"Thanks for your musical archeology and restoration work. It's top notch!" - a leading musicologist
Balkan Records is a division of Esoteric Sound that produces Folk Music and various esoteric recordings. We specialize in music of the ethnic American Slavs, and Eastern European Bluegrass, but have a smattering of others too. Our main body of work is re-releasing records from the old Balkan Records Company of Chicago. All of our recordings are of the highest quality and where necessary, employ sophisticated digital editing and noise reduction systems, such as CEDAR.
We are also interested in any old recordings of this type that you may have. As masters for most vintage ethnic recordings are non-existent, we welcome vintage records for use in these project.
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LIVE AT THE RAFTERS-THE POPOVICH BROTHERS TAMBURITZA ORCHESTRA VOL 2!
AMERICAN POLONIA, 1930-1955
BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTATIQUE, Wallenstein/Virtuoso Symphony of London
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Live 1937 Radio Broadcast. This is the first time ever release of the live radio coverage at its correct pitch. Newly restored with digital technology from original source material. Includes bonus track of interview with the restorers. | ||
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Ca 1985 Serbo-Croatian tamburitza folk music by Balkan Strings and Sar Plamina featuring Marty Kapugi and Mel Dokich. All radio broadcasts originating from Chicago, but heard through out much of UAS. Stereo, HiFi sound. CLICK FOR CONTENTS | ||
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1st reissue of US, Serbo-Croatian folk music, featuring The Gary Serenaders and others. 25 tracks from 1940's Balkan Records singles and including 3 never-before released bonus tracks from Balkan. Digitally restored. CLICK FOR CONTENTS |
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1st reissue of US, Serbo-Croatian folk music, featuring Dave Zupkovich and other. 22 tracks from 1940's Balkan records singles and including 4 bonus tracks from Balkan's "Custom Series". Digitally restored. CLICK FOR CONTENTS
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1st reissue of US, Serbo-Croatian
folk music, featuring Dave Zupkovich and other. 22
tracks from 1940's Balkan records singles and including 4 bonus tracks
from Balkan's "Custom Series". Digitally restored.
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1st reissue of US, Serbo-Croatian
folk music, featuring Dave Zupkovich and other. 22
tracks from 1940's Balkan records singles and including 4 bonus tracks
from Balkan's "Custom Series". Digitally restored. | ||
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Two groups from the South
Chicago and Gary area perform in never before available recordings. Home
recordings of rehearsal and live performance. Digitally restored to best
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Croatian and Serbian-American comedy skits from 1920's commercial recordings. 13 tracks, includes Adamov & Comapany, Maksim Pridic, and Dusan Jovanovich & His Orao Ensemble. Mostly in Serbo- Croatian. CLICK FOR CONTENTS | ||
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Live 1961 recordings from the Chase Hotel in St Louis, Missouri. Performers are Ljubomir Jakovac, Svetozar Tomich, Paul Maricic, Nikola Jakovac, and Anton Chernich. These sixteen recordings are available for the first time ever and in hifi sound. | ||
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YOUR FAVORITE BALALAIKA SERENADE A group of selections, such as Croatian Dance, Vadar March, Dalmatian Melodies played by the Sava Vukosavljev Tamburitza Orchestra of Radio Novi Sad. 12 selections in digitally enhanced, genuine mono hifi sound. CLICK FOR CONTENTS | ||
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WEHRMACHT - SONGS OF THE GERMAN ARMY 1933 - 45 16 selections of historical music from rare Magnetofon recordings off the German radio. Music of various German armed forces’ marching bands. These recordings were basically smuggled out of Germany in the 1960a. Offensive lyrics. | ||
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WHEELS a - ROLLING - MUSIC PAGEANT FROM 1948 CHICAGO RAILROAD FAIR Music from outdoor pageant featuring railroad engines, horses, cars with singers and musicians from Chicago. All 12 scenes along with the Prologue and Epilogue are presented in CEDAR digitally restored sound. Made on location at the fair, on Chicago’s lakefront. | ||
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THE POPOVICH BROTHERS - LIVE AT THE RAFTERS | ||
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THE DAWN OF STEREO - AN MP3 DEMO SEE CONTENTS - CLICK HERE A nostalgic audio Odyssey from mono to stereo in audiophile sound. Drawn from audio demo recordings and experimental stereo recordings from the 30's through the 50's. THIS RECORDING PLAYS ON MANY DVD PLAYERS THAT PLAY MP3, OR ON YOUR COMPUTER. |
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| A Library of Folk Music Links | http://www.folklib.net/ |
| Folk Music - An Index to Recorded Resources | http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex/ |