i found this song by chance, and it followed me through the last days of 2007. couldnt have enough listening. like a charm, it gets under your skin and then takes you off your feet:

[trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/petreradu1/92cd6b2b7aa55a[trilu-audio]

this is how i found TerniPe, a hungarian gypsy music band aiming to find and restore original gypsy music, “unaltered”. there are plenty of such songs – i found them on trilulilu.ro, the romanian version of youtube. search under “ternipe” in audio.

you find stuff like, for example, this:

[trilu-audio]http://www.trilulilu.ro/madimmc/d8e0ea9665c6bc[trilu-audio]