Now and Then, by Multumult

Now and Then

by Multumult

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1.	Iesi, soare! (Come Out, Sun!) 09:58	lyrics	buy track
Traditional lyrics and additional lyrics by Călin Torsan.
2.	Brâul (Old Wallachian Dance) 06:18	info	buy track
3.	Hora soldaților (Soldier's Round Dance) 08:58	info	buy track
4.	Când era în vremea mea... (Back In My Time...) 13:23	lyrics	buy track
Traditional lyrics.
5.	Maneaua din Clejani (Oriental Song From Clejani) 04:52	lyrics	buy track
Traditional lyrics.
6.	Cântec în stil levantin (Song In Levantine Style) 04:28	info	buy track
7.	Doina cucului (Cuckoo’s Song) 07:59	info	buy track
8.	Atica (Romanian Dance) 03:59	info	buy track
9.	Gata-ti, fata, laduta (Girl, Finish Packing Up Your Trunk! 08:29	lyrics	buy track
Traditional lyrics.

about

Multumult, based in Romania, has started as a project in 2015 and continues with its original aspiration, the practice of free music and creating a group where different improvising artists can meet and manifest.

This explains our changing avatars, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electric, taking the ever changing shapes of duets, trios or quartets. A main source of inspiration for the group is Romanian folk music, an important area of improvisation and oral culture. This is also reflected in the use of some traditional musical instruments.

The nucleus around which all these stories spin is composed of: Călin Torsan (wind instruments), Vasile Gherghel (bass guitar, electronics, acoustic scenography) and Marius Achim (percussion). The violinist Marina Pingulescu joined the group in 2019.

The group has played in Romania, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Hungary and Turkey. Multumult has been involved in connecting artistic events (literary encounters or the opening of exhibitions), composed and interpreted music for two silent films and for a short artistic movie.

Cultural sonic landscapes blends with electronic sound processing. Small bits of information, coded in a language that transcend the world of words.

We are a strange tribe without houses. Our animals have inappropriate colors and their milk sometimes drains from the sky. Like white rain. Sometimes we gather in the sockets around the sacred fire and make sounds happen; it's the gift that we'll leave to this world. The shaman's dream is the illusion of illusions. Like rainy white.

credits

released October 1, 2021

Călin Torsan (traditional whistles, clarinet, voice)
Vasile Gherghel (electronics, mixing)
Marius Achim (electronic percussion)
Marina Pingulescu (violin, voice)

These recordings were made in Bucharest at the beginning of 2020.
Two dogs were constantly sleeping in the studio: Bruno and Eda.

Traditional lyrics for 1, 4 and 9 (except track 1: traditional lyrics and Călin Torsan’s lyrics).

Traditional songs: 1 (old sun invocation), 2 (peasant song transcribed by traveler Franz Josef Sulzer, in the book Geschichte des transalpinischen Daciens, das ist: der Walachey, Moldau und Bessarabiens – Vienna, 1781),
4 (old urban traditional song), 5, 7, 8 and 9 (wedding song from Transylvania). Track 3 is an improvisation performed on the caval (a shepherd flute), on a theme composed by Călin Torsan. Track 6 is a free improvisation.

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