Much has been said about the relationship Goran Bregovic with the traditional Balkan music and musicians for centuries have kept alive.

Clearly, Bregovich has assembled his international career by Popular songs in the Balkans, many of the gypsy tradition, taking it a prominence that should not be yours.

On the other hand, ¿there would be a phenomenon of Balkan music in Western Europe if there were Bregovic?

And yet ¿matter much if Western Europe had not discovered the Balkan Gypsy music?

All of these responses, will be answering. At the moment, to charges of appropriation, Bregovic answers with such niceties:

“(…)Experiences such as the Plaza Mayor enable you to discover music that never leave the home screen. He said a young woman to her friend: “I do not know who they are, or where they come”. Refers to Irina Loghin ya Sorin Tanase, Romanians with two veteran singers who enjoyed hundreds of your fellow, and tired of signing autographs. In choruses were heard Bregovic draws, who is accused of appropriating melodies of the Gypsies. He argues that the old art of catching the traditions they have exercised from Stravinsky to Bartok. And laughing takes the saying that great artists and geniuses steal copied: “Yes, I steal, I'm not a genius, but theft”. Carlos Galilea, Country, 20/05/2003

I'll stick with the reflection that makes Comaandante's Blog, special reference to the gypsy musician Saban Bajramovic, who worked extensively with Bregovic: “It would have gone unnoticed by the world payo if not for Bregovic and Kusturica. Either borrowed and popularized his songs. As a result there were those who claimed rights to Saban, but this happened all, free once more. If you listen to Goran Saban and then know exactly where the heart is, and where the intelligence, and“.

Y, for sample, a jewel.

In June 2008, Saban Bajramovic (Saban written, leído Shaban Bairamovich) it was.

I, supuesta periodista musicals, I just discovered an unjustifiable delay of many years on a trip to the Balkans and tried, from my very limited means, post something about it in the Spanish press. I was late, While I write this note only admired when he died:

“A Saban Bajramovic I missed that chance meeting with the right person that would make him a worldwide star of Gypsy music, for Sabo I had it all: a striking physical, mixture Fary, Cheb Khaled and Charles Bronson, charisma in abundance, cockiness, self-confidence and, especially a jet unmistakable voice and unique.

If life were fair, had he not been so thug, his talent should have been at the head of the summer festivals in rich countries, but did not quite jell.

With 19 years old Šabo entered the prison for desertion from military service. He did, say, love for a woman. The prison was, for five and a half years, its university, which claimed to have read 20.000 books, where he set up a band that played topics Frank Sinatra. In the three bare but intense paragraphs he devotes to the English Wikipedia includes statements such as "who has never been in jail, not a real person "; also says that with its first profit, bought a Mercedes and hired two bodyguards, symptomatic of enormous character gestures was Bajramovic. Admired by Marshal Tito, the father of Yugoslavia, named "King of Gypsy music" by Indira Gandhi during his visit in the India, their tracks, outside the territories of the former Yugoslavia, where recordings abound, can be followed in the disk Queen and Kings (Asphalt Tango / Karonte) of Fanfare Ciocarlia, or two splendid works which he signed together with Mostar Sevdah Reunion. Precisely Dragi Sestic, of this group, said it: "In all these years, his music has been constantly stolen, copied and imitated by musicians famous and unknown. Not worth it or promises or contracts. In fact, he was never interested in protecting their work. Instead of engaging in make millions, he lives and has always lived: day by day, music by, going where it pleases and without recognizing any limit ".

Here I leave, so that you split the heart, one of the most impressive versions Djelem Djelem. Sabo and Cubism.

For more information:

http://musicagitana.blogspot.com/2008/06/muere-saban-bajramovic.html

www.sabanbajramovic.com