I.: István Nagy - voice, vocal bass, guitar, tamboura, blues-harp, Ilona Farkas - voice, dance, István Nagy Jr. - voice, guitar, cajon, water can, wooden spoons, vocal bass, Nikolett Nagy – voice, dance, guitar II.: Sergey Erdenko – violin, vocals, George Osmolovsky – violin, vocals, Michael Savichev – guitar, vocals Karavan familia, an urban gipsy folk group, plays traditional gipsy music arrangements from the various dialects of Romani language gipsy folklore with authentic, yet individu...al sounds. Their programme includes gipsy folk songs from the Balkans to Andalusia, performed in their own style. This is why their music features the elements of Mississippi blues, flamenco, rumba and those of gipsy music from the Balkans. The specialty of the group is in its unique style and repertoire, as well as in the fact that it is a real family venture. The parents, István Nagy (vocal, guitar, tamboura and blues-harp) and Ilona Farkas (vocals, dance) used to play in the Romanyi Rota and Romano Kokalo ensembles. István Nagy founded his first group, Karavan with his wife, Ica in 2002. Their first CD came out in 2002, which they recorded with the world famous gipsy trumpeter Boban Markovic from Serbia. At the end of 2003 the group enlarged with the couple’s children, who sort of “grew into” music while being next to their parents. István, who was born in 1991, plays the guitar, sings, plays the spoons, the cajon and the water can, while Nikolett, who was born in 1993, sings, dances and plays the guitar. Today Karavan familia is a family folk ensemble, and as such it mediates gypsy culture with unique effects and sounds. They perform known and less known gipsy songs originating from places ranging from Russia to Spain, and from Hungary to the Balkans in an individual style – mostly with their own lyrics written in the Romani language. Their aim is to preserve and popularise the music and human values of gypsy culture. Russian Gypsy music became extremely popular in the late 18th century during the time of Catherine the Great with their passionate and hitherto unknown style of performing Russian folk songs. After the “Great October Socialist Revolution”, the musical enthusiasm of the aristocrats fell out of favour and so the most famous Gypsy musicians, such as Piotr Leschenko and Jean Goulesco were forced to emigrate. These days, the international revival in folk music has restored Russian Gypsy music to its former glory and Loyko is the best known Gypsy band in the world. Classically trained Sergey Erdenko formed the group in 1990 and since then, the leading Russian Gypsy musicians have played with them. They are artists who are equally at home in Gypsy music, jazz and classical. This is how Loyko’s unmistakable style developed in which the “romantic Russian soul” is just as palpable as the no less fiery music of Spanish Gypsies and in which Russian folk music is profoundly interwoven with the group’s own compositions.
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