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Wallachian wedding music by the Teleorman Gypsy Musicians -
Cântări de nuntă de pe Vlasca si Teleorman
(Cassette C-008)
Musicians:
Vasile Dinu - voice, cimbalom
Ionel Stoica - voice, vioara
Andrei Dinu - voice, vioara
Daniel Lacatus - vioara
Marian Vlad - contrabass
'Marsa is a Danubian village lying not far from Bucharest and some 10 km
from Clejani, the native locality of the musicians who have earned fame
in Europe as the Taraf de Haidouks. The whole region of Vlasca is known
for its vivid, heartfelt music most of which is improvised and which the
West views as Gypsy music due to its note of oriental sensuality
(specific, in fact, to much of the Lower Danube Plain). The instruments
of the traditional ensemble are violin, small dulcimer, accordion and
double bass. The instrumentalists are also vocalists. The musicians
(called 'lautari') play and sing lyrical tunes, 'long songs - doina'
with lyrics evoking passionate love, ballads, nuptial songs (for the
bridegroom, the bride, the godparents, the ritual fir-tree etc.) and
dance tunes.
The Roma musicians of the Marsa ensemble have been lautari from
generation to generation. They live amid the Romanian community and are
appreciated for their honesty, hard work, and virtuosity. Most Saturdays
and Sundays except during the major Christian fasting periods (before
Easter and Christmas, for instance) villagers hire them to play at
weddings, baptisms, birthday and other family parties, as well as at
pastoral or agrarian feasts. Yet it is at weddings that they are at
their best. Here they play for hours , passionately and with great
skill. sometimes staging fierce vocal contests that delight the
audience.
Unlike their neighbours and friends from Clejani, the musicians of Marsa
cannot speak Romani or play the specific tunes of the Roma people living
in this area. They consider themselves to be 'disclosed Gypsies,' that
is people of undoubted Roma ancestry but who have long been integrated
in the Romanian community. They have not had stable relations except
with the Roma people in their trade. But then neither do they think of
themselves as Romanians. Truth is the musicians of Marsa are people with
a twofold identity. The most solid link to the Roma ethnic group is that
of their doing music for a living, their devotion and talent in this
respect being worthy of admiration.'
Courtesy of Costin Moilsil - Ethnophonie
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Wallachian wedding music by the Teleorman Gypsy Musicians -
Cântări de nuntă de pe Vlasca si Teleorman -
(Cassette C-008)
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Tracks |
Side A |
| 1. Ritual de nunta: Cantecul ginerelui (3'03") |
| 2. Ritual de nunta: Cantecul bradului (5'03") |
| 3. Ritual de nunta: Hora bradului (1'22") |
| 4. Ritual de nunta: Nuneasca (3'39") |
| 5. Doina si melodie di joc (7'39") |
| 6. Cantec de dragoste (7'53") |
Side B |
| 1. Cantec batranesc (12'56") |
| 2. Melodii de joc (2'38") |
| 3. Cantec de dragoste (5'20") |
| 4. Cantec de dragoste (4'48") |
| 5.Melodie de joc (2'39") |
Duration (58'00") |
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