Meet the Gipsy Kings

I discovered the Gipsy Kings early in the 1990s and fell in love with their acoustic sounds of Spanish flamenco and salsa. The Gipsy Kings are made up of two families of brothers. They started out as a Gipsy band travelling about playing at weddings, festivals and busking in the streets. Hence, their name the “Gipsy Kings’. They were enormously popular throughout the North Africa, Middle East and Europe. They live anything but the gipsy life now being very well known internationally but they have not forgotten their humble beginning.

Bamboleo – Gipsy Kings

The Best of the Gipsy Kings

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The Balinese Monkey Chant – an excerpt from Baraka

The Balinese Monkey Chant is an excerpt from the beautiful non-verbal film, Baraka. The rhythms and beat are divine. Baraka was filmed back in 1992 by Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. The music adds to the visual feast and includes musicians such as Michael Stearns and Dead Can Dance. Twenty Four different countries have been represented throughout the film.

Baraka takes the viewer into a delightful trip around the world witnessing splendid landscapes, cultures and humanity. It also makes one question many things about our world and what is becoming of it. I watched it again recently and found it even more moving that the first time I watched it. Why would that be?

Balinese Monkey Chant

Baraka – Special Edition

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Where are 2CELLOS From?

2CELLOS are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser from Croatia. My 16 year old introduced me to them just this week after she came across them on Youtube. Their passionate, dueling cellos version of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal has taken the world by storm and I personally, can’t get enough of it either!

2CELLOS can also be joined on Twitter and Facebook. Go and check them out!

2CELLOS (Sulic & Hauser) Smooth Criminal

2Cellos

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Haunting soundtrack from ‘The Piano’

Michael Nyman is an English composer but I know him mostly for the moving sound track created for ‘The Piano’ back in 1993. I never tire of watching the movie for its cinematography and the way it captures the harsh New Zealand landscapes. If you don’t know this film or yet to hear the soundtrack, take a listen and be prepared for a visual and audio feast!

The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion

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