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Fanfare Ciocărlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani Balkan brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece Prăjini. Fanfare Ciocarlia are considered pioneers of both Balkan brass and Balkan beats. The speed, dynamics, wit and uniquely Eastern tone to Fanfare Ciocarlia's music has won them international popularity. All members of the band are Roma and they are recognised as one of Europe's most popular contemporary Romani bands. Fanfare Ciocarlia are best known for a very fast, high-energy sound, with complex rhythms and high-speed, staccato clarinet, saxophone and trumpet solos, sometimes performed at more than 200 beats per minute.() Fanfare Ciocarlia's high energy live performances are noted for their wit and sense of controlled chaos – during concerts the band may randomly blast their horns and clarinets in the middle of a song – while they continue to play their old, battered instruments onstage. Fanfare Ciocarlia are also known for their talent to rearrange famous songs (Born To Be Wild, James Bond Theme, Caravan, Summertime) in a manner that marks them as their own. Fanfare Ciocarlia never use sheet music in their performances. Since appearing in 1996 Fanfare Ciocarlia have played more than two thousand concerts in more than 70 countries. In 2016 the band will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a world tour. ==Band origins in Moldavia, north-eastern Romania== Fanfare Ciocarlia hail from the tiny village of Zece Prajini in Moldavia, northeastern Romania. Zece Prajini is entirely populated by Romani families where, traditionally, most of the men in the village worked either as subsistence farmers or at factories in nearby towns. Many men in the village played music at local weddings and baptisms. They tended to play brass instruments as farming left their fingers too rough to play string instruments. Playing an instrument was a family tradition, taught father to son, and while the village was noted locally for its brass musicians no one living there considered themselves a professional musician. Fanfare Ciocarlia exist as a brass band of nine to twelve members whose roots are in Austrian and Turkish military marching bands. Fanfare Ciocărlia's instrumental lineup includes trumpets, tenor and baritone horns, tubas, clarinets, saxophones, bass drum and percussion. Their song lyrics are usually either in Romani or Romanian. Their musical style stems primarily from the traditions of Romani and Romanian folk dance music, but they also borrow freely from Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian musical styles, and they incorporate a number of tunes gleaned from international radio, Hollywood and Bollywood in their broad repertoire as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fanfare Ciocărlia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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