01/02/2009 Taraf De Haïdouks @ VK, schoolstraat 76 rue l'ecole, 1080 Brussels + DJ Gaetano Fabri
Doors 20h entrance 17€ / 20€
The Taraf de Haïdouks - the name literally translates as "band of honourable brigands" - are a bunch of extraordinary and colourful characters, who have managed to convince the audiences of the biggest World Music festivals. "Their wild energy is the essence of gypsy music ... their set seemed like the bubbling source of 20th century rhythm ... they spun out cadences that recalled bebop, salsa, and the polyrhythms of Zimbabwe and Nigeria" (The New York Times), "the band that's wowing London" (The Evening Standard, 7 June 2001) through their rhythmically complex songs with grace, easy camaraderie and sense of mischief wins over everybody in concerts.
Along with these ambitious compositions one will rediscover with great pleasure the fantastic atmosphere of a Taraf de Haïdouks live performance in a collection of previously-unrecorded pieces featuring the various singers and soloists in top form and particularly galvanized by the importance of the event. These were indeed the band's first ever concerts in the Romanian capital; after ten years of international success the Taraf were still not recognized in their own country (maybe because they were perceived as Gypsies rather than as musicians).
hey nervine, thank you for your request! and wow - your tunes are awesome! i really enjoy listening to your soundscapes. it's like you dip movies shot in your head into a kind of metaphysical function. :) keep on doing your great and outstanding work! and have a happy and successful zeronine!
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