Transylvanian Portraits (1992)

"This is the soundtrack to a documentary by U.S. public T.V. A professional "folk" ensemble, Okros, from Budapest visited the countryside and played with the village musicians. The gypsy and Hungarian populations live together in the villages, so you can't completely separate the music into groups. Nonetheless, a minority of tracks are strongly gypsy inflected, the majority are of a very purely archaic hungarian nature. The singing tracks using the villagers as singers (about half the tracks) I can't abide, but that is not a value judgement. I truly couldn't say whether they are bad singers, or simply singing in a style that is alien to me. I will say the the few tracks where Marta Sebestyen sings, instead of the actual villagers, I like very much. The five archaic hungarian instrumental tracks are superb." (Amazon).

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