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Nov 22 2007

What’s with that? (or rock out, Roma-style)

Posted by Steve Layton in Contemporary Classical

All the ooh-ahh flutter over Golijov’s Ayre, or even the recent Dudamel & Co., and then you spot something like this:

Loredana: Marioara de la Gorj (2001)

Loredana is a Romanian Madonna pop-diva clone (here’s a more typical example from her new CD, where Roma kinda meets the Black Eyed Peas), but here shows that underneath her roots are second nature. All props to the Dude & kids, Ms. Upshaw, O.G. (and especially Gustavo Santaolalla, the real mastermind behind the sound of Ayre), but even this MTV-style context should show that the lessons of this kind of approach and energy are already all around.

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4 Responses to “What’s with that? (or rock out, Roma-style)”
  1. jeff harrington says:
    November 22, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    Wow… thats hot.  Unlike uh…  ;-)

  2. Joseph Benzola says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:29 am

    Madonna or the Black Eyed Peas could only dream of being as hip as this. My people have arrived… :-)

  3. John Clare says:
    November 23, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    This is stunning as well, with violinist Janine Jansen:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=DPD_YpMZivg

  4. Eric Bruskin says:
    November 23, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    You said it, Jer. I like Ayre, but the only really “pop” cut is the third one, which is surprising and exciting in context. But that Loredana video just blows Golijov – Ayre OR the Passion – out of the water.

    How did you “spot” this?

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