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Kefi Kefi (2011)
Kefi Kefi is also a live recording but this time in a more controlled setting than a concert hall. Early 2010 the band hired an old wooden hall from the local chess club in Wageningen and set up there for 4 days. The sessions have resulted in a sound that drifts away from the predominately Balkan influences of their previous work, into regions further south; Afghanistan, Anatolia, Turkey and beyond.
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Mangupi (2009)
By 2007/2008 the band had acquired their own mobile recording studio and had begun making professional recordings of their live shows in theaters. This sounds easier that it really was! The amount of gear they were carrying around to these shows was an obscene amount of work and the sound-checking would generally take an entire afternoon and half of the evening. Mangupi is a compilation of live recordings, lifted mainly from concerts in Germany during a tour in 2008. It is an honest and utterly convincing representation of what the band is capable of in concert.
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Bizoagor (2006)
This is a project that bandleader Marc Constandse composed with and activist Gjunler Abdula as a benefit for Rroma Emancipatie. The proceeds of this album went into printing school books for the Rroma children of Sjutka in Macedonia. The big studio sound and cinematic atmosphere of the album was a departure from the regular live sound of the band and recordings till now, but again Parne Gadje garnered loads of great reviews with this CD and it added to their reputation as musical explorers without limits. Performances at the International Gypsy Festival and the famous Crossing Borders Festival began to cement the groups position around this period.
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O Manus (2004)
This album represents a massive leap forward in sound quality as well as quite a radical step sideways in style. Guitarist Michiel Hollanders really comes to the foreground with his dynamic playing and it is on this album that we hear reed instruments in the bands sound for the first time. Enter saxophone and clarinet player Gerwil Kusters. The dynamic sparkling Balkan influenced sound of “O Manus” generated loads of critical praise in the Netherlands and the album gained the front cover of the popular national alternative music magazine Platomania as CD of the month.
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Isi Li Vilo Akate (2003)
Recorded at the beginning of the bands existence on very rudimentary recording equipment this album clearly shows that Parne Gadje have always had a sense of musical adventure. The line-up of the group at this stage was Marc Constandse (bandoneon/vocals/percussion), Murray Campbell (violin) and Dan Tuffy (guitar). Guitarist/sound engineer Michiel Hollanders joined the group towards the end of these recordings and helped the band finish the album. By the time the group was out promoting the CD he was a full-time member. Violinist Murray Campbell (unfortunately) left the group to follow his Californian hippy girlfriend off to the Nevada foothills. The cover of the album is a picture of the trailer where bandleader Marc Constande was living at the time. All proceeds of this album went to Roma Emancipatie – a foundation set up to help the children of Sjutka in Macedonoia, the largest Roma community in the world |
