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- Marin “Tagoi” Sandu (right)
Tomorrow the modest, superb label L-M Dupli-cation—the imprint run by Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk and a Hacksaw—will release Tagoi, a spry and soulful blast of Roma music from Bahto Delo Delo, a group led by accordionist Marin “Tagoi” Sandu. Sandu hails from the Romanian village of Clejani and his father was the brilliant violinist Nicolae Neacsu. Those names might ring a bell if you happen to be a fan of Eastern European Roma music, for it was in Clejani that some Belgian record producers organized a slew of dynamic folk musicians who entertained locals at social functions into a working band called Taraf de Haïdouks; Neacsu was one of the group’s most electrifying and skilled members.
