https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=124.38.50.169Wikipedia - User contributions [en]2024-11-16T02:21:47ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.3https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Florin_Puc%C4%83&diff=163574319Florin Pucă2007-10-10T14:49:31Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Florin Pucă''', April 24, 1932 to February 23, 1990, was a Romanian graphic artist. He was a close collaborator of [[Leonid Dimov]]'s, having illustrated several of his literary works. Other writers whose books he illustrated are: [[Gheorghe Pituṭ]], [[Mircea Micu]], [[Nichita Stănescu]], [[Petre Stoica]], [[Ion Băieşu]], [[Modest Morariu]].<br />
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[[Category:Romanian artists]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe_Cr%C4%83ciun&diff=162600821Gheorghe Crăciun2007-10-06T04:10:14Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Gheorghe Crăciun''' (born [[1950]], dead January 30, [[2007]]) was a [[Romania]]n [[writer]] and [[translator]]. <br />
<br />
Crăciun was born in [[Tohanu Vechi]], now [[Braşov County]]. In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist.<br />
He graduated from a highschool in [[Sighisoara]], and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of [[Bucharest]].<br />
He is considered an important author of the 1980s generation in Romanian literature. <ref>[http://www.kunstundwort.de/Seiten/aktuelleAusgabe/Text4.html] An article in English explaining the concept of generation in Romanian contemporary literature</ref> <br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
Romanian Novels<br />
*''Acte originale. Copii legalizate'' (1982)<br />
*''Compunere cu paralele inegale'' (1988) <br />
*''Frumoasa fără corp '' (1993)<br />
*''Pupa russa'' (2004)<br />
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Translated works<br />
*''Experiment in Romanian Post-War Literature'' (1998)<br />
*''Images & Texts / lmages et textes'' (2000)<br />
*''Composition aux paralleles inegales'' (2001)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
<references/><br />
{{Romania-bio-stub}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Craciun, Gheorghe}}<br />
[[Category:People from Braşov County]]<br />
[[Category:Romanian writers]]<br />
[[ro:Gheorghe Crăciun]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gheorghe_Cr%C4%83ciun&diff=162600723Gheorghe Crăciun2007-10-06T04:09:28Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Gheorghe Crăciun''' (born [[1950]], dead January 30, [[2007]]) was a [[Romania]]n [[writer]] and [[translator]]. <br />
<br />
Crăciun was born in [[Tohanu Vechi]], now [[Braşov County]]. In addition to being a novelist and a translator, he was also a literary theorist.<br />
He graduated from a highschool in [[Sighisoara]], and later studied at the Philology Department of the University of [[Bucharest]].<br />
He is considered an important author of the 1980s generation in Romanian literature. <ref>[http://www.kunstundwort.de/Seiten/aktuelleAusgabe/Text4.html] An article in English explaining the concept of generation in Romanian contemporary literature</ref> <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
Romanian Novels<br />
*''Acte originale. Copii legalizate'' (1982)<br />
*''Compunere cu paralele inegale'' (1988) <br />
*''Frumoasa fără corp '' (1993)<br />
*''Pupa russa'' (2004)<br />
<br />
Translated works<br />
*''Experiment in Romanian Post-War Literature'' (1998)<br />
*''Images & Texts / lmages et textes'' (2000)<br />
*''Composition aux paralleles inegales'' (2001)<br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<references/><br />
{{Romania-bio-stub}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Craciun, Gheorghe}}<br />
[[Category:People from Braşov County]]<br />
[[Category:Romanian writers]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Mircea_Florian_(musician)&diff=162590897Talk:Mircea Florian (musician)2007-10-06T02:54:16Z<p>124.38.50.169: ←Created page with 'Does anyone know how to disambiguate Andrei Cristea and Gheorghe Popescu in this article from the ones that the links take you to?'</p>
