''Samurai Over Serbia'' is the second full-length album by
Fishtank Ensemble
Fishtank Ensemble was a gypsy rock music group from Los Angeles, California, known for their unique, high-energy and virtuosic stage show that blends a wide range of styles including Balkan, Romanian, gypsy, French hot jazz, flamenco, Turkish, Gr ...
. It was independently released by the band in 2007. Traditional eastern European, gypsy jazz, klezmer and original tunes are arranged to fit the ensemble's unconventional, but imaginative sound. The groups sound is "consistently captivating, as if Gypsy swing continued to swirl around the world, picking up new inflections at every turn."
Fishtank Ensemble
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Track listing
#"Saraiman" (traditional, arr. F. Martinez) – 4:09
#"Turkish March" ( W.A. Mozart, arr. A. Seeman) – 2:59
#"Tchavo" (traditional, arr. F. Martinez) – 4:30
#"Face the Dragon" (music & arr. by F. Martinez) – 4:06
#"Gitanos Californeros" (D. Smolens, arr. Paco de Lucia
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) – 5:38
#"Spirit Prison" (music by D. Smolens, K. Kmetz, lyrics by U. Knudson) – 3:58
#"Fraima" (Cesare & GianCarlo dell'Anna, arr. F. Martinez) – 3:45
#"Youkali" (Kurt Weill
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) – 4:52
#"Ezraoul" (arr. F. Martinez) – 2:55
#"Mehum Mato" (traditional, arr. F. Martinez) – 7:16
#"Samurai Over Serbia" (traditional, arr. F. Martinez) – 7:33
#"Extremely Large Congenial Romanian" (music and arr. A Seeman) – 2:23
#"Yasaburpo Bush" (traditional, arr. M. Penny) – 4:43
Personnel
*Fabrice Martinez - violin
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, violomba
*Ursula Knudson - vocals, violin, musical saw
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, banjolele, percussion
*Douglas Smolens (el Douje) - guitar
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*Aaron Seeman (Duckmandu) - accordion
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* Djordje Stijepovic - upright bass
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Fish
* Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species
Wood
* Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree
Music
* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...
on tracks 1, 2, 4, 9, 11
*Andy Zacharias - upright bass on tracks 3, 5–8, 10, 12
*Mike Penny - Tsugaru shamisen
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(all meaning "three strings"), is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument . It is played with a plectrum called a bachi.
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, guitar
* Kevin Kmetz - additional shamisen tracks on track 4, guitar tracks on track 12
Notes
External links
''Samurai Over Serbia'' at CD BabyOfficial Website
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2007 albums