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Hi all,
I am glad to find a video of my favorite interpreter of the rumanian "Cantece Lautaresti": Dona Dumitru Siminica! and want to share this with you.
He was born in Targoviste (Rumania) in 1926. His family came from this provincial lautari stronghold not far from Bucharest and was attracted to the capital by the building boom between the wars. Siminicas father worked on building sites during the day and played his violin in teh evenings in the suburban restaurants in Herestrau ans Floreasca.
At that time the Siminica family lived in the same yard as the brothers Aurel and Victor Gore, who Dona Dumitru Siminica later performed with at weddings. The young Gypsy inherited both the talent and teh instrument from his father, trained as a bricklayer and spent a long time working as a site manager, singer and violinist, before establishing himself as a freelancer in the music scene since 1962.
Siminica had a disturbing, androgynous falsetto voice and a large number of female fans who hung on every word uttered by the man in the bespoke suit with the immaculate hairstyle and carefully clipped moustache for nights on end. His songs fell out of time, creating a soulful centre of peace countering the noise of the factories. This repertoire of quiet suburban songs (muzica lautareasca) ideally suited the cultivated musician´s´introverted charcter.
As early as the late forties the Bucharest public wended their way to a restaurant at "Amzei" market, more to hear Siminica´s high voice than his skill on the violin. After all he mainly sang melodic, richly ornamented melismatic love songs there, which has been fashionable in teh salons of Wallachian boyars back in the 18th and 19th century. Urbane rumanian music had always helped itself to Greek and Turkish culture, because Bucharest was, in addition to Rumanians, also populated by Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Jews, Aromanians and Gypsies.
In 2006 the german Label "Asphalt Tango" reissued some of Siminicas rare recordings on CD. It is Volume 3 in a series called "Sounds of a bygone age" (beneath reissues of Romica Pucenau and Ion Petre Stoican - check them, too).
http://www.asphalt-tango.de/records/sim ... rtist.html
Best,
Barengero
I am glad to find a video of my favorite interpreter of the rumanian "Cantece Lautaresti": Dona Dumitru Siminica! and want to share this with you.
He was born in Targoviste (Rumania) in 1926. His family came from this provincial lautari stronghold not far from Bucharest and was attracted to the capital by the building boom between the wars. Siminicas father worked on building sites during the day and played his violin in teh evenings in the suburban restaurants in Herestrau ans Floreasca.
At that time the Siminica family lived in the same yard as the brothers Aurel and Victor Gore, who Dona Dumitru Siminica later performed with at weddings. The young Gypsy inherited both the talent and teh instrument from his father, trained as a bricklayer and spent a long time working as a site manager, singer and violinist, before establishing himself as a freelancer in the music scene since 1962.
Siminica had a disturbing, androgynous falsetto voice and a large number of female fans who hung on every word uttered by the man in the bespoke suit with the immaculate hairstyle and carefully clipped moustache for nights on end. His songs fell out of time, creating a soulful centre of peace countering the noise of the factories. This repertoire of quiet suburban songs (muzica lautareasca) ideally suited the cultivated musician´s´introverted charcter.
As early as the late forties the Bucharest public wended their way to a restaurant at "Amzei" market, more to hear Siminica´s high voice than his skill on the violin. After all he mainly sang melodic, richly ornamented melismatic love songs there, which has been fashionable in teh salons of Wallachian boyars back in the 18th and 19th century. Urbane rumanian music had always helped itself to Greek and Turkish culture, because Bucharest was, in addition to Rumanians, also populated by Greeks, Turks, Armenians, Jews, Aromanians and Gypsies.
In 2006 the german Label "Asphalt Tango" reissued some of Siminicas rare recordings on CD. It is Volume 3 in a series called "Sounds of a bygone age" (beneath reissues of Romica Pucenau and Ion Petre Stoican - check them, too).
http://www.asphalt-tango.de/records/sim ... rtist.html
Best,
Barengero
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