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<div>Does anyone know how to disambiguate Andrei Cristea and Gheorghe Popescu in this article from the ones that the links take you to?</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mircea_Florian_(musician)&diff=162590657Mircea Florian (musician)2007-10-06T02:52:30Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>Musician and multimedia artist '''Mircea Florian''' started his musical career as a [[folk music|folk]] singer, in the late 60s. Soon, he developed a fusion between [[Romanian folklore]] and Eastern music, adding <br />
some Indian flavour on the recordings with the use of [[sitar]] (played by [[Ljubisa Ristic]]) and [[tabla]] played by [[Arif Djafri]]. Although [[psychedelic music]] was not well seen in 70's<br />
Romania, '''M.F.''' (guitar, cobză, voice etc.) - with several <br />
guest musicians - realised some remarkable recordings of psych-folk<br />
music. In the 80s he began experimenting with electronics and started <br />
playing [[new-wave]] music, with his band '''Florian din Transilvania'''.<br />
<br />
Born in [[Satu Mare]] on Dec. 5, 1949, he studied cybernetics at the Faculty of Economic Calculations in Bucharest from 1967 to 1972. <br />
<br />
His first musical appearance was with '''Zburătorii''', the band he played in while at the [[Mihai Eminescu]] highschool. In Bucharest, he played for a while with a bandcalled '''[[Lotus]]'''.<br />
<br />
He was the leader of the [[Ceata Melopoică]], a concept-band, whose members were often changing, among them being [[Sorin Chifiriuc]], [[Andrei Oiṣteanu]], [[Alexandru Beno]], [[Gabriel (Gabi) Căciulă]], [[Valentin Andronescu]], [[Günther Reininger]], [[Andrei Cristea]], [[Eugen Gondi]], [[Dietrich Krauser]], [[Mihai Creţu]], [[Costin Petrescu]], [[Alexandru Mitaru]], [[Alexe Conta]], [[Mircea Dordoi]], [[Ortansa Păun]], [[Sorin Baroţi]], [[Gheorghe Popescu]], [[Dorin Liviu Zaharia]], [[Doru Zaharia]], [[Mihai Pintilie]].<br />
<br />
After several times being allowed to visit Western countries with scholarships or for performances, he decided to defect in 1986 while in the [[United States of America]], and later settled down in [[Germany]].<br />
<br />
Since the late 1980s he has been combining visual arts with music to create sound sculptures, sound instalations, collages.<br />
<br />
Recently he has been performing with the [[Shukar Collective]] <br />
<br />
He is said to have composed over 130 pieces, and has won 21 distinctions so far for his works in [[Romania]], Germany, [[Japan]], and [[Great Britain]].<br />
<br />
==External link==<br />
*[http://www.tralalart.com Mircea Florian's website]<br />
*[http://www.satu-mare.ro/persoane/mirceaflorian.html] (in Romanian)<br />
[[Category:Romanian singers|Florian, Mircea]]<br />
[[ro:Mircea Florian]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mircea_Florian_(musician)&diff=162590556Mircea Florian (musician)2007-10-06T02:51:40Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>Musician and multimedia artist '''Mircea Florian''' started his musical career as a [[folk music|folk]] singer, in the late 60s. Soon, he developed a fusion between [[Romanian folklore]] and Eastern music, adding <br />
some Indian flavour on the recordings with the use of [[sitar]] (played by [[Ljubisa Ristic]]) and [[tabla]] played by [[Arif Djafri]]. Although [[psychedelic music]] was not well seen in 70's<br />
Romania, '''M.F.''' (guitar, cobză, voice etc.) - with several <br />
guest musicians - realised some remarkable recordings of psych-folk<br />
music. In the 80s he began experimenting with electronics and started <br />
playing [[new-wave]] music, with his band '''Florian din Transilvania'''.<br />
<br />
Born in [[Satu Mare]] on Dec. 5, 1949, he studied cybernetics at the Faculty of Economic Calculations in Bucharest from 1967 to 1972. <br />
<br />
His first musical appearance was with '''Zburătorii''', the band he played in while at the [[Mihai Eminescu]] highschool. In Bucharest, he played for a while with a bandcalled '''[[Lotus]]'''.<br />
<br />
He was the leader of the [[Ceata Melopoică]], a concept-band, whose members were often changing, among them being [[Sorin Chifiriuc]], [[Andrei Oiṣteanu]], [[Alexandru Beno]], [[Gabriel (Gabi) Căciulă]], [[Valentin Andronescu]], [[Günther Reininger]], [[Andrei Cristea]], [[Eugen Gondi]], [[Dietrich (Dixi) Krauser]], [[Mihai Creţu]], [[Costin Petrescu]], [[Alexandru (Sandu) Mitaru]], [[Alexe Conta]], [[Mircea Dordoi]], [[Ortansa Păun]], [[Sorin Baroţi]], [[Gheorghe (Gopo) Popescu]], [[Dorin Liviu Zaharia]], [[Doru Zaharia]], [[Mihai Pintilie]].<br />
