Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...

Subject: Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 09:16 AM

For those who have already given the Mudcat CD for Xmas, or Kwansa, or Chanuka, or Dawali, or Ramadan, RUN out and get yourself and your friends any album by Kali Jag, (Black Fire). I first heard them in New Hampsire a few years ago..., played the pipes at a birthday party with them after that, then heard them in New York, and have been just puppies over them ever since. They play the real thing, the internal Romani music you only hear within the community, not the violin music played for the gyjen. Shavali hai Romali! MANUSHEN! Go out and give them a try... you will thank me.
Cheers,
Larry

Subject: RE: Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 09:19 AM

Kalyi Jag forgot the y, sorry... Larry

Subject: RE: Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 09:21 AM

Where can you get their CDs? You ask?! Well,... here is the link to Amazon's order thingee where you get a break if you order them both...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000307K/itsquick/104-3426129-1123136

Subject: RE: Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...
From: mooman
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 10:07 AM

In the same vein may I also recommend a couple of CDs by Tarafs des Haidouks. Very much the real thing.

Thansk Larry,

moo

Subject: RE: Review: The best Roma (Gypsy) band on earth...
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Dec 02 - 02:21 PM

Tarafs des Haidouks, I agree, good band, not as nice folks, personaly, but there you are, but a different kind of Roma music, it is the Roma band music, where Kalyi Jag is the singing that would be done around the fire in a circle of Voodrona. After posting this, I was working with a Polish fellow, who spoke almost no English, who said he liked Klesmer, so I put on Kalyi Jag for him, and he was really shocked I had Roma music here, (then I showed him my political posters!) Well, he told me the most touching telling of the story of Paposa, I ever heard. Paposa, for those who don't know, was a polish Romni (Gypsy woman) who was a great poet. She unwittingly aided the Polish government in a program of forced assimilation, then when she saw the results lost her mind.
He said... Paposa... Gypsy... then made as if to write to say she was a writer, then said, "I read," then he dragged his fingers down his cheeks to show her words moved him to tears.
Cheers all,
Larry