 1. Pajdushko 2. Baba Dzhurdzha 3. Tale Ognenovski 4. Sandansko 5. Mashkato 6. Maleshevsko 7. Veleshko 8. Topansko 9. Rajkos 10. Eleven-eight 11. Beranche 12. Ruchenitsa 13. Baj Georgi Chochek 14. Idi da go sakash, Mamo and Lesno inst. (with vocal) 15. Kopanitsa Buy songs at | Adam Good Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans © 2002 Folksounds Records "...an exquisite, elaborately elegant album of acoustic folk music." CD Baby Released on Folksounds Records. Recorded and produced entirely by Adam Good, a New York based musician (bass player for HARMONIA, guitarist in NIKITOV and SIDESHOW) fascinated by Eastern European music and in particular Izvorno (folk music) of Macedonia. Eastern melodies accompanied by meditative drones with quirky odd meter rhythms. Every track features Adam and special guests on folk instruments playing familiar traditional tunes (Pajdushko, Mashkato, Baba Dzhurdzha, Rajkos, Topansko) and original melodies in rhythms of the region (Beranche, Chochek, Ruchenitsa). |  Adam Good has lent his quick ears and musicality to numerous Eastern European and Jazz projects. A graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music with a concentration in jazz guitar, he has lived in New York City since 1996. As early as 1994, he developed a parallel interest in Eastern European folk, Greek, and Turkish classical music and is now well-known for his versatility in performing on a variety of stringed instruments including the acoustic bass, tambura, and Turkish ud and cümbüs. Adam plays in the New York area with groups such as Hazmat, Sukunet, Sideshow (Songs of Charles Ives), and Sheqer and around the United States with Harmonia (Traditional Crossroads CD). He has also toured the country with Macedonian kaval master Angele Dimovski and in 2002 released his Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans (Folksounds Records). Adam teaches privately and has taught Macedonian tambura at the EEFC's Balkan Music and Dance Camp. |
