Saturday, July 24, 2021

Roma

 Another song from the Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra.  Someone posted below the video the following text explaining the derivation of the music:

"About this extraordinary and wonderful song: the first part of the song (00:00 - 2:25) is by Saban Bajramovic, called 'Opa cupa' (only music; the text was afterwards written by Marija Kovacevic in the Serbian language). Šaban Bajramović was a Serbian-Romani musician known as the 'King of Roma Music.'

The second part (2:25 - 4:30) is the song ¡Ai Carmela! - one of the most famous songs of the Spanish Republican troops during the Spanish Civil War. This song refers to the Battle of Ebro (one of the most important rivers on the Iberian Peninsula). As the Danube is the most important river in Serbia (and Europe), BGKO has merged two distant countries, cultures and the whole of Europe with this song. That's why I am extremely grateful. Viva la musica! Greetings from Serbia!"

And so, the song itself, and the fulfillment of my promise to provide something a little more lively by this group of musicians, truer to their collective musical nature.





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