Do You like Gypsy music?

[Catnip]

nice melody! is this Croatian artist?
it's strange but when I close my eyes, I can see plains, a bonfire, dusty roads, a purple sunset,a horse in the distance LoL, and feel the humidity in the air. it reminds me a lot of my childhood (:

Canadian band from Moldova iirc. It's nice when music brings back memories, that's what it's for. Cheers

[gixajo]

Some of it sometimes.

[Rumata]

The local Gypsy tram singers can make ears "bleed".

The music of Gypsy kings is much more interesting though. Hopefully they haven't stolen it.

[Rumata]

In Balkan states, ex-Yu, gypsies are not that associated with crime, drugs and similar shit, they're know as musicians, singers, lots of weddings and other occasions have gypsy orchestras and gypsies are really good singers from the early ages, not only gypsy music, but any kind of songs.

Majority of them are poor, indeed, lots of them live in slums, but unlike in Ro, Md, ex-USSR they don't have those rich gypsy barons and thugs living in four floor grotesque houses with lions on sides of gates.

A wild guess: is it because their gangs can't compete succesfully with other gangs in those criminal fields?

[Chron]

I really like this one:

[Blondie]

[BakersfieldChimp]

On a weird side note, there seems to be some serious misinformation about what is or isn't gypsy music used in classical music. So many of us were told that things like Liszt's Hungarian rhapsodies were based on gypsy tunes when they really were based on Hungarian folk melodies. Actually, Liszt himself seems to be an early proponent of this misinformation.

https://www.romarchive.eu/en/music/c...aking-legends/

like the distinction between Cajon and Zydeco, it isn't a big deal except for people who are really invested in those types of things. The best way for dealing with one of those is
"thank you for educating me. That is something I really should look into deeper." and never think about it again.

[noricum]

Oh I love it!





One day we've got to do a video of us singing this in duett: