World Music: Életfa, "Gyimesi kerekes és magyaros"
(USA/Hungary) This gorgeous animation by Steve Harper is the product of a workshop initiated by LinkTV with Eyebeam (www.eyebeam.org) to create music videos for local world music artists. The music is by Életfa, an American Hungarian band that plays extensively in the Northeastern USA. The songs themselves are from Gyimes, a part of Transylvania that has a large Hungarian population despite its location in Romania, and is considered a remote area, even by Transylvanian standards. The Hungarian dialect that is spoken and certain instruments that are played there are unique to the region, such as the utogardon, that looks like a cello, but is actually a percussion instrument. Listening to this music, it is easy to hear the tonalities that inspired the composer Bela Bartok, who is also famous for having made hundreds of field recordings of Hungarian folk music at the beginning of the twentieth century.
(USA/Hungary) This gorgeous animation by Steve Harper is the product of a workshop initiated by LinkTV with Eyebeam (www.eyebeam.org) to create music videos for local world music artists. The music is by Életfa, an American Hungarian band that plays extensively in the Northeastern USA. The songs themselves are from Gyimes, a part of Transylvania that has a large Hungarian population despite its location in Romania, and is considered a remote area, even by Transylvanian standards. The Hungarian dialect that is spoken and certain instruments that are played there are unique to the region, such as the utogardon, that looks like a cello, but is actually a percussion instrument. Listening to this music, it is easy to hear the tonalities that inspired the composer Bela Bartok, who is also famous for having made hundreds of field recordings of Hungarian folk music at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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World Music: Életfa, "Gyimesi kerekes és magyaros"
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