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FANFARE CIOCARLIA
Kubelíkova 27, Praha 3, PRAHA
300 CZK /stání a 350 CZK /sezení. Na místě: 400 / 450,- CZK
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THE FASTEST BRASS BAND IS COMING TO PRAGUE TO PRESENT ITS FIRST LIVE ALBUM AND SELECTION ALBUM CALLED “THE BEST OF GYPSY BRASS”
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THE FASTEST BRASS BAND IS COMING TO PRAGUE TO PRESENT ITS FIRST LIVE ALBUM AND SELECTION ALBUM CALLED “THE BEST OF GYPSY BRASS”
A brass music band? In contrast to its Central European form this genre roisters with totally different rhythms, colours and temperament in the east of Europe. Balkan brass bands play at breathtaking pace, their music is intoxicated by fiery wine, home-made rakija with a gypsy feeling, while the other ingredients are still waiting to be discovered. When in the year 1864 the gypsy vassals were freed in Romania, thousands of them left for the USA, where they settled in Afro-American ghettos. “Who dares to claim that our fellow-tribesmen were not helping to invent jazz in America?”, says Ioan, the oldest member of Fanfare. Fanfare Ciocarlia were awarded a prestigious genre prize the BBC World Music Award in the year 2006.
The roots of Balkan brass bands date back to the Osman Empire and draw from the style of Turkish military bands. The dominant instrument of this “Turkish music” was originally “zurna”, a pipe similar to oboe, which was able to break through even the loudest noises of battle due to its sharp sound. In the 18th century the military bands replaced the contemporary oriental instruments by European ones, but fortunately they kept the original Turkish way of playing. This distinctive music was presented to the international audience in the year 1995 in the film “Underground” by a Bosnian film producer Emir Kusturica.The Romanian band Fanfare Cioacarlia represents the fastest band in its genre. Journalists are provided with an impressive comparison to the “Sex Pistols”, a famous English punk rock band, which not only played frantically and fast, but did not even acknowledge any other pace.
The band comes from the village Zece Prajini (“Ten Fields”), which is located at the northeast edge of Romania, at the very border with Moldavia. Romania is due to language relation a frequent destination of visitors from francophone countries – and the word Fanfare in the band's name is a French expression for a brass band. The second part of the name is veiled with a bit bigger mystery.
Ciocarlia means “a little skylark” in Romanian language, but at the same time it is a name of of one of the most played Romanian folk melodies, in which the official folklore ensembles have been showing their virtuosity for decades. The originally idyllic evergreen did not eventually evade the vicious attention of Emir Kusturica and his musical partner Goran Bregovič, who used it in the above mentioned film “Underground” under the title “Kalashnikov”. Fanfare Ciocarlia play the composition in its original, non-embellished form, as it can still be heard at wild wedding dance parties in Eastern Europe.
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