Description
Fonó Records: Besh o droM — Macsó Hímzés (Audio CD)
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Product Details:
- UPC: 5998048508228
- Catalog Number: FA-082-2
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Fonó Records
- Artist: Besh o droM
- Album: Macsó Hímzés
- Release Year: 2002
- Genre: World
- Style: Balkan, Gypsy / Roma, Brass
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Discs: 1
- Origin: Hungary
- Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
Overview
Macsó Hímzés ("Macho Embroidery") is an album by the Hungarian band Besh o droM, masters of high-energy Balkan and Gypsy brass music. The group built its name on a sound that pulls from Romani, Balkan, and Middle Eastern traditions and fires it through a tight, dance-driven ensemble.
Besh o droM plays the kind of music that doesn't sit still. Brass, reeds, accordion, and percussion drive forward at full tilt, with the wild, celebratory energy of a wedding band turned loose. The Hungarian liner note on the back captures it well, calling the band a "clean source, the water of life" and warning — with a wink — that daily listening is strongly recommended and overdose needn't be feared.
The instruments pictured on the back say it plainly: saxophones, trumpet, accordion, cimbalom, guitar, hand drums, and more, all in service of a sound that crosses borders without asking permission. This is festival music, party music, the soundtrack to dancing until your legs move on their own.
Released on the Hungarian label Fonó Records, Macsó Hímzés is a strong entry point into one of Central Europe's most exhilarating world-music acts.
Interesting Facts
- Besh o droM was formed in Budapest in 1999 and quickly became one of Hungary's best-known Balkan and Gypsy fusion bands.
- The band's name comes from a Romani phrase that plays on the idea of "sitting on the road" — a pun also echoing the Hungarian "besározom" ("I'll muddy it up").
- Besh o droM is known for blending Balkan brass, Romani melodies, klezmer, and Middle Eastern rhythms into a single driving sound.
- Fonó Records, based in Budapest, is one of Hungary's leading labels for folk and world music, closely tied to the Fonó Budai Zeneház music venue.
- The band built much of its early reputation through relentless live performance, and its studio albums aim to capture that concert energy.
- The back-cover note is by Hungarian writer Barabás András, who praises the band's life-affirming, border-crossing spirit.
Publishers
Released by Fonó Records (Fonó Budai Zeneház), Budapest, catalog FA-082-2. Made in Hungary.
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