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Το είχαμε εκεί το 2010 κι εκεί το 2012 αλλά πάπαλα, γι' αυτό ορίστε η επετειακή έκδοση ενός αριστουργήματος, με ένα μικρό ποίημα από τον Μόρισον στην αρχή και μικροδιαφορές στην παραγωγή από την εκδοχή του δίσκου.
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Από τα ανάλεκτα, στο Fire, Water, Burn των Bloodhound Gang (Gulf Oil reggae version):
Yeah, I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye
But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don't shine
Cause you're kind of like Han Solo always stroking your own wookie
I'm the root of all that's evil, yeah, but you can call me cookie
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Summertime (the Balkan way) - Fanfare Ciocărlia
Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Balkan Brass Band/Romani brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. The band began as a loose assemblage of part-time musicians playing at local weddings and baptisms. In October 1996, the German sound engineer and record producer Henry Ernst visited Zece Prajini and convinced a number of the musicians there to assemble a touring band. These musicians decided to name the band Fanfare Ciocărlia: Fanfare being a French word that has passed into Romanian and is used to designate a brass band; Ciocărlia being the Romanian word for the skylark. [...]
Romani | English translation by Ronald Lee
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Djelem, djelem, lungone dromensa | I have travelled over long roads
Maladilem baxtale Romensa | I have met fortunate Roma
Djelem, djelem, lungone dromensa | I have travelled far and wide
Maladilem baxtale Romensa. | I have met lucky Roma
Ay, Romale, Ay, Chavale, | Oh, Romani adults, Oh Romani youth
Ay, Romale, Ay, Chavale. |Oh, Romani adults, Oh Romani youth
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Ay Romale, katar tumen aven | Oh, Roma, from wherever you have come
Le tserensa baxtale dromensa |With your tents along lucky roads
Vi-man sas u bari familiya |I too once had a large family
Tai mudardya la e kali legiya. | But the Black Legion murdered them
Aven mansa sa lumiake Roma | Come with me, Roma of the world
Kai putaile le Romane droma | To where the Romani roads have been opened
Ake vryama – ushti Rom akana | Now is the time – stand up, Roma,
Ame xutasa mishto kai kerasa. | We shall succeed where we make the effort
Ay, Romale, Ay Chavale | Oh, Roma adults, Oh, Roma youth
Ay, Romale, Ay Chavale | Oh, Roma adults, Oh, Roma youth
Gelem, Gelem is a song composed by Žarko Jovanović, often used as the anthem of the Romani people. The title has been adapted in many countries by local Roma to match their native orthography and spoken dialect of the Romani language. Some of the song's many titles include, "Gyelem, Gyelem", "Jelem, Jelem", "Dzelem, Dzelem", "Dželem, Dželem", "Đelem, Đelem", "Djelem, Djelem", "Ђелем, Ђелем", "Ѓелем, Ѓелем","Џелем, Џелем", "Джелем, джелем" (cyrillic), "Opré Roma" and "Romale Shavale". In an interview with reporter Mike Kalezić, Jovanović himself titled the song ‘Opre Roma’.
[SIZE=+2] T[/SIZE]his verse of Gelem, Gelem was inspired by Roma in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. There are other verses by different authors, so there exist several versions of this song. The songGelem, Gelem is also known by the namesDjelem, Djelem, Opré Roma, and Romale Shavale.
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov in their study of the song, provide the following history:
Milan Aivazov from Plodiv [Bulgaria], born in 1922, a self-taught cymbal player and a long-time musician in the popular Aivazov Duet, says that he can remember the popular melody of "Zhelim, Zhelim" from his grandfather but he has forgotten the old words. He thinks that the song is extremely melodious, but it used to be played in a triple time and it was actually an old Rumanian song rewritten by Gypsy musicians in Serbia who changed the tempo. (Continent newspaper, # 222, 9, 22, 95, p.6) There are other explanations according to which this is a Gypsy melody originating in Rumania and popular in variety shows in Paris in the 20's and 30's. In any case, this was a very popular song among Serbian Gypsies in the 60's and there are various texts to the melody.
The melody of this song became popular in Europe in the end of the 60's from Alexander Petrovic's film Skupljaci perja (The Buyer of Feathers) known under the name I Have Met Some Happy Gypsies[στδ. Συνάντησα κι ευτυχισμένους Τσιγγάνους]. There was a meeting of Comité International Tsigane in April 8-12, 1971 in London, attended by Gypsies from different countries, which became the First World Roma Congress. The Congress decided to form a new international Gypsy organisation. Later on, at the Second Congress in 1978 in Geneva, this organisation took the name Romani Ekhipe or Romani Union. As Donald Kenrick remembers, Jarko Jovanovic and Dr. Jan Cibula prepared a new text for the popular melody during the Congress. In its new variant the song "Gelem, Gelem" was liked by everyone, it was unanimously accepted as the Congress song and the Congress ended with it.
One of the decisions of the Congress was "to have an international competition for the words and music of an international Romani anthem" and it was this song that actually became the anthem. At the international meetings and congresses which followed the "Romani Anthem" was already taken for granted and was gradually accepted by the Gypsy organisations in the European countries and by public opinion. Its universal acceptance was assisted by the fact that the song "Djelem, Djelem" was included in the records of the popular Yugoslavian singer Šaban Bairamovic in the 80's which inspired new folklore variants. The song became popular as an "anthem" among Gypsies from various countries (mainly in Eastern Europe), but it did not replace the numerous folklore variants which were already in existence.**
* "Black Legions" refers to the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel; German: "Protective Echelon"), so called because of the black uniforms they wore. The SS included the Gestapo secret police and the Death's Head Battalion (Totenkopfverbande) concentration camp units.
Φανταστικές οι δύο εκτελέσεις του Sister Midnight, δαεμάνε! Με εξαίρεση την ερμηνεία της Μπλόντι ("lead singer of Blondie who is sometimes erroneously referred to by that name"), που τη βρήκα ανέμπνευστη. Η κιθάρα του Φριππ, ηλεκτρική και ηλεκτρίζουσα.
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Άκλαυτος πέρασε ο πιανίστας και συνθέτης Horace Silver (1928-2014), σπουδαίος εκπρόσωπος του hard bop και αστέρι της δισκογραφικής εταιρείας Blue Note. Ας δακρύσουν οι ευαίσθητες ψυχές γι' αυτόν τον ιδανικό μιγάδα με όχημα το It Never Entered My Mind:
