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Sunday, February 6, 2011

(Part 2) Edward Maya feat. Vika Jigulina - Desert Rain ( Official Video ). Also, Sunday Stamps! (meme) - I feature a philatelic stamp with a CIMPOI (Romanian bagpipes), whose haunting sounds will thrill you in this videoclip!



Please explore: http://www.edwardmaya.com


See the other videoclips on YouTube.com about Edward Maya , Vika Jigulina, and other versions featuring Mia Martina or Alicia.[more to come - at least one from every country in the world, I wish! :) ]
See again the worldwide sensation videoclip "Stereo Love"!


Y'all You all have heard the sounds of Scottish bagpipes before.

But I bet you have never heard the sounds of Romanian bagpipes!
If you listen (loudly!) to this videoclip music and you DON'T just love the CIMPOI, then...what the hell is wrong with you? oh, well! :D :D :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimpoi



I have already posted this separately, on Facebook:
To properly enjoy the "progressive house" music of Edward Maya, you better turn up (way up) the volume of your speakers! 

Feel the rhythm, the good vibrations, the haunting melodic line, the exquisite mastery of the Romanian bagpipes (not Scottish) inspired from the virtuoso Ion Laceanu.
[UPDATE: Somebody said that the CIMPOI (Romanian bagpipes) segment from Desert Rain song is inspired from Dumitru Zamfira, also a cimpoi master like Ion Laceanu.] 

But the best musical instrument in the world is a great human voice! 

Nonetheless, welcome to discover the Romanian bagpipes!


The stamp that I bring today to the spotlight of Sunday Stamps meme features a CIMPOI [English pronounciation: chim-poy], which is an old, traditional musical instrument - Romanian Bagpipes.
I placed that stamp at the top of this image; for your viewing pleasure, I scanned it in hi-res 300 dpi, so click on it, then click again to zoom in:


One of the greatest merits of stamp collecting/ philately is that it triggers your appetite for learning, researching and enriching your general culture.

What the heck means ROMINA, on the stamps? - you might ask as you sit there, in your neck-of-the-woods. :) :)

"Communist Romania, previously the Kingdom of Romania, was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc. The dominant role of the Romanian Communist Party was enshrined in its successive constitutions between the proclamation of the republic in late 1947 and the Romanian Revolution, resulting in the death of Nicolae Ceauşescu on 25 December 1989. Officially, the country was called the Romanian People's Republic (Romanian: Republica Populară Romînă; RPR) from 1947 to 1965, and the Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România; RSR) from 1965 to 1989. Today, Romania is a unitary parliamentary republic and a member of the European Union."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republica_Popular%C4%83_Rom%C3%AEn%C4%83

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4 comments:

  1. PostcardyFebruary 6, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    Nice music. You're right--I never heard of a Romanian bagpipe before. I don't know what the other instruments are either.

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  2. viridianFebruary 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM

    It's worth clicking on the image of the stamps to see these in a larger image.

    My daughter doesn't like Stereo Love because of the instruments used. I told here that's why I like it. :-)
    Thanks for your participation.

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  3. DeborahFebruary 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM

    Interesting stamps and post.

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  4. JoyFebruary 7, 2011 at 7:25 AM

    Romania has some interesting instruments. The bagpipes not dissimilar to Breton ones, one instrument many cultures.

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