Mega Music Talent

Archive for the ‘Music Worldwide’ Category

On your next trip, go beyond typical Istanbul tourism and make sure and check out this unique record store!

Panorama Jazz Band – Istanbul Jazz Festival 2010

The Klezmer music is the traditional Jewish music originated in Eastern Europe in the last centuries. In fact, the term Klezmer is a yiddish word which is a contraction of two Hebrew words, “kli” and “zemer”. The meaning of kli is instrument, tool, while zemer definition is air, melody, song.

So the Klezmer is the instrument of the song, the vessel of the voice. At the origin, the word klezmer was employed to designate the itinerant Jewish musicians (the plural is “klezmorim”) who were playing at weddings and celebrations, traveling from village to village. The Jewish folk music had many cultural and geographical influences. Although being essentially an Ashkenazi music the impact of the Oriental, Greek, Turkish, Jewish and non Jewish communities living in the Ottoman empire was not negligible.

Wherever they were, The musicians picked up music from the people living around them, the Gypsies, Romanian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Lithuanian, Polish and many others. But in spite of or maybe thanks to all those external influences the Klezmer kept his particularity, his characteristics and his unmistakable sound. At the beginning of the 20th century, this music style was indexed as Jewish music, Yiddish folk music or even as “Bulgar”, but gradually the word Klezmer began to refer to the style and the repertoire.

It is probably Moshe Beregowsky, a Russian-Jewish ethnomusicologist who used for the first time the term Klezmer as the music performed by the Klezmorim. In the seventies, while the Klezmer revival occurred, the word was definitively adopted as the generic term for the musicians and the music style.

Hence, while the music itself is a few centuries old, the word Klezmer is a kind of neologism. In fact the juxtaposition of klezmer and music is a tautology, a redundancy. Although the Klezmer is a secular music, its roots are religious, liturgic. The fact is that globally and in every culture, music has always a religious or mystical origin. It is a way to accompany the rites or the ceremonies, to reach a state of trance and to approach the divinity.

Klezmer is not an exception, the Psalms of King David in the Bible are maybe the first apparition of structured music. The Klezmer adopted also the intonation and the voicing of the cantor at the synagogue. The Klezmer is not playing, but rather he is singing through his instrument, hence first the violin and then the clarinet were the instruments of predilection for the Klezmer, because they are very close to the human voice.

The art of klezmer is an art of interpretation, many players can play the same tune, the same melody, the same nigun (nigun in Yiddish means a wordless melody), but it will always sound different, because each musician is expressing his deep emotions and revealing his own soul. Giora Feidman, the great clarinet Klezmer player called this “the inner voice”. Maybe the Klezmer is the most appropriate musical expression to show off sentiments, feelings, sensibility. It can be joyful, it can cry, it can burst out laughing or burst into tears.

But in spite of this ambivalence, there is always a message of hope.

Author Bio: Arik Nitsan is a clarinetist who is specialized in Klezmer and world music. For more resources on clarinet and Klezmer, visit his website : clarinet-klezmer

While Caribbean Reggae music has spread throughout the world, and is now being performed and recorded in countries across the globe, Soca music has its origins, and continues to be produced predominately, in the Caribbean. Indeed, there is perhaps no other music that more uniquely invokes connotations of the Caribbean than does Soca.

At its inception, the music was called Calypso and, while the early recordings of Harry Belafonte and others of the period continue to carry the Calypso label in the minds of the general public, the music and its beat has carried the current name for the past 30 years among the Caribbean communities. It is said that the name came from the combining the ‘CA’ of Calypso with a dose of Soul (‘SO’) to become SOCA!

Probably the genre’s most famous song of all time, and one that instantly conveys the style of music to which the name refers, is the song “(Are You Feeling) Hot Hot Hot”. Written and made famous throughout the Caribbean by Antiguan singer Arrow, the song was brought to America and the world stage by Buster Poindexter ‘and His Banshees of Blue’ in 1987. The magnitude of the song permanently placed the musical style, and its association with the Caribbean, on the map. Certainly, the songs Day-O and Hot Hot Hot would be considered the two foremost titles that people think of as Caribbean music.

