Genre: Tango | Romania, Germany
Quality: mp3
Bitrate: VBR, 190 kbps
Total Size: 70 mb
WebSite: Amazon

Tracklist

1. Pe bolta cand apare luna 03:25
2. Zaraza 02:25
3. Sub balcon eu ti-am cantat o serenada 03:03
4. Bun ii vinul Ghiughiului 04:07
5. Mana Birjar 04:15
6. Marie si Marioara 03:51
7. Ca la nunta 04:24
8. Azi noapte te-am visat 05:26
9. Da-mi gurita s-o sarut 02:35
10. Un tigan avea o casa 03:28
11. Femeia, eterna poveste 03.33
12. Aprinde o tigara 03:28
13. Vrei sa ne-ntalnim sambata seara 05:04

"Bucharest Tango" is a unique album, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs across the 1930s. Oana Ctlina Chiu (pronounce Kitsu) and her musicians combine the lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913-1963; the Romanian Piaf).
Oana was born in rural Romania and grew up listening to her father sing the lost tangos. Visiting relatives in Bucharest she found they had old gramophones and scratchy 78 recordings of the tangos. She began to memorise this beautiful, vanished music. At the same time she loved the songs of Maria Tanase, the tragic diva of Romania, whose voice once haunted the nation. No other singer of the younger generation from Romania has been able to approach both the tangos la romanesque and Tanase's ballads so authentically yet freely.
Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in the brilliant - now largely forgotten - musical traditions from a bygone age.