Romanian band Balkan Taksim have spent years exploring the folk music of rural villages and updating it for the electronic generation. Now they’re dismayed to see right-wing politicians seeking to ...

Did you know that the author of Albania’s national anthem was a Pole born in Bukovina? Or at least, he had Polish roots. Ciprian Porumbescu, a genius composer and a distant ancestor of the poet ...

The Romanian-American Jazz Suite, by soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Lucian Ban, is another very good example of how the jazz aesthetic of personal expression be applied to other music ...

The article comprises the following main sequences: 1. The overview of the phenomenon manea, a recent product of the contemporary Romanian popular culture. This introductory part describes the main ...