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Nightlosers

By The World ⋅ March 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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NightlosersHere’s a crazy ethno-musicology hypothetical for you: what would have happened if slaves from Africa had been taken not to the Americas, but to the Balkans? This is the Romanian band Nightlosers. They’re very popular in Romania. It’s not uncommon to find blues bands in many parts of the world. People around the planet just love the blues. But Nightlosers pull off a more nuanced trick.


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7 comments for “Nightlosers”

  • http://squeezemylemon.blogspot.com/ Fitzgerald

    Thanks for covering blues music from other places in the world. I would really enjoy hearing more reports on how the blues is played and listening to in other places around the world. Please keep up the good work.

  • Kevin

    Marco, one hypohesis for a lack of accent when singers sing, is that singing is its own language with its own accent. So when people sing, or sing a specific genre really well, they can’t help but fall into the new accent. But at the same time, singers don’t recongize their new accent, but see it as an extension of their native language. I think NPR did a story on this about 10 years ago under the theme of why British singers lose their accent when they sing. Ironically, from a British perspective Americans lose their accent when they sing.

  • Irish

    Heard the program. Dug Nightlosers music. Searched for sources. Can find none. Received pop up “Not available in your country.” Hoping this is not permanent. Any info?

  • Bela

    I appreciate your coverage of this – I had never heard of them and I really like them. I do have one “get your facts straight” correction though – Transylvania, where the band hails from, is NOT the Balkans. In the interview, the band leader himself refers to the Romanian and Hungarian influences, both of which you can clearly hear in their music (and which are quite different from Balkan music).

    • vlad

      true

  • http://www.nightlosers.ro vlad

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