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The Festival La Mar de Músicas brought yesterday to the Plaza del Ayuntamiento Romanian group Mahala Rai Banda, who offered in our city, and national debut, his only concert in Spain.
Tuba, trumpet, saxophone, accordion, violin and vocals for Mahala Rai Banda (translates as The noble band of gypsy ghetto).
A dozen Gypsy musicians (Lautari) led by the violinist Aurel Ionitsa, creator of Bengal Rom group, and nephew of Nicolae Neacsu unforgettable twentysomethings whose grandchildren now earn a living playing at restaurants and weddings.
The orchestra was formed in the suburbs of Bucharest with musicians from two of the most musical in the world, two people missing, according to the time of year, dust, mud or ice: Zece Prajini, near the border process with Moldova, home of the Fanfare Ciocarlia, and in which, during the Communist dictatorship, their teenagers were sent to the army to get an education and learn to play the trumpets of the regiment, at the height of the Ceaucescu regime would become 30,000 uniformed musicians; Clejani, a town southwest of Bucharest, where in time the Roma were slaves of the boyars, is home to Taraf de Haa ¯ douks, one of those formations marked by the violin and accordion by metals.
Both Ciocarlia and Taraf have contributed decisively to make known the Balkan music and musicians capable of playing at breakneck speeds.
Mahala's second album, Ghetto blasters, was published in 2009, five years after the first, and is a feast of traditional songs Romanian and Moldovan military music with ska, reggae, funk ...
Mahala Rai Banda recordings, remixed and recreated by Nouvelle Vague, Balkan Beat Box, Dj Click, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Russ Jones, Felix B (Basement Jaxx) and Shantel, can be heard on albums by Electric Gypsyland series.
And his Mahalageasca plays on the soundtrack of the movie Borat Sasha Baron Cohen.
For this late evening, at 20.00 hours, the Colombian Cholo Valderrama plays at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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