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Which has been ranked the best gypsy band, Taraf de Haïdouks The will come to the Sea of Music on Wednesday July 15 to replace the Brazilian Vanessa Da Mata, which has suspended its Spanish tour.
The performance of the Taraf de Haïdouks be in the Park of Artillery at 23:00.
Tickets cost 15 Euros.
Those who have bought tickets Vanessa Da Mata and do not want to attend a concert of Romanians will be refunded the money.
For centuries in many regions of Romania, the traditional music and dances have accompanied the most important moments in life.
In no birth, no baptism, no marriage has missed the presence of a band of musicians to interpret songs that their ancestors were passed from generation to generation.
The Taraf de Haïdouks are a dozen gypsy musicians from a village in Romania called Clejani.
The members of this band, whose ages range from 20 to 80 years, never had the opportunity to leave their home until two foreign musicians (Stéphane Karo and Michel Winter) knew them and were thrilled with the idea to make this music to the world.
One of them, Karo, went to Romania with the intention of getting to know the music I ever heard in a record shop in Brussels.
In Clejani met Nicolae Neacsu, a living encyclopedia of Romanian folklore who lived alone in a bathroom stall.
He was surprised by the interest shown by the newcomer, he recorded, so precarious, some traditional music with young musicians.
However, just at that moment began the revolution that would end after the fall of Ceacescu, and for that reason were prevented to realize a professional recording.
In 1990, when the political situation calmed down, Karo and Winter traveled to Clejani and, after meeting other musicians in the region, decided to organize a European tour with new band they called Taraf de Haïdouks (taraf is a Turkish word designating a group of musicians and Haïdouks were some legendary Robin Hood-style bandits, heroes in medieval ballads).
The producers chose six musicians for the tour, including Neacsu and Ion Manole, a singer who surprised by the modulation of his voice.
But pressure from the rest of the villagers made to increase the number of members up to a dozen.
This tour marked the first recording contract with the Belgian label Crammed Discs.
The band's debut album, 'Musique des Tziganes of Roumanie', quickly climbed to the top positions in the European world music chart.
This album allowed them to enter in the western world's wealth and the pace of Romanian gypsy music, dazzling and amazing in every show at festivals, concert halls and clubs across Europe.
Played an important role in the film 'Latch Drom "by director Tony Gatlif.
Two years later in Romania recorded their second album, "Honourable Brigands, Magic Horses and Evil Eye ', which was well received by critics in Germany to be voted as best world music album.
The next, 'Dumbala Dumba' was recorded in a house in the late '97 Clejani.
Despite this success, during each break, the members return to his people continued their usual lifestyle.
Even still exist in all those events of everyday life in the region.
A curious fact: Taraf members have participated in parades in Paris as models of clothing with some prestigious designers.
Taraf path also includes an interest in the soundtrack of the film 'The Man Who Cried' directed by Sally Potter.
Come to Cartagena Maskarada present his latest work, which is the first studio album of this training from Band Of Gypsies (2001) and it is near the world of classical music.
Here the group leader of the Balkan gypsy folk goes to a series of classical composers transformed some of their key pieces of reinterpretation based on flute, violin, accordion, clarinet, double bass and Cymbalum.
Béla Bartok (Ostinato & Romanian Dance), Manuel de Falla (Ritual Fire Dance), Isaac Albeniz (Asturias) and Alfred Ketelbey (In a persian market) would be proud of those contagious Taraf de Haïdouks versions have made their works, giving them of magic and festive spirit that the original lacked.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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