Additionally, the musical instrument that tends to also be uniquely connected with the Caribbean and, indeed, with this music is the Steel Drum. The melody emanating from the drum is termed both Pan Steel or Steel Pan music. Indeed, it can be said that the Steel Drum is heard more often times with a Soca beat than with any other style of music. The percussive nature of the instrument and the percussion-intensive Soca beat are a perfect match, and the qualities of both contribute to a decidedly Caribbean sound.

The Caribbean band IRIE TIME combines both of these musical elements in practically every performance. The group has been performing Reggae and Soca music for over a decade and has discovered that, once this music starts filling the dance floor, it’s hard to stop! As the lyrics to Hot Hot Hot go: “Oh what to do ? On a night like this; Music’s sweet ? You can’t resist.” We see young and old alike up on their feet dancing to the music’s infectious rhythm.

Another Caribbean invention, the Conga Line, also ideally compliments the music. Its alternating ‘kick and step’, as one holds onto the person in front of them, finds its best possible accompaniment here.

Author Bio:  Listen to IRIE TIME Reviews of IRIE TIME releases and performances
Contact IRIE TIME through their website at http://www.IRIETIME.com or call today for a personalized booking quote at 713-398-3798. Find out how the band can make your event come to life! Because the musicianship of the group members approaches that of virtuoso levels, the band is able to augment the tone and variations of their music to fit just about any client’s musical needs.

“Red Rock and Blues,” “Time in Jazz,” “The boundaries between Sardinia and Jazz,” “Narcao Blues”, “European jazz exp” to quote the most familiar names. Musical events like these have been going on for several years now, usually during the summer season in sardinia.

The jazz and the blues are the protagonists in Sardinia together with other groups to enliven the evenings of different reviews. There are so many tourists (and Sardinian people as well) enthusiasts as well as curious, who move from one location of the island to another in order to attend these events. There are those who decide to take part in a single concert spending the day in the location. There are those who’d rather choose to spend more days in the location where concerts are held. Many people who choose to spend their vacations in Sardinia, spend most of the day on the coast and spend their time almost exclusively to relax by the sea and the beautiful beaches and the sea that Sardinia offers.

Many others want to know the rest of the island, the hinterland, hidden and authentic. The other Sardinia, the most beautiful. It is possible to find places very different among them, rich and suggestive for their unique natural and cultural features.

A real opportunity to know a beautiful area of the Sardinian island, to taste the flavors, fragrances, colors and especially the sounds, Time in jazz, the festival of jazz music conceived and organized by the famous Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu. It is surely one of the most renowned in Sardinia. The concerts are held in unusual and fascinating frames, in the mountains, near lakes, in front of rural churches, in small squares of towns or in locations such as the regional museum of wine.

It is difficult not to be kidnapped and involved in the music of these places. The atmosphere is unique and the simultaneous presence of natural scenery, musical notes and people is magical.

The festival is held in the second week of August in Berchidda, historical region of Logudoro in the border with Gallura, in the central-northern Sardinia. The town, clinging on the slopes of Mount Limbara, is surrounded by woods and vineyards of giogantinu and vermentino, immersed in the mountains near the lake Coghinas. The area has a discrete quantity of accommodation facilities for those who want to stay close to places of Time in Jazz, of course, booking well in advance considering the amount of requests.

In Berchidda and in the neighboring towns such as Pattada, Monti and Oschiri there are some hotels, bed and breakfast and farm houses as well. A few kilometers away are located coastal renowned location as Budoni, San Teodoro, Olbia and the Costa Smeralda with Porto Cervo and Porto Rotondo.

These are locations with lots of facilities where it will be certainly easier to find a place to stay. San Teodoro, in particular, offers many real possibilities of accommodation to suit all tastes, residences, hotel, camping and a large quantity of houses for rent.

—————————–

The author Carlo Gallino is the marketing manager of the Engedras Tour Operator. With Engedras’s Sardinia tours, you can tailor-make the dream holiday. Discover the beauties of San teodoro and look at our hotels in sardinia. http://www.sardegne.com

Article Source: http://articlesabroad.com