GHEORGHE ZAMFIR/LE GENIE DE LA FLUTE DE PAN
THE GENIUS OF THE PANPIPES
Philips, 1973, 6325 047
Recorded in Paris this is another good album from the first period of Zamfir's French career. Here again he chose five soloists to constitute a taraf closer to the traditional village bands. The dynamics of Romanian music are better expressed with such a format . Side A is one set about traditional tunes from Southern Romania here Muntenia. Side B is divided between the Maramureş (two tracks) and the Banat (four tracks grouped in three).
The cymbalum player is not Toni Iordache but Pantelimon Stîngă. Marin Chisăr the fantastic fluier player was there too but had only one hora. He died in 1994. The other big name was the fiddle player Efta Botocă from Banat who passed away in 1991.
My album was dedicated to my sister and I by the genius himself.
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