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RE: How can anyone not like rumba?
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BarkellWH
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 RE: How can anyone not like rumba? (in reply to rombsix)
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Anders and Ramzi you "collaborated" on a very nice-sounding piece. Anders, your piece on the violin sounded very East European. I lived in Bulgaria from 1974 to 1976 under the old Todor Zhivkov communist regime Even then you could go into a "gypsy" restaurant in Sofia, and, although the menu might list 20 items but only served Chicken Kiev, you could listen to a gypsy violinist playing a very similar sounding tune.
And Ramzi, your modified rumba provided a very nice rhythmic background to Anders' Violin. Yours was well-paced and made for easy listening. That combination of lead violin with rhythmic guitar background made for a fine duo. It was a far cry from the cacophonous racket produced by Sylvano. Bravo to both of you.
Bill
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Date May 18 2016 21:11:14
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BarkellWH
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RE: How can anyone not like rumba? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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I actually believe that the melody is north (east) african... Bulgarian music is often in more complex rythms.
That may be, Anders. I'm no ethno-musicologist, but as I mentioned, I remember the "Gypsy" restaurant my wife and I used to go to in Sofia as having a "Gypsy" violinist who played music very similar to what you were playing. At the time, in the mid-1970s, the population of Bulgaria included about ten percent ethnic Turks and about four percent ethnic Gypsies or Roma. The music being played quite possibly could have been from either ethnic group.
And the other thing I remember well was the lack of variety in restaurants under the old communist regime. The menu would have perhaps 20 entree's listed. As you went down each one, the waiter would reply "ne," "ne," until you got to Chicken Kiev, at which point he said "da." It was the one thing, and often the only thing, you could always count on in Bulgarian restaurants.
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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