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Câteva despre concertul Robbie Williams

Robbie e showman. Dincolo de muzica pe care o face, care pe alocuri nu e cu nimic peste epoca boyband, concertul live mi s-a părut fantastic. A știut să „engage” publicul, a lăudat până la cer și înapoi România și Bucureștiul, a comunicat cu lumea, a făcut șaij de mii de oameni să cânte. Are o energie fantastică pentru vârsta lui (are 40+).

Au fost momente în care mi s-a ridicat părul pe mână. Când l-a adus pe ta-su pe scenă (yep, I'm that lame!). Când a cântat „Angels”. În timpul tributului pentru Queen. La „My Way”.

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O melodie, 3 variante. „Burbujas de amor” a fost lansată în 1990 de Juan Luis Guerra și face parte de pe albumul „Bachata rosa”. Acest album a adus bachata din zona muzicii populare dominicane în mainstream, aducând, în același timp, și o audiență internațională acestui gen de muzică.

La vremea respectivă, bachata se asculta numai în zonele rurale din Republica Dominicană. Versurile melodiilor de bachata erau considerate prea vulgare pentru publicul larg. După ce a scos albumul „Ojalá que llueva café”, Juan Luis Guerra a început să experimenteze cu acest gen de muzică, inițial împreună cu Sonia Silvestre, rezultatul colaborării fiind single-ul „Como abeja al panal”, care a avut oarece succes în SUA.

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Și 2 săptămâni până la Congresul Național de Salsa 2015, v9. 

Almost Christmas

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Kizomba (101 in 1001: Learn a New Type of Dance)

In the quite long period of time I've been out of the dancing scene, a lot of stuff happened in Bucharest. Salsa evolved quite a bit. Bachata is danced differently now than the way it was back in 2006, when I first started dancing. People are now dancing West Coast Swing. The Afro craze started (zouk, kizomba, semba, tarraxinha).

I've missed on the whole zouk period and I don't really feel like getting into it, but kizomba is slowly (slooooowly) growing on me, although, due to the fact that I only know some basic steps, I find it boring if I they play more than two songs in a row and I start to fall asleep (the fact that the music is quite slow does not help either).

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Că tot am fost aseară la Kizz Start.

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Rammstein

Zilele astea am avut foarte multă treabă pe plantație și n-am apucat să vă zic că am fost la Rammstein.

Care concert a fost în foarte multe feluri, dar mai ales extraordinar. Băieții ăștia știu să facă spectacol așa cum nu am mai văzut până acum, dar cred că degeaba vă povestesc, pentru că nu știu cine chiar nu a auzit niciodată despre ce se întâmplă la concertele lor.

Enough said, am rămas cu dorința de a-i mai vedea încă o dată și încă o dată și - deși nimic nu bate Bon Jovi când e vorba de concerte (deh, amorurile adolescenței se uită greu) - pot spune, cu mâna pe inimă, că e unul dintre cele mai tari concerte la care am asistat vreodată. Asta de la cineva care nu a fost decât la un singur concert nașpa în toată viața ei (se pare că știu să le aleg).

Deci, da, Ich will să vină iar în România, cât mai repede. Das ist meine Sehnsucht.

Uriah Heep and... Iris, of course :)

Some of you, the ones who were at Sala Palatului yesterday evening, have seen a fantastic show made by Uriah Heep and Iris.

Again, I am speechless. I am not even going to talk about Raza, the band who made the opening; they were quite boring and the only two entertaining songs they played were "Amintire cu Haiducii" (original by Phoenix) and Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life".

I will speak of the 40 minutes' show Iris did, and of the hour and a half Uriah Heep played. A few years back, when Iris released the "Matase alba" album, Uriah Heep were in Romania as their guests in a show at the Baneasa airport. They registered together a modern version of "Lady in Black" (check my blast), which I find better than the original. Yesterday, Uriah Heep made the show and Iris were the guests, but nevertheless, they were incredible as always. By now, I'm sure you all know I'm a huge Iris fan and I will always believe them to be the greatest band ever ). Oh... and yesterday I was on stage, along with Cati and a friend of hers, with iris flowers for Cristi, just after they sang "Floare de Iris" (to quote Cati, "this was sooo coool" ).

