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1	Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006) more music like this by Rodrigo y Gabriela While Rodrigo y Gabriela's self-titled third album is an utter and complete joy to listen to -- actually, it's more of a riotous celebration -- it's more than difficult to describe exactly what they do. This Mexican guitar duo met while in a heavy metal outfit together and soon found the local scene wanting. Both had roots in flamenco and other ... see all copies from $7.98! new only from $9.88!
2	Super Taranta! (2007) more music like this by Gogol Bordello Gogol Bordello is a group that will never slow down. Album after album, show after show, Eugene Hütz and his group of enthusiastic, disheveled gypsies continue to make fantastically inventive, provocative, smart, raucous music that refuses to be categorized or confined. But Gogol Bordello isn't trying to separate itself from the crowd in order to ... see all copies from $9.89! new only from $12.84!
3	Taraf de Haïdouks [Elektra] (1999) more music like this by Taraf de Haïdouks On this Western market debut release of Taraf de Haïdouks, the supergroup of Romanian gypsy music in recent years attempts to represent all of the major styles of Romanian music as well as gypsy musics from surrounding areas. The ability to switch between a heart-wrenching ballad and an ultrafast instrumental romp again and again is really one of ... see all copies from $9.12! new only from $16.85!
4	Multi Kontra Culti Vs. Irony (2002) more music like this by Gogol Bordello The idea of colliding Romany music with punk may at first seem bizarre, but there's more common ground to be found than one might first suspect, not the least of which involves the rejection of authority and dominant cultural norms. Musically, the Romanies' exuberant celebration of life may appear the antithesis of punk's original nihilism, but ... see all copies from $11.11! new only from $11.11!
5	Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike (2005) more music like this by Gogol Bordello These "gypsy punks," as the band jubilantly describes itself, were once precisely that, a spectacular clash of cultures that smashed the exuberance of Ukrainian gypsy music and the pounding rhythms and exhilarating fire of Slavic folk, with the roar of punk rock. That was then, but now globalization has got them in its grip, and Gogol Bordello set ... see all copies from $12.90! new only from $12.90!
6	How It Ends (2004) more music like this by DeVotchKa Listening to DeVotchKa's third album, any aging '80s indie kid will fall into a what-if daydream. Remember when Morrissey broke up the Smiths? Maybe instead of going solo, the Mozzer should have hooked up with Peter Solowka, who at the time was starting up his own solo project outside the confines of the Wedding Present, a tongue-in-cheek blending ... see all copies from $12.46! new only from $12.46!
7	Chasin' the Gypsy (2000) more music like this by James Carter James Carter celebrated 2000 by putting out two vastly different albums at the same time, an amazing concession from a major label for a jazz artist who doesn't sell in Kenny G-like proportions. Chasin' the Gypsy, as you might guess, is an homage to Django Reinhardt, whose music Carter used to dig on Detroit radio when he was a teenager, but ... see all copies from $4.78! new only from $12.91!
8	The Best of Django Reinhardt [Capitol/Blue Note] (1996) more music like this by Django Reinhardt Tread cautiously when the title of an album starts off with the phrase "the best of." It's not that the music on the album will be lacking, but that the introductory phrase is so subjective, it should make a prospective of the album, at the minimum, a bit wary; it would be somewhat more honest to title such compilations "Some of the Best of..." In ... see all copies from $13.53! new only from $14.43!
9	Astrakan Cafe (2001) more music like this by Anouar Brahem The Tunisian oud genius has done it again. Anouar Brahem has issued only five records under his own name over the past decade, each more adventurous than the last, without compromising his original vision: for the music of his region to meet with the other music of Africa and Asia and create a delirious sound that is equal thirds past, present, ... see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98!
10	The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order (2000) more music like this by Django Reinhardt This budget five-disc box collects Reinhardt's first 124 recordings between 1934-1939. Curiously enough, despite the title, these sides aren't chronological, a fact that engineer Ted Kendall admits in the liner notes. Rather, while each disc's featured sessions are presented mostly chronologically, the discs themselves are rather awkwardly ... see all copies from $25.50! new only from $25.50!
11 view cover	East Infection (2005) more music like this by Gogol Bordello see all copies from $4.08! new only from $4.08!
12 view cover	Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares (1990) more music like this by Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir The record that started the boom, this is an excellent introduction to the thrilling Bulgarian women's choir. Myles Boisen, All Music Guide see all copies from $5.04! new only from $15.92!
13 view cover	Verve Jazz Masters 38 (1994) more music like this by Django Reinhardt see all copies from $4.12! new only from $10.29!
14 view cover	Band of Gypsies (2001) more music like this by Taraf de Haïdouks Having appeared at Johnny Depp's Viper Room for the rumored sum of 100,000 dollars as well as in his film The Man Who Cried and as runway models for Yohji Yamamoto, Taraf de Haïdouks would seem to be running the risk of corruption, but their music remains firmly planted in the Romanian gypsy band tradition. On this disc they were recorded live in ... see all copies from $13.81! new only from $13.81!
