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Czech’s Gipsy Takes The Moscow High Road to Eurovision 2009
Posted in Culture, Romany (Gypsy) Bands by Chavo Romano
THE Czech entry to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is an ethnic mix of fun and dance but no way is this going to take the top prize in Moscow.
Aven Romale is full of dance and movement but few ingredients of a melody which has enough European wide appeal other than in it own locale
Having said that Gipsy.cz has come a long way in the last three years and is considered as one of the most famous Czech music representatives. in their own country. Abroad the group has played at prestigious festivals and clubs in 15 countries from Glastonbury to Ljubljana..
The Romani rapper Radoslav has been performing since the age of 13;
Vojta Lavička, co-author of the project Gipsy.cz plays the violin and sings. The band is famous for its energetic live performances spiced with a good dose of distinct humour and self-irony.
Gipsy.cz significantly helped the mutual understanding and better communication between the minorities and the majority society. In 2007 Radoslav became the national ambassador of European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
The popularity of the band on the international scene is also proven by its participation at the legendary festival in Glastonbury where it performed as the first ever Czech band. People also saw Gipsy.cz in the Netherlands – at the Dunya Festival in Rotterdam, the Mundial Festival in Tilburg and in the legendary Paradiso Hall in Amsterdam. The band also performed at the Couleur Café Festival in Brussels, at a festival on the Isle of Wight, the Pulse Festival in London and the Sziget Festival in Budapest. The unexpectedly enthusiastic reception brought the band twice to the World Music Festival in Ulsan, South Korea.
Music reviewers both at home and abroad have praised both their albums. The European journey of the most recent album Reprezent, started with the biggest Czech success when the group finished in third place in World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) last October. Reprezent took the overall 21st spot in the music charts out of 916 nominated albums.
The band’s albums are popular in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, Italy, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, etc. The songs from both albums are in many compilations dedicated to world music as well as Romani and modern music fusions.
The latest issue of the prestigious British magazine Songlines gave Reprezent all five stars, referring to it as Top of The World, and included the song Benga Beating in its sampler also called Benga Beating.
Lyrics – Aven Romale
They used to call me Gipsy, hello there
It means no problem to me, I don’t care
Till I’ve got microphone making you act
I love to be that gipsy rat
Word ain’t key to me
I can’t think that easily
If you keep that energy
Gipsy sounds like symphony
Hate me or love me, baby
Speed up from null to eighty
In next three seconds music turns you to slave it
Aven Romale / Come on Roma
If you really wanna understand, just sing it with me: ada dadadai…
Aven Romale
I can make you really sing like Gipsy: adadada adadada…
Aven Romale
If you really wanna understand, just sing it with me: ada dadadai…
Aven Romale
I can make you really feel like Gipsy
Music is the miracle, rhythm is the mirror, that’s right
It’s truth that Gipsies are just everywhere
It means no problem to me, I don’t care
Listen the song and free your frozen mind
And let the colours all behind
I can make you feel like
Gipsy, let colour behind
Free your Gipsy inside of your music soul to be like
And what a wonder
Truth
You got it inside
Aven Čech, Jágr, pivo /Come on, Čech, Jágr, beer
Come together once more
Aven Romale
Ma ker the šun man more / Now listen to me, man
Listen and don’t matter where you’re from
I’ll make you jump, say it
Aven Romale
Praha Brno Normale
Češí ví, my name is Gee / Czechs know, my name is Gee
So everybody rock with me, please
Aven Romale
Aven Romale
If you really wanna understand, just sing it with me: ada dadadai…
Aven Romale
I can make you really sing like Gipsy: adadada adadada…
Aven Romale
If you really wanna understand, just sing it with me: ada dadadai…
Aven Romale
I can make you really feel like Gipsy
Music is the miracle, rhythm is the mirror, that’s right
I feel something wrong
Made us separate the world on pieces
We got eyes and we still stay all so blind
Aven Romale
If you really wanna understand, just sing it with me: ada dadadai…
Aven Romale
I can make you really feel like Gipsy
Music is the miracle, rhythm is the mirror, that’s right
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