Vinyl tracklist:

A 1 Trenule Mașină Mică 4:35
A 2 Până Când Nu Te Iubeam 5:12
A 3 Aseară Ți-am Luat Basma 4:42
A 4 Dacă Nu Te Cunoșteam 4:47
A 5 Tănănica 1:48
B 1 Luncă, Luncă 5:23
B 2 Mi-am Pus Busuioc În Păr 6:04
B 3 Habar N-ai Tu 4:55
B 4 Cântec De Leagăn 7:11
+ 3 bonus tracks in digital download.

Romanian songs from the repertoire of Maria Tănase (1913-1963)
Maria Tănase is loved in Romania like no singer that has followed her. Even before the Second World War she performed folk songs, tangos, romances, couplets and căntece de mahala, music from the suburbs, in restaurants, in revue theatres and on the radio, usually accompanied by Roma musicians, the lăutari. Tănase developed her own expressive way of interpretation, making songs of every origin her own. Then the iron curtain fell between Eastern and Western Europe. Maria Tănase was increasingly forgotten in Romania throughout the 1960s, because her dramatic doinas or the oriental-sounding songs from the mahala did not fit into the limited concept of man held by certain party officials. Maria Tănase was too much the extravagant diva and individualistic artist to allow herself to be co-opted by the state, let alone move even one millimetre towards mediocrity. And so in June 1963 she was buried like a queen at Bucharest′s Bellu Cemetery. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets for her final journey. It wasn′t until the 1990s before a new light was cast on the legacy of Maria Tănase. She was able to be rediscovered.
In 2013 Romanians are celebrating the centenary of Maria Tănase′s birth. This anniversary inspired the Romanian Oana Cătălina Chiţu, who lives in Berlin, to pay homage to the great singer.
Oana Cătălina Chiţu grew up in northern Romania. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Ceauşescu regime she moved to Berlin. Upon her arrival, she.......
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