The Violin

I’m very happy that a violinist from The Netherlands, Oorlab (Dick Vestdijk), added his talent to one of my tracks of my Gypsy swing project GITANE FRITS:

My friend Andrey Shilov writes: The title of the composition is “Dorogoy dlinnoyu” which means “By a long road…” or the English version is “Those were the days”. The author of the music is Boris Fomin – a great musician who was hated by Stalinists.
related:
1)
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/those-were-the-days/
2)
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/dimitris-dance/
3)
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/discussing-gypsy-problems/

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