<br />
After several times being allowed to visit Western countries with scholarships or for performances, he decided to defect in 1986 while in the [[United States of America]], and later settled down in [[Germany]].<br />
<br />
Since the late 1980s he has been combining visual arts with music to create sound sculptures, sound instalations, collages.<br />
<br />
Recently he has been performing with the [[Shukar Collective]] <br />
<br />
He is said to have composed over 130 pieces, and has won 21 distinctions so far for his works in [[Romania]], Germany, [[Japan]], and [[Great Britain]].<br />
<br />
==External link==<br />
*[http://www.tralalart.com Mircea Florian's website]<br />
*[http://www.satu-mare.ro/persoane/mirceaflorian.html] (in Romanian)<br />
[[Category:Romanian singers|Florian, Mircea]]<br />
[[ro:Mircea Florian]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mircea_Florian_(musician)&diff=162590494Mircea Florian (musician)2007-10-06T02:51:13Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>Musician and multimedia artist '''Mircea Florian''' started his musical career as a [[folk music|folk]] singer, in the late 60s. Soon, he developed a fusion between [[Romanian folklore]] and Eastern music, adding <br />
some Indian flavour on the recordings with the use of [[sitar]] (played by [[Ljubisa Ristic]]) and [[tabla]] played by [[Arif Djafri]]. Although [[psychedelic music]] was not well seen in 70's<br />
Romania, '''M.F.''' (guitar, cobză, voice etc.) - with several <br />
guest musicians - realised some remarkable recordings of psych-folk<br />
music. In the 80s he began experimenting with electronics and started <br />
playing [[new-wave]] music, with his band '''Florian din Transilvania'''.<br />
<br />
Born in [[Satu Mare]] on Dec. 5, 1949, he studied cybernetics at the Faculty of Economic Calculations in Bucharest from 1967 to 1972. <br />
<br />
His first musical appearance was with '''Zburătorii''', the band he played in while at the [[Mihai Eminescu]] highschool. In Bucharest, he played for a while with a bandcalled '''[[Lotus]]'''.<br />
<br />
He was the leader of the [[Ceata Melopoică]], a concept-band, whose members were often changing, among them being [[Sorin Chifiriuc]], [[Andrei Oiṣteanu]], [[Alexandru Beno]], [[Gabriel (Gabi) Căciulă]], [[Valentin Andronescu]], [[Günther Reininger]], [[Andrei Cristea]], [[Eugen Gondi]], [[Dietrich (Dixi) Krauser]], [[Mihai Creţu]], [[Costin Petry (Petrescu)]], [[Alexandru (Sandu) Mitaru]], [[Alexe Conta]], [[Mircea Dordoi]], [[Ortansa Păun]], [[Sorin Baroţi]], [[Gheorghe (Gopo) Popescu]], [[Dorin Liviu Zaharia]], [[Doru Zaharia]], [[Mihai Pintilie]].<br />
<br />
After several times being allowed to visit Western countries with scholarships or for performances, he decided to defect in 1986 while in the [[United States of America]], and later settled down in [[Germany]].<br />
<br />
Since the late 1980s he has been combining visual arts with music to create sound sculptures, sound instalations, collages.<br />
<br />
Recently he has been performing with the [[Shukar Collective]] <br />
<br />
He is said to have composed over 130 pieces, and has won 21 distinctions so far for his works in [[Romania]], Germany, [[Japan]], and [[Great Britain]].<br />
<br />
==External link==<br />
*[http://www.tralalart.com Mircea Florian's website]<br />
*[http://www.satu-mare.ro/persoane/mirceaflorian.html] (in Romanian)<br />
[[Category:Romanian singers|Florian, Mircea]]<br />
[[ro:Mircea Florian]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mircea_Florian_(musician)&diff=162590412Mircea Florian (musician)2007-10-06T02:50:39Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>Musician and multimedia artist '''Mircea Florian''' started his musical career as a [[folk music|folk]] singer, in the late 60s. Soon, he developed a fusion between [[Romanian folklore]] and Eastern music, adding <br />
some Indian flavour on the recordings with the use of [[sitar]] (played by [[Ljubisa Ristic]]) and [[tabla]] played by [[Arif Djafri]]. Although [[psychedelic music]] was not well seen in 70's<br />
Romania, '''M.F.''' (guitar, cobză, voice etc.) - with several <br />
guest musicians - realised some remarkable recordings of psych-folk<br />
