Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – Amarisi
An evening pause: It is interesting to me how similar gypsy music is to Jewish kelzmer music from Eastern Europe.
Hat tip Judd Clark, who adds “She’s got that glow.”
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very nice!
When she lines up with the band to take their bows you can see she is quite short, but somehow she gives the impression of being tall.
Sandra Sangiao : http://www.brspecial.com/spanish-vocalist-barcelona-gypsy-balkan-orchestra-sandra-sangiao.shtml
“The group demands, in addition, to be very attentive with the different languages, because it has to sing in Castilian, Catalan, rom (the language of the gypsies of the East), Serbian, Russian and now in Arabic…”
They have many videos, i like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23dW3H9yFSU
and these two full concerts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCCrLnMUDqk&list=RDxCCrLnMUDqk&start_radio=1&rv=xCCrLnMUDqk&t=16
at the end of this she has the middle aged ladies dancing (at least bouncing up and down) in the aisles, clapping and singing along.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7dAPZ8Qu0Q
The reason this sounds like Klezmer is that it actually is Klezmer, or at least Klezmer-influenced:
“In 2015 the band changed its name from Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra to Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra, keeping BGKO as its acronym.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Gipsy_balKan_Orchestra
Nice find. Thanks for sharing!
Em: Heh. Thank you for that tidbit.