Monthly Archives: July 2014

To Drive Away the Vampires: Music from the Balkans

Originally posted on Thicket & Thorp:
Below is a wonderful sampler of music, via Baltimore-based Canary Records, from across the Balkans, culled from albums produced from the 1930s to the 1970s, so ‘modern,’ but not that far removed from the pre-radio, pre-recording, pre-nationalist past. One of the enduring legacies of the Ottoman Empire is the…