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Gas Nign & Makedonsko Devojce

from More Bad News .​.​. by Broadside Electric

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Two tunes glued together! The first is an untitled Jewish melody. "Gas Nign" is a common heading for many tunes, being Yiddish for "street tune." This one was indeed taken from a live performance in the streets of Tiraspol, Ukraine. It was transcribed in 1937 by Moshe Beregovski, who collected thousands of pieces of Jewish folk music while employed at the Ukranian Academy of Sciences. We found it in Mark Slobin's Old Jewish Folk Music.

The second is a song from Macedonia. We didn't bother with the words, since we're totally unfamiliar with the language. The title means "Macedonian Girl," and the lyrics remind us of the Beach Boys. We took this tune from the Geisler transcriptions.

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from More Bad News .​.​., released June 18, 1996
(trad. & trad.)

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Broadside Electric Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Broadside Electric is a five-piece electric folk band from Philadelphia, PA (US). They have earned a reputation for thoroughly original arrangements and painstaking research into traditional English, Celtic and Eastern European music. Broadside Electric has been at turns called “Pennsylvania’s answer to Steeleye Span” and “folk music’s answer to death metal.” ... more

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