And what about Uriah Heep? They compressed a 35 years work in 90 incendiary minutes, ending with the old version of "Lady in Black" (I think everyone was kind of expecting they played it with Iris, but still it was great). They were just incredible, I mean, looking at them you would think they wouldn't have any energy left for touring and shows... but they were like having adrenaline shots made just before the show. So, I was impressed. Again, seing such great artists is a real satisfaction. And what really moved me was seing the hall full of people quite past 30-40 years of age, and this is a good sign that the rock phenomenon in Romania is not limited to 15 year-old girls. What more can I say? It was fantastic!!!!

So, to resume, it was a great weekend. A long weekend, I might add, as I had a bonus day today and didn't go to work. I'm only sad for not being able to take any pictures (you can blame my brother for making me leave the camera at home), so I only have the ones Mihnea and Ioana took (and, of course, I'm not going to post them here, as they are not mine to use... well, maybe just one, along with my thanks). Back to work tomorrow, but it will be a short week. Now I'm waiting for the postman with my invitation for the visa (btw... I'm damn weak, I decided to go to Brasil anyways, but don't tell Ric, he'll just stop doing any efforts ) and for the weekend in the mountains with the dance school . See ya!

Uriah Heep and... Iris, of course ©2006 moonlight / PHOTO by Mihnea

Incredible Placebo

I had reached a point where I was complaining about not having anything interesting happening in my life. All the weekends were the same, spending the time in the internet, or going for a walk in the park, the usual weekend shopping, going to dance in Salsa... I did have some excitement for a a few weeks, but it seems that too is lost now, which is sad...

Well, as if someone wanted to contradict me, yesterday I was at the Placebo concert at Arenele Romane(many thanks to Ulpia for the invitation ). While waiting to go in, I was thinking I would write this long entry about the hour and I half I (we) spent in the Carol Park waiting to go in, because they only opened the gates at a little after 7, although the concert was scheduled to start at that time. But I changed my mind. I'm not going to do a cultural review either, as I am no journalist.

But I will say it was a real pleasure to be there, and a real honour. It is not every day that you see such big a rock band in a live concert in Bucharest. It's true, this summer we had some great artists here, starting with Lake of Tears back in March, then Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Deftones, Bloodhound Gang... and still to come this autumn Cesaria Evora and Dulce Pontes, whom I really want to see. But, unfortunatelly, I didn't get to go to any of those, due to all kind of reasons, mainly money and time.

So... I was saying... we were told that the opening will be made by Dj Rock and AB4. I have no idea who DJ Rock is, but fortunatelly we were not forced to listen to them, I suppose it was because they started the concert so late. But AB4 I kind of missed. They had left Romania a few years ago, and nobody heard anything of them since. So it was a really good surprise seing them and hearing them last night, they did a very good show that lasted for more than half an hour, with some very good new songs. It was a good opening for Placebo, mostly because I think everybody was curious to see what they have been doing for so long.

And talking about Placebo, they were great. I was kind of missing real rock, you know, classic rock, good rock, not the one that you hear nowadays, that makes 16 year-old chicks go crazy. I felt like going back a few years, when I was a high-school girl and everything was so simple . It was really great, they sang both old a new songs, and the new album, "Meds", sounds great, Placebo-style. They didn't sing too much, about 1 hour, but it was fantastic (regardless of the technical problems they had) and the crowd was satisfied (at least I think they were, and I hope too). I was happy that I was able to see them, because it is such a rare opportunity to see such an extraordinary band live in Romania (did I say that again? I believe I did... ). And again, many thanks to Ulpia for the invitation. It was a great night and I had my batteries recharged for some time, so it will take a couple of weeks until complaining again that nothing interesting ever happens to me .

Incredible Placebo & PHOTO© 2006 moonlight