15 view cover	Morning Star (1997) more music like this by Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen To Western ears, the Hungarian folk music on Morning Star is not as accessible as the Celtic folk which blossomed into ubiquity in the U.S. in the 1990s. But Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen have nonetheless become a comparable international phenomenon, selling out concerts in the most Western of places. Hungarian dance music is no less jubilant than ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $5.83!
16 view cover	Maskarada (2007) more music like this by Taraf de Haïdouks You might expect a Balkan Gypsy dance band to do any number of things -- but tackle a classical program is probably not one of them. Still, the pieces that Taraf de Haïdouks have selected for this album are pretty logical when you think about it, and sound startlingly natural when you actually sit down and listen: Aram Khachaturian's "Lezghinka" ... see all copies from $11.97! new only from $15.13!
17 view cover	Voices of Life (2000) more music like this by Bulgarian Womens Choir The West became aware of the wonderful Bulgarian female choirs through La Mystere des Voix Bulgaires. This is, perhaps, the next step. Produced by former Roxy Music keyboard player Eddie Jobson, this explores the unique harmonies and overtone singing of the voices. In many ways, the singers represent the crossroads between West and East and ... see all copies from $8.40! new only from $14.50!
18 view cover	The Way the Wind Blows (2006) more music like this by A Hawk and a Hacksaw A Hawk and a Hacksaw have fleshed out the Eastern European folk leanings that first appeared on 2005's Darkness at Noon by introducing the liquid band saw violin playing of Heather Trost and the dervish-like cacophony of the gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia. The Way the Wind Blows' spirit may have been bolstered by the authenticity of recording ... see all copies from $13.29! new only from $13.29!
19 view cover	Hot Club of Detroit (2006) more music like this by Hot Club of Detroit The very name of the Hot Club of Detroit is a tip-off to what kind of traditional jazz this Detroit-based sextet plays. Where other jazz combos may devote themselves to Dixieland or bebop, this group hearkens back to the hot dance music and gypsy jazz made by Django Reinhardt; indeed, the group's name is a play on Reinhardt's legendary Hot Club of ... see all copies from $16.21! new only from $16.21!
20 view cover	Curse Your Little Heart (2006) more music like this by DeVotchKa Denver-based cabaret/Gypsy/indie rock collective DeVotchKa's collection of four covers, a traditional piece and one new original puts to shame many artists who have tried to bridge the gap between full-length albums in the past with a hastily thrown together EP. In between a languid and lush version of "I Cried Like a Silly Boy" by Ted Thacker, ... see all copies from $9.01! new only from $9.01!
21 view cover	Djangology/To Bi or Not to Bi (2007) more music like this by Bireli Lagrene Guitarist Bireli Lagrene is one of several European heirs to the tradition of Gypsy swing launched by Django Reinhardt. Lagrene has incredible technique on display through this two-CD set, which compiles a solo concert and a meeting with the WDR Big Band, which have also been released separately. In the solo live set, the guitarist plays ten ... see all copies from $25.74! new only from $25.74!
22 view cover	Borat [Original Soundtrack] (2006) more music like this by Original Soundtrack Sacha Baron Cohen blurs the lines between reality and satire once again on the soundtrack -- or rather, "Stereophonic Musical Listenings That Have Been Origin in Moving Film" -- to Borat. The album mixes authentic Eastern European music, such as Esma Redzepova's "Chaje Shukarije" with Cohen's own twisted songs like the hearty singalong "In My ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $19.75!
23 view cover	Bartók Album (1999) more music like this by Marta Sebestyen/Muzsikas/Alexander Balanescu Marta Sebestyen and Musikas collaborate with violinist Alexander Balanescu on The Bartok Album, a work that traces the Hungarian folk influences on Bela Bartok's compositions. The exhilirating dances performed here display the artists' pride in their Hungarian heritage, as well as the desire to keep it vital and modern -- traits that Bartok also ... see all copies from $6.48! new only from $11.05!
24 view cover	The Best of Marta Sebestyen: Voice of "The English Patient" (1997) more music like this by Márta Sebestyén A smoothly programmed set of 13 tracks drawing from solo recordings and collaborations with Muzsikas and Vujicsics; it also has a brief contribution to the soundtrack to The English Patient, "Lullaby for Katherine." It's not necessarily her best music on purely aesthetic grounds, with several selections boasting the kind of pristine, precise ... see all copies from $4.89!
25 view cover	Tango Bitter Sweet (2006) more music like this by Quadro Nuevo There was a time when doing something experimental in tango could not only result in bad reviews from music critics who didn't understand what you were doing -- it could also result in bodily harm. The late Astor Piazzolla, often hailed as the Charlie Parker of tango, was literally beaten up in the streets of Buenos Aires by opponents who disliked ... see all copies from $14.75! new only from $15.13!

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