Night of the Gypsies: update
How insulting! Putting Fanfare Ciocarlia before Gitans the Perpignan on the schedule and finishing the concert at 22.30h... I might go as well to the other but less known Night of the Gypsies in Turnhout: is is cheaper and it features also our own belgian gypsy-influenced band "Mec Yek" which means "another one!". It's in De Warande in a city called Turnhout (near Antwerp) on 4th of March and starts at 7 pm. Fanfare Ciocarlia is scheduled at 10 pm so I hope they will go on all night!
On the Musical level, the atmosphere of the Slovakian Roma and the energy of the Rakusatar!-tours are freely translated. The traditional songs were interpreted and rearranged, which leads Mec Yek off the traditional beaten track. Mec Yek plays halgads (slow, sad melodies) and cardasses (fast, rhythmical dances and songs), alternated with instrumental pieces from Rumania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. The songs are sung in Romanes (a gipsy language). They're basically local gipsy evergreens, with lyrics speaking of everyday gipsy reality. "Pankatsa", for example, is about how Roma fear the racial attacks of the Slovakian Skinheads. Other songs are about the harsh conditions in which gipsies have to survive. But there are also more lighthearted subjects, like love, in songs like "Caje Caje" and "Andre M'ri Barol".
Mec Yek is also giving a free concert in the KultuurKaffee at the Vrije Univeristeit Brussel on 30.04.2006
more informations about Mec yek
more information about the concert and reservations : www.warande.be
On the Musical level, the atmosphere of the Slovakian Roma and the energy of the Rakusatar!-tours are freely translated. The traditional songs were interpreted and rearranged, which leads Mec Yek off the traditional beaten track. Mec Yek plays halgads (slow, sad melodies) and cardasses (fast, rhythmical dances and songs), alternated with instrumental pieces from Rumania, Bulgaria and Macedonia. The songs are sung in Romanes (a gipsy language). They're basically local gipsy evergreens, with lyrics speaking of everyday gipsy reality. "Pankatsa", for example, is about how Roma fear the racial attacks of the Slovakian Skinheads. Other songs are about the harsh conditions in which gipsies have to survive. But there are also more lighthearted subjects, like love, in songs like "Caje Caje" and "Andre M'ri Barol".
Mec Yek is also giving a free concert in the KultuurKaffee at the Vrije Univeristeit Brussel on 30.04.2006
more informations about Mec yek
more information about the concert and reservations : www.warande.be
posted by Jakov @ 12:33 p.m.
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