For
Release Monday
October 21, 2000-2006
Gypsy
Fire and Soul Announces Release of Fourth CD:
“SHERI, with the Balkan Romalen Ensemble.”
Chicago, IL (October
23,
2000-2006)—Passionate in her
goal to bring “authentic Gypsy music, written and performed by real Gypsies”
to listeners here and across the globe, artist Sheri Milosavljevic has released
her first CD entitled “SHERI, with the Balkan Romalen Ensemble.” Previous Gypsy Fire and Soul releases include “Jewish
Music for All Millennia (2000)”, and “Yiddish Music Goes Gypsy, Volumes I
and II (2000-2006).”
Listening to this CD, Sheri makes you understand and
feel compassion for nearly all of the aspects of the romance of Gypsy life,
including the passion, “When a Gypsy fiddler plays and the bow hairs
sing…,” the longing for a return their roots, “Return to India,” the
romance, “Find me there those ebony eyes,” the love of music, “Music is my
life! Play for me now! Everything in life disappears, just the songs remain.”
Originally an actress, Sheri studied music, and dance at
the Luyo Davicho Ballet School in Belgrade.
Classically trained as a singer as well, Sheri met her husband Svetozar
“Djula” Milosavljevic in 1975, and by 1977, was dancing with the Romalen
Orchestra for the former President Tito of Yugoslavia.
Winner of many poetry and writing awards in her native Belgrade, Sheri
together with Djula, wrote and composed the lyrics and music of all the songs on
this CD, with the exception of “I am the Girl for You,” and “My Name is
Sheri,” whose lyrics and music were written by Milan Vasi, famous Belgrade
pianist.
Ensemble members include Djula, composer, arranger, and
accordion performer. Djula was the
former solo accordionist in the world famous Gypsy orchestra known as the
Romalen Orchestra and has won the Yugoslavia National Artist Award in 1976, and
the International Golden Lyre Award for Music in Belgrade in 1980.
Their son Danilo, the group’s arranger, violin performer, and sound
engineer, has taken numerous first place awards in various classical violin solo
competitions.
For more on Gypsy Fire and Soul, visit their website a www.GypsyFireAndSoul.com. You may also contact Gypsy Fire and Soul Producer, Dave Waterman via e-mail at GypsyFireAndSoul@yahoo.com, or by Phone/Fax at 847-432-1954.
Gypsy Fire and
Soul Announces Release of Third CD: “Yiddish Music Goes Gypsy, Volume II”
Chicago, IL (July 4,
2000-2006)—Continuing to underscore the relationship among Yiddish, Gypsy and folk
music that flourished in Eastern Europe, Chicago-based ensemble, Gypsy Fire and
Soul, has launched their third CD, “Yiddish Music Goes Gypsy, Volume II.”
The group’s previous releases include “Jewish Melodies for all
Millennia (2000),” and “Yiddish Music Goes Gypsy (2000-2006).”
As in the first volume of
“Yiddish Music Goes Gypsy”, the second volume illustrates the overlapping of
music, as part of culture, between the neighboring Gypsy and Yiddish communities
by punctuating traditional Jewish melodies with such stringed percussion
instruments as the dulcimer, and by employing a variable “rubato” tempo to
the “Rumanian Doina” folk dance melody, which starts slowly then works
itself into a frenzy. The members
of Gypsy Fire and Soul, through accordion, violin and colorful Gypsy
orchestrations, relate Yiddish lyrical stories surrounding events such as the
Krakow Ghetto’s “Bloody Thursday” in the summer of 1942, to that of the
festive melodies of the musician Yossel, in “Yossel Der Klezmer”, whose
fiddle inspires ‘frolicking, hopping, dancing and singing’.
Ensemble members include
Svetozar “Djula” Milosavlyevic, former solo accordionist in the world famous
Gypsy orchestra known as the Romalen Orchestra. Djula has won the Yugoslavian National Artist Award for Music
in 1976 and the International Golden Lyre Award for Music in Belgrade in 1980.
His son Danilo “Danny” Milosavljevic, the group’s violinist, has
taken numerous first place awards in various classical violin solo competitions.
Producer and accordionist Dave Waterman, Professional Civil Engineer and
builder of bridges over rivers and highways, has bridged the cultures with this
outstanding blending of Yiddish and Gypsy musical forms.
The trajectory of Yiddish and
Gypsy music has come full-circle since it’s beginnings in Eastern Europe.
Noting a resurgence of interest in such music, Waterman states, “This
recent recording was made in the hope that it will contribute, in some small
way, to the joy and entertainment of both peoples who continue to thrive despite
adversity, and to the folk music audience at large.”
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