FORM Live Session at Zazen: Fanfare Ciocărlia

Anyone who has heard Fanfare Ciocărlia can agree on one thing – no brass band has ever played as fast as this before. Make that two things: no brass band had ever sounded like this before! Their village's isolation,  situated in a misty valley, its dirt roads occupied by flocks of geese,  horses, and carts, meant that, across generations, it remained hidden from the outside world, untouched by the effects of communism and  allowing its eighty Gypsy farming families to continue to live a  traditional rural lifestyle. This same remote quality also meant that  brass musical traditions developed under Ottoman rule continued to exist  in the village when they had long died out in the rest of Romania.  Characterized by breakneck speed, technical chops, ripping rhythms, and  sweet and sour horns, these combined elements separate them from any  other brass band on earth.
 
 
The Times of London described it as “a heavy, heavy monster sound” and  Fanfare’s recordings have taken their eerie Balkan groove into dance  clubs across the planet. They were commissioned by Sacha Baron Cohen to  cut the biker anthem “Born To Be Wild” and “Just the 2 Of Us" for the  Borat I and II movie soundtrack and have been sampled and covered, championed and emulated, by countless DJs, bands and Gypsy orchestras  across the world. Fanfare Ciocărlia has released ten albums, several of  which have topped the European World Music charts, and their DVD “Brass On Fire” was acclaimed by Songlines magazine as “setting a new standard  for music documentaries”. They have played over 3000 concerts worldwide,  and put simply: nobody does it better, harder, faster, and funkier than  Fanfare Ciocărlia.

Co-producers: TVR Cluj, TVR Cultural, TVR 3, Asphalt Tango Records, BUBU  Booking House & Events.

This event is 18+ or accompanied by parents or legal guardians.