music. In the 80s he began experimenting with electronics and started <br />
playing [[new-wave]] music, with his band '''Florian din Transilvania'''.<br />
<br />
Born in [[Satu Mare]] on Dec. 5, 1949, he studied cybernetics at the Faculty of Economic Calculations in Bucharest from 1967 to 1972. <br />
<br />
His first musical appearance was with '''Zburătorii''', the band he played in while at the [[Mihai Eminescu]] highschool. In Bucharest, he played for a while with a bandcalled '''[[Lotus]]'''.<br />
<br />
He was the leader of the [[Ceata Melopoică]], a concept-band, whose members were often changing, among them being [[Sorin Chifiriuc]], [[Andrei Oiṣteanu]], [[Alexandru Beno]], [[Gabriel (Gabi) Căciulă]], [[Valentin Andronescu]], [[Günther Reininger]], [[Andrei Cristea]], [[Eugen Gondi]], [[Dietrich (Dixi) Krauser]], [[Mihai Creţu]], [[Costin Petry (Petrescu)]], [[Alexandru (Sandu) Mitaru]], [[Alexe Conta]], [[Mircea Dordoi]], [[Ortansa Păun]], [[Sorin Baroţi]], [[Gheorghe (Gopo) Popescu]], [[Dorin-Liviu Zaharia]], [[Doru Zaharia]], [[Mihai Pintilie]].<br />
<br />
After several times being allowed to visit Western countries with scholarships or for performances, he decided to defect in 1986 while in the [[United States of America]], and later settled down in [[Germany]].<br />
<br />
Since the late 1980s he has been combining visual arts with music to create sound sculptures, sound instalations, collages.<br />
<br />
Recently he has been performing with the [[Shukar Collective]] <br />
<br />
He is said to have composed over 130 pieces, and has won 21 distinctions so far for his works in [[Romania]], Germany, [[Japan]], and [[Great Britain]].<br />
<br />
==External link==<br />
*[http://www.tralalart.com Mircea Florian's website]<br />
*[http://www.satu-mare.ro/persoane/mirceaflorian.html] (in Romanian)<br />
[[Category:Romanian singers|Florian, Mircea]]<br />
[[ro:Mircea Florian]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160191302Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:31:48Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
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<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of the books which he translated are:<br />
**[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
**[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos (The life of Our Lor)<br />
**[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii (The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage)<br />
<br />
**[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
**[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii (Of Human Bondage)<br />
**[[D.H. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise (The Man Who Died)<br />
**[[Oscar Wilde]]- Toate povestirile <br />
<br />
Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160191219Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:31:14Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of his translated books are:<br />
**[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
**[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos (The life of Our Lor)<br />
**[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii (The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage)<br />
<br />
**[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
**[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii (Of Human Bondage)<br />
**[[D.H. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise (The Man Who Died)<br />
**[[Oscar Wilde]]- Toate povestirile <br />
<br />
Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160190201Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:24:01Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of his translated books are:<br />
**[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
**[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos / The life of Our Lord<br />
**[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii<br />
<br />
**[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
**[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii<br />
**[[D.H. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise<br />
**[[Oscar Wilde]]- Toate povestirile<br />
<br />
Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160190160Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:23:47Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of his translated books are:<br />
