The moment the first guitar chords floated across Camping Colina in Cluj-Napoca, the audience rose almost instinctively - hands in the air, voices joining together long before the chorus arrived.

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 ...

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 ...

It's almost like there's a code embedded in Bartok's field recordings, and when the code comes out, it transforms the music. It transforms us. Ban's playing is at once dynamic, appealing, fun, ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

The collaboration began after Subcarpați’s producer, Marius Andrei Alexe, known as Bean MC, expressed his fascination with Polish folk music. The single also features the voice of Apolonia Nowak, a ...