Romania

Romania (Romanian: România) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate, and an area of 238,397 km2 (92,046 sq mi), with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the twelfth-largest country in Europe and the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Sibiu, Brașov, and Galați.
==Links to Peel==
Peel seemed to have been first exposed to Romanian music when he discovered its music from the BBC Archives in the late 60's and would play some of it on his shows, which were mainly classical and folk instrumentals. Some of them were added to the John Peel's Archive Things compilation album, released in 1970.
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Gheorghe Zamfir, a Romanian pan flute musician, had his music played on Peel's shows in 1976. His track, 'Doina De Jale' was played on Peel's programme and later became a top ten hit single in the UK singles chart, peaking at number 4 in September of that year. The song was largely popular, due to its theme tune on the BBC documentary, 'The Light Of Experience'.
Peel obtained some Romanian cimbolam music, released on the Electrecord label and played some it on his shows during the late 80's and early 90's, especially from artists such as Formația Constantin Hațeg, Ion Peptenar and Toni Iordache.
In 1990, Peel interviewed Ionel Dumitrascu about Romanian music on his 14 October 1990 show and played three tracks from Romanian rock artists. The music played were generally of a soft/hard rock genre and weren't generally the type Peel played. Not surprisingly, none of those artists played on that show had any further airplays by Peel.
Romanian poetry was broadcast on Peel's show on 15 April 1994 and during the late 90's and early 00's, Peel played some Romanian Gypsy folk music from Taraf De Haïdouks.
== See Also ==
*George Metaxa
*Mukka
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
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