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November 2009 
Roma Recyclers
Posted on Jul 5th, 2008
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The Gypsy Chronicles
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Pretty Dyana - A Gypsy recycling saga
Access: PublicMadonna es Gypsy!
Posted on Jul 21st, 2008
by The Gypsy Chronicles
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Madonna Kolpakov Ensemble&E
Every twenty five or fifty years Gypsy music becomes 'fashionable' again...
And when Madonna takes an interest in Gypsy music
it would seem to follow that many more in America will also.
I posted this picture in a blog on Myspace and the response
from younger American women to Madonna's Gypsy style reminded me
(in a different way but similar) to the way American women a generation
older took to Stevie Nicks who although did not perform with Gypsy musicians
like Madonna, sang a song about Gypsies, wore some Gypsy clothes,
and somehow in the process came to represent "Gypsy" for a great many in
America.
...Does it matter that neither woman is in posession of Gypsy DNA?
Not at all. It would seem that the symbolism is powerful enough on its own
, for some. There was a telling and great excitement surroun
ding this image...which I found on Vadim Kolpakov's very interesting and content rich website.
And when Madonna takes an interest in Gypsy music
it would seem to follow that many more in America will also.
I posted this picture in a blog on Myspace and the response
from younger American women to Madonna's Gypsy style reminded me
(in a different way but similar) to the way American women a generation
older took to Stevie Nicks who although did not perform with Gypsy musicians
like Madonna, sang a song about Gypsies, wore some Gypsy clothes,
and somehow in the process came to represent "Gypsy" for a great many in
America.
...Does it matter that neither woman is in posession of Gypsy DNA?
Not at all. It would seem that the symbolism is powerful enough on its own
, for some. There was a telling and great excitement surroun
ding this image...which I found on Vadim Kolpakov's very interesting and content rich website.
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Muro Shavo the original gipsy song..
MURO SHAVO....
I was playing the famous Gypsy song, Muro Shavo, on the stereo one day.
Loud!
The windows were open wide and so the sounds met with the ears of my neighbor, who worked in his garden.
Well!
Next thing I knew there was a loud rapping upon my door.
I opened it. It was my neighbor, spade in hand.
"What is that music you are playing?!" He demanded.
"Oh, is it too loud? I will turn it down for you happily," said I.
He shook his head, "No don't turn it down! What is it?"
And he smiiiiled.
I had never before seen this man smile. Ever!
"Its Gypsy music! You like?"
"I love!" He cried. "I've never before heard anything like it!"
You have to understand that his son had died in auto accident a few years before, and since that time, he had been walking around like a dead man.
But, when he heard the muscular and cheerful strains of Muro Shavo, the sounds traveled a straight path to his heart, piercing it, and creating within him a pleasurable rattling of joy, reminding him of the great beauty of life!
The power of Muro Shavo made part the clouds and a great light filled his spirit. He was alive! Muro Shavo!
Seguiriya / Seguirilla
Posted on Jul 31st, 2008
by The Gypsy Chronicles
The Gypsy Chronicles
Lorca wrote: The Gypsy Seguiriya starts with a terrible shout -
a shout that divides the scenery in two equal hemispheres...
next the voice stops to let in an impressive silence.
The sequiriya burns the throat and the tongue of those
who sing it, and is used as a tonic to express fury.
Here in Tony Gatlif's classic film Latcho Drom,
La Caita performs a seguiriya - expressing powerful feelings...
a shout that divides the scenery in two equal hemispheres...
next the voice stops to let in an impressive silence.
The sequiriya burns the throat and the tongue of those
who sing it, and is used as a tonic to express fury.
Here in Tony Gatlif's classic film Latcho Drom,
La Caita performs a seguiriya - expressing powerful feelings...
Latcho Drom, La Ca?ta, "El p?jaro negro"
You Tube Notes: La Caíta, standing on a hillside overlooking new housing,
a place where she will probably never live.
She sings a heartbreaking song, The Blackbird,
that will resonate with the poor, the disenfranchised,
the persecuted, or anyone who has
been on the outside looking in. ¡Qué tristeza!
a place where she will probably never live.
She sings a heartbreaking song, The Blackbird,
that will resonate with the poor, the disenfranchised,
the persecuted, or anyone who has
been on the outside looking in. ¡Qué tristeza!
