Description
Dos Tsigayner
Flytifólk capture the bitter-sweet music of home-coming. Based in Tórshavn, Anna, Daniel, James and Torleik have all travelled ‘from away’, and their debut album celebrates lives made in distant lands, by those who have been displaced, sometimes willingly, and sometimes not. They gather klezmer tunes and music from the Balkans and elsewhere, old scores that they adapt to their distinctive musical style, expressing the wistful, heartfelt emotions of separation while retaining the joy and playfulness that comes with making a life on new soil. Flytifólk recorded the album in the reconstructed historic home of Nólsoyar Páll, one of the Faroe Islands’ greatest sailors, a man who brought ideas from across the sea and made them his own in these rugged islands where the wind and the rain create a natural, sometimes wild, rhythm.
Dos Tsigayner (The Gypsy) was first recorded in New York in 1939 by Al Glaser and the Bukovina Kapelle, an all-star band of immigrant klezmer musicians. The story of Al Glaser’s life is worthy of a novel: born in Czernovitz in Bukovina (present-day Ukraine) in 1898, he joined the Austrian army in 1916, was taken prisoner to Irkutsk in Siberia, joined a Soviet opera company as a violinist after the First World War, jumped ship while on tour in Shanghai in 1922 and emigrated to the USA.
Released on the following formats:
Digitally on all major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.).
You can check it out by using this link: https://bfan.link/dos-tsigayner-flytifolk
