Taraf de Caliu - Barbu Lautaru

Taraf de Caliu, live recorded at IMPEX Studios.
"Barbu Lautaru" is a folk song that evokes the life of the old Romanian gipsy musicians called "lautari".

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Violin: Gheorghe Caliu Anghel
Violin: Gheorghe Robert
Accordion: Marius Manole
Accordion: Ionuț Răgălie
Cimbalom: Ionică Tanase
Clarinet: Filip Simeonov
Double Bass: Sile Neacșu
Keyboards: Adrian Pankistu

Mixed and mastered by Alex Corlan & Andrei Dinescu, IMPEX Studios

Video credits:

Camera:

Șerban Dinescu
Cosmin Filişan
Simona Constantin

Edit & Grading:
Alice Furdui, Adenium Film

Directed and produced by Simona Constantin, APORT Film

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Haidouks are back. After more than three decades of relentlessly touring all over the world, the founding members of Taraf de Haidouks came back and started a new project: Taraf de Caliu. The musicians from Clejani are the last generation of lautari that carry on this authentic traditional music from the Southern Romania, the music that made them being acclaimed as one of the best gipsy bands in the world. Under the lead of Caliu, the iconic violinist of the taraf, they are on the road again.

Since 1991, the year in which their music began taking on western Europe, the musicians from Clejani have performed all over the world in places as culturaly different as possible - Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, New York, Istanbul, London, Los Angeles. If we are to name just a few of their fans and collaborators, we'd go for Yehudi Menuhin, Kronos Quartet (alongside which they produced), Johnny Depp (with whom they starred in "The Man Who Cried") and Yohji Yamamoto. Under the name of Taraf de Haidouks, the group was awarded in 2002 with BBC World Music prize for Best Group in Europe & Middle East.

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