Sarmalele Reci concert @ Club A, a lesson of Romanian music

Newsroom 08/02/2011 | 14:28

Sarmalele Reci will hold a concert in Club A, in Bucharest, on February 9. One of the best known Romanian rock bands, with a tradition of 17 years on the music scene, will thus return to the club where it made its first appearances. The concert is part of the anniversary series Club A, which is celebrating 40 years since its birth.

Sarmalele Reci (translatable as “The Cold Cabbage Rolls”) are known for their acid, ironic, quite subversive and sometimes romantic lyrics. Thus, some of their best known hits hold quite suggestive and amusing titles, as is the case of ”Ana are mere” (“Ana has apples”), ”Cocktail Molotov”, ”Violeta duce galeata la gunoi” (“Violeta is taking out the garbage”), ”Mi-a facut tata firma” (“My father made me a firm”), ”Blonda din blocul meu” (“The blonde from my apartment building”), or are more romantically oriented, as ”Telefonul nu mai suna” (“The telephone stopped ringing”).

The band, formed of Andras Zoltan, Emil Viciu, Dan Georgescu, Gabi Dragan and Mircea Horvat, personifies the music of the students and younger generations that emerged after the fall of communism in Romania and now, as the press release states, they will return to the audience that consecrated them, the students.