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Friday, February 29th, 2008 12:30 pm.
Something to get you in the mood for the weekend:
Tchavolo Swing - Dorado and Tchavolo Schmitt
From the film Latcho Drom
These two guys are cousins, gypsies from France, who play hot gypsy jazz, Django Reinhardt style. Sexy, sharp and infectious music. It's got very much a New York/Paris kinda feel. Makes me think of smoking a Gauloise at an outdoor cafe.
The clip is from a 1993 film called Latcho Drom, an extraordinary work by Tony Gatlif, a Romany filmmaker. The film chronicles the journey of the Rom from their ancestral origins in Rajasthan, India, through the Middle East and Europe to end up in Spain. The really interesting thing about the film is that it is completely without narration and almost without dialogue of any kind. The director chose to tell the story instead through the music of the Rom, each country they travel through represented by one or two musical numbers performed by local gypsy musicians. It's an INCREDIBLE experience, really.
P.S. I gave a copy of this film to Elijah at ORC 2005. Don't know if he ever watched it, but when I reminded him the next year, he said he remembered and would dig it out of his boxes.
Something to get you in the mood for the weekend:
Tchavolo Swing - Dorado and Tchavolo Schmitt
From the film Latcho Drom
These two guys are cousins, gypsies from France, who play hot gypsy jazz, Django Reinhardt style. Sexy, sharp and infectious music. It's got very much a New York/Paris kinda feel. Makes me think of smoking a Gauloise at an outdoor cafe.
The clip is from a 1993 film called Latcho Drom, an extraordinary work by Tony Gatlif, a Romany filmmaker. The film chronicles the journey of the Rom from their ancestral origins in Rajasthan, India, through the Middle East and Europe to end up in Spain. The really interesting thing about the film is that it is completely without narration and almost without dialogue of any kind. The director chose to tell the story instead through the music of the Rom, each country they travel through represented by one or two musical numbers performed by local gypsy musicians. It's an INCREDIBLE experience, really.
P.S. I gave a copy of this film to Elijah at ORC 2005. Don't know if he ever watched it, but when I reminded him the next year, he said he remembered and would dig it out of his boxes.
