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Nicolae Guță would go on to release dozens of volumes, but Vol. 2 remains a blueprint. It captured a moment in time when the music was still "underground," played at weddings and distributed via street-corner tapes, long before it became a multi-million dollar industry. If you want to understand where the soul of modern Balkan music comes from, you have to start here. Nicolae Guta - vol.2 (1993)
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