Ďusi Band Orchestra - Leave Me Be
created: 28. 06. 2024 09:12 modified: 28. 06. 2024 09:12
The family cimbalom band Ďusi Band core members are the father and his three sons, often accompanied by various guest musicians. The singer Anita Haffnerova and the Band sang the song Ara, more, khatar ma (Leave Me Be). The guest musicians of the Band were Roland Horvath - clarinet and Jakub Haffner - accordion and vocals.
The video was recorded in the framework of the internal project of documentation of the family cimbalom bands, in Presov, in 2022.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk orchestra borrowed Romani Ďusi Band Orchestra general audience internal
Ďusi Band Orchestra - I Will Leave
created: 28. 06. 2024 06:59 modified: 28. 06. 2024 07:01
The family cimbalom band Ďusi Band core members are the father and his three sons, often accompanied by various guest musicians. The singer Anita Haffnerova and the Band sang the song Džava mange (I Will Leave). The guest musicians of the Band were Roland Horvath - clarinet and Jakub Haffner - accordion and vocals.
The video was recorded in the framework of the internal project of documentation of the family cimbalom bands, in Presov, in 2022.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk orchestra borrowed Romani Ďusi Band Orchestra general audience internal
Ďusi Band Orchestra - If I Go Away, Mother
created: 27. 06. 2024 13:34 modified: 27. 06. 2024 13:36
The family cimbalom band Ďusi Band core members are the father and his three sons, often accompanied by various guest musicians. The singer Anita Haffnerova and the Band sang the song Te me, mamo, adari džav (If I Go Away, Mother). The guest musicians of the Band were Roland Horvath - clarinet and Jakub Haffner - accordion and vocals.
The video was recorded in the framework of the internal project of documentation of the family cimbalom bands, in Presov, in 2022.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk orchestra borrowed Romani Ďusi Band Orchestra general audience internal
Július Bandy
created: 19. 06. 2024 06:33 modified: 19. 06. 2024 06:35
Július Bandy st. comes from a family in which musicianship has been handed down from generation to generation. The interview focuses on his family and personal history, his career as a professional dulcimer player, passing on his artistic legacy to his sons, and finally, reflections on the present and future of Roma music production.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective monologue guided Slovak Romani Július Bandy general audience internal
Michal Mižigár
created: 16. 04. 2024 07:34 modified: 16. 04. 2024 07:34
Michal "Mižu" Mižigár is a descendant of a Romani family from Slovakia, which moved to Czech Republic from the villages of Upper Spiš after World War II. He graduated from the Bussiness Academy in Pisek, and continued his studies at the Charles University in Prague at the Faculty of Arts, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Roma Studies.
Currently, he is studying at the Central European University (formerly in Budapest, Hungary, later in Vienna, Austria) for a master's degree in comparative history. At the time of the interview, he worked in Great Britain in the team of the Roma of Great Abilities project, where he worked with teachers of Roma children from Czech Republic and Slovakia. The interview is abour his life, work and knowledge received so far.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue general Romani Michal Mižigár general audience internal
Dezider Horváth, Krásnohorské Podhradie
created: 20. 03. 2024 13:36 modified: 20. 03. 2024 13:37
Dezider Horváth, the leader of the local Roma community in the village of Krásnohorské Podhradie, talks about the village, the settlement and its origins, the local Roma community as well as his personal and family history. Dezider Horváth is a memorial of many historical events, he also talks about the years when he was active in the field of Roma national politics and local civic activism.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Romani Dezider Horváth general audience internal
Laci Nitra - Aďes aba me maťuvav
created: 19. 03. 2024 07:32 modified: 19. 03. 2024 07:33
The song "Aďes aba me maťuvav" - halgató, was documented on the Vlachika Roma Culture Festival named Amari Luma (Our World) in Komárno, as a part of a performance of a family music band Laci Nitra. Author of the lyrics and music is Ladislav Németh, who is also the performer.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk orchestra original Romani Ladislav Németh general audience internal
Miroslav Pokoš
created: 16. 01. 2024 06:25 modified: 16. 01. 2024 06:26
He comes from the village of Šumiac, from the family of musicians. His father's family are the Pokoš musicians from Šumiac, his mother's family the Harvans from Telgárt. These are the localities in which guitar or keyboard instruments never dominated. Instead, violin, accordion, double-bass and cimbalom were key instruments played there. He plays the double-bass, violin and accordion. He is a musical self-taught person. The Pokošovci Band plays both Slovak and Romani folklore music from the region of Horehronie.
His brothers Rado and Stano and him released the album Folk Band Pokošovci 2, which reached the 15th place in the World Music Chart Europe, in January 2020.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Miroslav Pokoš internal general audience
Daniel Pokoš
created: 15. 01. 2024 13:41 modified: 15. 01. 2024 14:10
Daniel Pokoš comes from a family with a strong musical tradition. He was taught to play the violin by his father and grandfather, he also learned by listening to violinists from Horehronie. He works in the Pokošovci family cimbalom band. In the interview, he talks about his family and personal history and his perception of music, both traditional and contemporary.
The video recording of the interview was made on August 26, 2022 in Prešov, as part of the cycle of documentation of Roma cimbalom bands in Slovakia.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical monologue guided Romani Daniel Pokoš internal general audience
Kašate, Mek ča dural avľom - Manuša
created: 10. 01. 2024 10:52 modified: 10. 01. 2024 10:54
The members of the band Manusha (People) are professional musicians. The music project had been initiated by the Slovak singer Julia Kozakova; the musicians are Lubomir Gaspar on cimbalom, Viliam Didias on violin, Vojtech “Belu” Botos on viola and Jan Rigo on double-bass. In 2022, with the support of the Fund for Development of the National Minorities’ Culture in SR, and The Bratislava Self-Governing Region, the band released the album with the same name. The album presents 10 songs – all of them are the traditional Romani songs, played in arrangements by Manusha.
In 2022, the Documentation and Information Centre of the Romani Culture began to document the Romani cimbalom bands, especially those which carry on the family musical tradition.
Mesh-up of two songs, Kašate (In Košice) and Mek ča dural avľom (I Was Still Far Away), both of them slow and sad, so called halgato.
category: music
tags: vocal-instrumental modern folk quintet borrowed Romani Manuša general audience internal
