Pentru Nobody:
Nu se intelege ce vrei sa spui. In West conceptul de tzigan este total diferit de cel din Romania. Vei gasi mai jos un fragment recent de cronica din US despre Madame Hooligan, care poate te va lamuri.
P.S. Ritchie Blackmore era cumva suedez ?
January 25, 2009 – Sunday
MADAME HOOLIGAN ~ "ANTIHERO" ~ A RED HOT BAND OF GYPSIES
Category: Music
MADAME HOOLIGAN
"ANTIHERO"
A RED HOT BAND OF GYPSIES[/color]
This review has been reposted. I love this band. The review is changed only to add the cover art for the album which wasn't available at first posting.
"It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy."
Franz Liszt
"Be born anywhere, little embyro novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of salvation. Go out and be born among the gypsies or thieves or among happy workaday people who live in the sun and do not think about their souls."
~ Pearl S. Buck
Madame Hooligan is a band on the move and a band of gypsies. They have discovered the stark drama of sculpted rock steeped in the dynamics of an irreverent outsider's observation. I believe they are thieves of a deeper tradition in music among the tepid borrowers at the top of the charts. In a perfect world, they would share the stage with Mars Volta and Gogol Bordello at a concert attended by John Masefield and Pearl S. Buck. The elements of these songs have as much detail and variety as "Yes," with the spirit of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Gypsy Kings and Charles Bukowski. There's more to the success of Madame Hooligan than meets the eye. They are the Carnival folk at the edge of town with special abilities and enough insight to burst the false bubble of common wisdom.
The music of MH feels to have been worked out on a gut string classical, Spanish, or Gypsy guitar filled with campfire smoke, scarred from the beating of a tambourine, played with the restless dramatic tension and street opera and sung urgently by a stranger in a strange land. The bass vibrates like telephone lines in a wind swept downpour, with a fuzz guitar that brings chaotic emotion without the Baroque filigree of impressive, fused, art-rock arpeggios. Acoustic and gut string rhythm, picked and plucked guitars fill the sound in quieter moments anticipating the distant thunder of a supportive drumkit coiled to deliver a stark explosive assault as the story builds from the heart to the an anthemic fist. Rhythms and melodies in common with a caravan, Kurt Weill, and klezmer infiltrate the Clash-stark fire circle of this band like fresh meat roasting over a bonfire. After dozens of spins, I'm finding a good helping of Tool in this mix. These guys know what they are after.
Point of clarification: All musicians are gypsies. I take that from Jimi Hendrix and years of tradition. Perhaps Romania spawned a tradition in music that we feel as Gypsy. Musicians and theater folk are all gypsies. I am one. You may be one too.
Hidden in the words to the songs on Antihero is the story of a boy in communist Romania who has come to explore the freedom of religion, the promise of democracy, and the joys and sorrows implicit in a life of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in the City of Angeles. Antihero is the love song of the cynic, detailing the bitter truth behind the promise of each new freedom. Communism, religion, democracy, drugs, and the rock 'n' roll lifestyle have failed to live up to their promise. This Romanian boy sends a cryptic letter home letter home to Mom and Dad in the song Hooligan. In a deeper sense, MH has stayed true to the search for wisdom through all the disappointments of rockin' in the Free World. These songs affirm the dignity of life without unnecessary illusions. These men are up to something. In a world littered with the corpses of saviors, Madame Hooligan offers a fortune telling hoodlum and the active resistance contained in the concept of the antihero.
And the music kicks ass!
MADAME HOOLIGAN IS:
Radu: Vocals
David Ballon: Guitars
Andrei: Drums
The bass on the album was played by Tony Franklin, formerly of "The Firm" with Jimmy Page, "White Snake", "Blue Murder," etc.
