Tomáš Botló - "Come back, Please"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:36 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song "Please, Come Back" is written by him, the lyrics and music by Tomáš Botló.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "I Know What I Want"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:34 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song "I Know What I Want" is a cover version of the original song /The Gap Band - Someday, the author of lyrics is Tomáš Botló.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "Gelem, gelem"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:29 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The melodic motive of the Romani anthem comes probably from the ancient song popular originally in Romania or Serbia during the 1st half of the 20th century. Sin the 1968 when the director Alexander Petrovič used its melody with the lyrics made by the Romani musician Jarko Jovanovič in the film with the Romani theme The Buyers of Feather (Skupljači peria, 1967, Yugoslavia), the song had became popular once more. The Romani musicians included the song into their repertoir and many times changed its lyrics (sometimes even melody and tempo) according to their own feeling. Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists. The song sung by Tomáš Botló "I am fine" is a cover version /Zámbó Jimmy/. Lyrics by Tomáš Botló. The song is sung with guitar playing at the social hall of the cultural house in Hubice, district of Dunajská Streda.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - She's Our Young Bride
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The traditonal Romani song. Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis Romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists.
category: music
Tomáš Botló - "May Mother Died"
created: 22. 06. 2015 07:21 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Tomáš Botló - a singer and musician, playing amateur guitar, playing piano mostly, studied at the State conservatory in Bratislava. He writes his own songs, he built his recording studio at home where he proved being an excellent sound mixer. Tomáš mixis romani music with modern genres such as jazz, funk, hip-hop, latino, flamenco, pop and this kind of genre syncretism makes him multi-cultural and multi-genre musician. He cooperated with several Slovak as well as foreign rappers and artists.
category: music
Ondrej Gadžor - The Portrait of the Carver
created: 29. 05. 2015 08:06 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Short medallion of an outstanding Roma personality, a carver and sculptor Ondrej Gadžor. Ondrej Gadžor (9. 7. 1956 - 10/19/2013) - a native from Krásna nad Hornádom, he started carving when he was 24 years old. He works with different types of material - stone, even with horn or shells, but especially with wood. He developed a unique sculptural handwriting, influenced by the school of the academic sculptor Vojtech Löfller, in whose atelier he worked for eleven years. The subtle nature of small creation he managed to transfer into of monumental sized works made in sculptors' gatherings. His work is above the common works of non-professional sculptors. Abbreviations and abstraction reaches beyond normal folk art, and the final shape is somewhere between modern sculpture and African folk statues. His works' form is weightless, percepted as light and airy. His strengths are clean lines, he plays with wood and its structure, using them artfully in his works. Among the main themes stands a woman. He had several solo exhibitions, regularly attended sculpture open air events. He performed at several solo exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are exhibited, inter alia, also in Los Angeles, or the Vatican and many are part of the collections of museums in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic (East Slovak Museum in Košice, SNM-Museum of Roma Culture in Slovakia in Martin, Vojtech Löffler Museum in Košice Museum of Roma Culture in Brno).
category: fine arts
Róbert Rigó - Presentation of his own Smith Production
created: 18. 05. 2015 14:09 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
Installation of exhibition presenting the smith artefacts organised as a part of the events celebrating the World Roma Day, prepared by the Office of the Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic for the Romani communities. Place of the event: historical seat of the NR SR in Bratislava.
category: speaking
Alexander Berki - Ocean, Opus 25 etude n.12 in C minor (Fryderyk Chopin)
created: 18. 05. 2015 12:39 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The piano performance of the artist Alexander Berki, student of the 3rd year of the Private Music and Dramatic Arts School in Hnúšťa, a piece from Fryderyk Chopin: Ocean, Opus 25, etude n.12 in C minor
category: music
tags: Alexander Berki
Bohémiens - "Czardas" (Vittorio Monti)
created: 18. 05. 2015 12:24 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
A piece from Vittorio Monti - Czardas, as being played bz the Romani band Bohémiens, recorded during the band´s concert in the Grand Hotel Bellevue in Horný Smokovec on April 19, 2014. The instruments played: 1st violin - Barbora Botošová, contrabas - Tomáš Gašpierik, guitar - Roman Horváth, cimbalom - Vladimír Homola, 2nd violin - Marek Konček.
category: music
Miroslav Rác - "Na dara"
created: 15. 05. 2015 10:38 modified: 27. 11. 2020 01:47
The song belongs to the sub genre of romano hip-hop. Music is composed by Miroslav Rác. Lyrics written by Jarmila Vanova and Miroslav Rac. The video clip was directed, recorded and produced by Vojtech Sloboda. The song was made in the year 2010 as a part of the activities supporting free declaration of the Romani nationality of the citizens in the cenzus in the Slovak Republic. The video, sound and lyrics are based on the official videoclip. Live versions might differ in lyrics, sound and the way of performance based on the author's licence.
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