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Oh my gosh… on the road again, the outside weather is nothing for us. Amber code alert, our submarine (no, not yellow) transported us safely to the destination – Hard Rock Cafe Bucharest. Last year, we released here our last album – Basta Mafia! As the last time, the club is full....

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After the crazy December with two concerts in the New Year’s Eve, btw on 12 o’clock we were in the bus, somewhere between Focsani and Botosani (Romania) and let’s not forget the Christmas Symphony concert… well, after all this I promised to my kids that we will go to the mountain to...

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Dikaya Myata – a truly Art Festival1 Unlike any other festival, this summer Dikaya Myata was an amalgam of all sorts of crazy, funny, creative things… It was a very colorful one; we’ve seen lots of beautiful people, very refreshing (it’s wild mint, after all), everyday is...

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What is autumn? No, no it’s too early to speak about it… What is a vacation? Just give me a few days off! Off! I want everything that is driving me crazy to be off! What keeps me here? What I wanna get rid of? - Mobile phone and all these calls, the bills...

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When making a video you must always choose a song that’s catchy and organic, that leaves a momentary imprint into your mind. That is why we decided to pick the track "Moldovenii s-au nascut”. A song based on the Italian Tarantella with truly positive, joyful lyrics. In the video we wanted...

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Football game, Euro 2012 final Spain-Italy; Yalta (Ukraine), in less than an hour we will play in the fan zone. Right in the middle of the sound check, while we connect the cable, adjust the sound, in other words make a lot of noise, an old lady with string bags, well a typical...

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My dear Friends, I congratulate you all with my birthday! )) 39 years ago I was born… Thank you Mother and Father for a splendid childhood, thank You God for good luck, thank you music and the band for… an intense maturity and a life full of adventures… Thank you my dear wife...

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  It’s almost 1000 years since last time there was a war here. A country where you can feel the smell of money. The best concert will be held in Zurich! It will be organic and decisive! I feel very exhausted. We covered a distance of 700 km... This...

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  And we continue our tour… On the road, again… We spent a night in a very nice hotel with a very creative design. We really liked it! On the walls outside the window, from the top to the bottom were hanging buckets with flowers. In the hotel room instead of...

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I guess the great fixer* would love this place; it seems to the perfect place for building up his team. The type of village - town place. However despite its provincialism it has a rock club. I doubt that, for example in Jmerica* they have something similar to this......

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In Cologne it was about the same as in Berlin. To the concert came the ex-wife of our director, Elika (she helped us with the merchandising). She bought a vinyl, was very quiet and soon after the concert left on her bike. Our friend Arcadie also came, he was preoccupied with taking...

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  What resulted was a kind of mini fest: we along with a Romanian Band Mahala Rai Banda, in translation „Gang of paradise in our neighborhood”. It’s a drum fanfare that performs a kind of music for weddings but adapted to a European style, very positive guys. To the concert...

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March 28, Sunday Rock’n’roll gets even crazier! Steinbuch – a great club; has its own kitchen and a special place where you can take a nap... Thank God, this time we won’t have to go to the hotel after the concert. Right before the show I managed to prepare some pasta,...

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Denmark On arrival we couldn’t manage to visit Copenhagen since we were very hungry and had to search for a fast food. We ate some Indian food which was really disgusting but we didn’t have time to search for something else. God, please save and protect! Long...

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  Jena Trash art, trucks with trafaret, graffiti on the walls. Iron and concrete... The club resembled a medieval almshouse or an asylum, this was the first thing that came up to my mind when I saw the rock club in Jena. We ’ve been served with a cup of coffee and then...

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  A lot of time ago I and our trombonist Victor have worked part time in an Italian tavern in Leipzig. Since then the city hasn’t changed so much, you can still see lots of new buildings under construction or deserted houses, sometimes even entire neighbors and also...

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The second concert – We just cannot reach Vienna! Because of the lack of time we couldn’t manage visit the city. The OST club is as usually full, you cannot even breathe... Mozart left Vienna for Prague, but we decided to stay. Around us – an international party, the new...

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Budapest - the first concert of the tour. On the board of Artemovska that once used to transport bricks is situated the club and restaurant A 38, right on the Danube River. After the lunch we got on the board, the sound check didn’t go very well since we had some problems with...

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Roman Yagupov : After we finished the video for Running, I decided that the next video I’ll do on my own. What resulted in the end it’s upon you to decide. I chose to make a video for the song Gipsy life and along with my friends from some previous projects, Igor...

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  After we met the music producer Kader, we decided to work together. We really liked his approach to the working process with the Gaidamaki band, we played along with them at the closing of the "Linz tour” festival. There we’ve noticed how much they grew. Then, after talking to...

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We decided to focus not only on folk music and Romanian texts. Therefore, almost half of the album was without texts and the rest of it with texts in Romanian and some pilot versions of texts in English. We will have texts in Russian, too. At first the song arises as a force,...

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Recording Fender Prestige with four strings – sounds rather old school!  Patterns of future songs can already be seen. The new strings sound well, it takes us two days to record the bass guitar. Then we listen to the recorded material in order to see how it sounds, the...

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I’ve been always interested in how people create the beauty… Paint, compose music, write books How does everything start? The magic of the creation... I’ve always had this high interest? Why? I guess because it’s a mystery... Do you want to know how art is...

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It’s autumn, the leaves are falling.  And above my head the leaden clouds hung. The nature is slowly falling asleep and you want to join it Maybe we should also, like nature, during the winter slow down, stop running and just like in Marc Verlan’s painting curl up and...

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So, what are we going to do in our first day spent at the studio?  First before, we analyze the studio, what it offers us, the variety of instruments... We record the drums... In short time we overcome the language barrier... Vietnamese, Indian, Lebanese cuisine... The...

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