**[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
**[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos / The life of Our Lord<br />
**[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii<br />
<br />
**[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
**[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii<br />
**[[D.H. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise<br />
**[[Oscar Wilde)- Toate povestirile<br />
<br />
Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160190045Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:22:47Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of his translated books are:<br />
**[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
**[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos / The life of Our Lord<br />
**[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii<br />
<br />
**[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
**[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii<br />
**[[H.D. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise<br />
**[[Oscar Wilde)- Toate povestirile<br />
<br />
Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160189893Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:21:49Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{hangon}} I will try to get more information. Google him and see that he gets 13,000 hits. He is not a nobody at all.<br />
<br />
<br />
Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
He wrote ""Didactica traducerii" (A Translation Didactics)<br />
<br />
<br />
Some of his translated books are:<br />
[[Ioan Flora]], ""Cincizeci de romane si alte utopii"" / Fifty Novels and Other Utopias, trans. Andrei Bantas and [[Richard Collins]] (Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1996).<br />
[[Charles Dickens]] - Viaṭa Mântuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos / The life of Our Lord<br />
[[Arthur Koestler]]- Al treisprezecelea trib: Khazarii<br />
<br />
[[Samuel Butler]]- Ṣi tu vei fi ṭărână<br />
[[Somerset Maugham]]- Plăcerile vieṭii<br />
[[H.D. Lawrence]]- Omul care murise<br />
[[Oscar Wilde)- Toate povestirile<br />
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Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrei_Banta%C8%99&diff=160188474Andrei Bantaș2007-09-25T05:11:55Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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Romanian dictionary author, translator, teacher. B. Nov. 30, 1930, d. 1997. Professor of English language and literature at the University of [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]].<br />
Together with [[Leon Levitchi]] he is one of the best known authors of English/Romanian dictionaries.<br />
The ''Andrei Bantaṣ Translation Prize'' is named after him.<br />
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Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trei_culori</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eugen_Barbu&diff=152468033Eugen Barbu2007-08-20T14:18:30Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox Writer<br />
| name = Eugen Barbu<br />
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| birth_date = [[February 20]], [[1924]]<br />
| birth_place = [[Bucharest]]<br />
| death_date = [[September 7]], [[1993]]<br />
| death_place = [[Bucharest]]<br />
| occupation = novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, journalist<br />
| nationality = [[Romania]]n<br />
| period = 1955–1993<br />
| genre = [[historical novel]], [[fiction]]<br />
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| movement = [[Realism (arts)|Realism]], [[Neorealism (art)|neorealism]]<br />
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| influences = [[Mateiu Caragiale]], [[Tudor Arghezi]], [[Curzio Malaparte]]<br />
| influenced = [[Corneliu Vadim Tudor]]<br />
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'''Eugen Barbu''' ([[February 20]], [[1924]] — [[September 7]], [[1993]]) was a [[Romania]]n [[Modern literature|modern]] novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the [[Romanian Academy]]. The latter position was vehemently criticized by those who contended that he [[Plagiarism|plagiarized]] in his novel ''Incognito'' and for the [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]] campaigns he initiated in the newspapers ''[[Săptămâna]]'' and ''România Mare'' which he founded and led.<ref>Grigurcu; Martin; Tismăneanu, p.183, 225</ref> He also founded, alongside his disciple [[Corneliu Vadim Tudor]], the ultra-[[nationalist]], [[Xenophobia|xenophobic]], anti-Semitic and [[Anti-Americanism|Anti-American]] [[Greater Romania Party]] (PRM).<ref>Martin</ref> <br />
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His most famous writings are the novels ''Groapa'' (1957) and ''Principele'' (1969).<ref>Călin</ref> Barbu's prose, in which the influence of [[Neorealism (art)|neorealism]] has been noted, drew comparison to the works of [[Mateiu Caragiale]], [[Tudor Arghezi]], and [[Curzio Malaparte]].<ref>Iliescu</ref> It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for [[archaism]]s, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.<ref>Grigurcu; Iliescu</ref><br />
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Barbu also wrote several film scripts,<ref>Călin; Iliescu</ref> some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress [[Marga Barbu]] ([[Florin Piersic]]'s ''[[Mărgelatu]]'' series).<br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Early life and literature===<br />
Born in [[Bucharest]], Barbu briefly attended the [[University of Bucharest]]'s Faculty of Law, and then graduated from the Faculty of Letters (1947); he subsequently worked as a journalist for the [[left-wing]] press.<ref>Călin</ref> Attending meetings of the ''[[Sburătorul]]'' society, he made his debut in 1955 (with the [[novella]] ''Munca de jos'').<ref>Călin</ref> The following year, he published his first novel, ''Balonul e rotund''.<ref>Călin</ref><br />
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One of the few persons trusted with official criticism on both political and literary issues during the [[Communist Romania|communist regime]] &mdash; under [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]], and especially under [[Nicolae Ceauşescu]]),<ref>Martin; Tismăneanu, p.183, 225</ref> &mdash;, he was noted for his early writings in praise of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] achievements such as the [[Sputnik program]],<ref>Grigurcu</ref> and his progressive move to a more nationalist tone as this became condoned (and later encouraged).<ref>Grigurcu; Martin</ref> He was also involved in the [[censorship]] apparatus, a position which, some have argued, he used indiscriminately against his literary rivals.<ref>Grigurcu; Ioanid</ref><br />
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===Official appointments===<br />
His ''Principele'' novel, set during the [[Phanariotes|Phanariote]] era, was interpreted to be an ironic reference to Gheorghiu-Dej's rule and the [[labor camp]]s of the [[Danube-Black Sea Canal]], and was condoned by the regime during a period of relative [[liberalization]] &mdash; cut short by the ''[[July Theses]]'' of 1971.<ref>Deletant, p.182</ref> At the time, he was also an editor of ''[[Luceafărul]]'', before being dismissed following his prolonged and notorious conflicts with younger writers (while the regime was interested in ensuring the latter's confidence).<ref>Grigurcu</ref> Barbu was an informal envoy to the [[United States]] during the late 1960s, visiting the influential exiled scholar [[Mircea Eliade]] at his home in [[Chicago]], unsuccessfully calling for his return, and vouching for a "magnificent reception" to his home country (in order to mark the potential image coup).<ref>Şimonca</ref><br />
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He was several times elected to the [[Great National Assembly]],<ref>Grigurcu; Teodorescu & Mihai</ref> until the plagiarism scandal prevented him from being again proposed for the office.<ref>Teodorescu & Mihai</ref> In 1977, Barbu won the [[Herder Prize]], which permitted him to offer his protegé Tudor a scholarship year in [[Vienna]].<br />
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===Plagiarism scandal and ''Săptămâna''===<br />
In 1979, ''[[România Literară]]'' published a special section in which it placed side by side a text from ''Incognito'' and one taken from a translated work by the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] writer [[Konstantin Paustovsky]]; the two sections were considered virtually identical.<ref>Groşan; Teodorescu & Mihai</ref> The ensuing scandal animated the literary world, and has often been cited as a reference for similar and more recent controversies.<ref>Groşan; Teodorescu & Mihai</ref> Speaking at the time, Barbu dismissed the accusations as [[character assassination]].<ref>Teodorescu & Mihai</ref><br />
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During the 1970s and 80s, he notably launched verbal attacks against Romanian intellectuals who had defected the country, as well as against writers who were critical of the regime<ref>"File dintr-un..."; Tismăneanu, p.225</ref> (the latter included [[Paul Goma]], whom, in 1977, he called "a non-entity").<ref>Ioanid</ref><br />
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Barbu's polemic articles were often obscene in tone,<ref>Tismăneanu, p.225</ref> and their message offered Ceauşescu a nationalist support which [[Vladimir Tismăneanu]] has identified as "[[Chauvinism|chauvinistic]]".<ref>Tismăneanu, p.225</ref> By 1980, Tudor's editorials in ''Săptămâna'' drew complaints from members of the [[History of the Jews in Romania|Jewish-Romanian]] community;<ref>Savaliuc</ref> consequently, Barbu and Tudor came under the attention of the [[Securitate]].<ref>Savaliuc</ref> According to ''[[Ziua]]'', a Securitate file of the time reveals that the two had begun questioning the ''[[détente]]'' between Romania and the [[United States]], contradicting official policy, and theorizing that the [[Most favored nation]] status, which Romania had just received, was actually harming the country (while arguing that data to prove this had been kept hidden by a Jewish plot).<ref>Savaliuc</ref><br />
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Many attacks focused on [[Monica Lovinescu]], who was broadcasting [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] messages on [[Radio Free Europe]] &mdash; in one instance during 1987, Barbu used his column in ''[[Săptămâna]]'' to belittle the work of [[Eugen Lovinescu]], a major literary critic who was Monica Lovinescu's father; this drew criticism from the [[Romanian Communist Party]] (of which Barbu was a member) and alarm from the Securitate, as it went against more restrained official guidelines regarding the works of Eugen Lovinescu.<ref>"File dintr-un..."</ref><br />
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===Post-Revolution===<br />
After the [[Romanian Revolution of 1989|Romanian Revolution]], Barbu and Tudor emerged as ideologists of a new nationalist trend, which largely repeated themes present in previous official discourse, while casting aside references to [[communism]].<ref>Tismăneanu, p.249</ref> Between 1992 and the time of his death, Barbu stood in the [[Chamber of Deputies of Romania|Romanian Chamber of Deputies]] as representative of the [[Greater Romania Party]] for Bucharest.<br />
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In early 2005, eleven years after his death, the satirical magazine ''[[Academia Caţavencu]]'' uncovered and publicized a Securitate file which seems to indicate that Barbu had sexual encounters with underage girls, provided by Tudor and paid for their services.<ref>Popescu</ref> Tudor initially called on the [[CNSAS]] Commission investigating Securitate archives to explain if the find was real, and received a positive answer.<ref>Popescu</ref> He later vehemently dismissed the allegations, indicating that virtually all of the girls' personal data was not found in census records, and that Anita Barton, the only one of them to have actually been found, was aged 19 at the time of her alleged meeting with Barbu.<ref>Popescu</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.revista22.ro/html/index.php?art=1311&nr=2004-11-25 "File dintr-un dosar controversat: C.V. Tudor" ("Sheets from a Controversial File: C.V. Tudor")], in ''[[22 (magazine)|22]]'', November-December 2004<br />
*Liviu Călin, "Tabel cronologic" ("Chronological Table") to the 4th edition of ''Principele'', Minerva, Bucharest, 1977<br />
*[[Dennis Deletant]], ''Ceauşescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989'', M.E. Sharpe, London, 1995 ISBN 1563246333</ref><br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://193.226.7.140/~leonardo/n06/Grigurcu3.htm Gheorghe Grigurcu, "Evocându-l pe Eugen Barbu" ("Recalling Eugen Barbu"), at ''E-Leonardo''] (review of [[Dan Ciachir]]'s ''Când moare o epocă'' ("When an Epoch Dies"),Volume II)<br />
*{{ro icon}} [[Ioan Groşan]], [http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=127475&data=2003-09-15&ziua=8af24a7eda67b819d6a13603420c799c "Beuran, ca Jean Valjean" ("Beuran, Like Jean Valjean")], in ''[[Ziua]]'', September 15, 2003<br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=206316&data=2006-08-30 Nicolae Iliescu, "Nisipul timpului" ("The Sands of Time")], in ''[[Ziua]]'', August 30, 2006<br />
*{{ro icon}} [[Radu Ioanid]], [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/informatiiarticol.phtml?xid=8772 "Paul Goma – între Belleville şi Bucureşti" ("Paul Goma - between Belleville and Bucharest", in ''Observatorul Cultural'']<br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.revista22.ro/html/index.php?art=382&nr=2003-03-10 Mircea Martin, "Cultura română între comunism si naţionalism" ("Romanian Culture between Communism and Nationalism"), Part VI)], in ''22'', March 2003<br />
*{{ro icon}} [[Răsvan Popescu]], [http://www.revista22.ro/html/index.php?nr=2005-02-18&art=1511 "Apărarea lui Vadim" ("Vadim's Defense")], in ''22'', February 2005<br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziua.net/display.php?id=136188&data=2004-01-12 Răzvan Savaliuc, "Liderul PRM urmărit în anii '80 pentru antisemitism" ("PRM's Leader Was Surveilled for Antisemitism during the '80")], in ''Ziua'', January 12, 2004<br />
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/informatiiarticol.phtml?xid=14834 Ovidiu Şimonca, "Mircea Eliade şi 'căderea în lume'" ("Mircea Eliade and 'the Descent into the World'")], review of Florin Ţurcanu, ''Mircea Eliade. Le prisonnier de l'histoire'', in ''Observatorul Cultural''<br />
*{{ro icon}} [[Cristian Teodorescu]], Silviu Mihai, [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=7603&art=19332&diraut=58&cHash=5484e451b5 "Toleranţa românească la impostură: cursul scurt" ("Romanian Tolerance to Imposture: the Short Course")], in ''[[Cotidianul]]'', October 25, 2005<br />
*[[Vladimir Tismăneanu]], ''Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism'', [[University of California Press]], [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], 2003, ISBN 0-52-023747-1<br />
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*{{ro icon}} [http://www.cdep.ro/pls/parlam/structura.mp?idm=26&cam=2&leg=1992 Eugen Barbu at the Chamber of Deputies site]<br />
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[[ro:Eugen Barbu]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Contenders_(band)&diff=143984629The Contenders (band)2007-07-11T15:57:10Z<p>124.38.50.169: /* Third album */</p>
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'''The Contenders''' were one of the most popular Norwegian roots rock bands of the early 1990s, playing more than 200 gigs and releasing three albums.<br />
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==Band members==<br />
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*Bjørn Kulseth – vocals & guitars<br /><br />
*Stein Kulseth – vocals, piano, accordion, guitar & mandolin<br /> <br />
*Odd Eirik Fleischer – bass & vocals<br /> <br />
*Per Ivar Stræte – drums<br /><br />
*Arnfinn Tørrisen – guitars (1991– present)<br /><br />
===Former members===<br />
*Stein Ramberg – guitars (1988–1989)<br /><br />
*Bjørn Gulliksen – vocals & guitars (1987–88)<br /><br />
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==History==<br />
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[[Image:contendersband8.jpg|thumb|right|350px|'''The Contenders in 1988''' (from left) Bjørn Gulliksen, Stein Kulseth, Bjørn Kulseth, Per Ivar Stræte and Odd Eirik Fleischer.]]<br />
In the fall of 1987, Bjørn Kulseth was waiting for the release of his first solo album ''Away'', recorded in England that summer and due for release under the "project name" [[Hi-Yo Silver!]] in March 1988 . Having broken up [[The Act]] in January 1987 after four years of regular gig playing, he was now yearning to get back on stage. <br />
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So initially just to have some fun and play a few gigs, Kulseth rounded up his younger brother Stein and the rhythm section they had played with while growing up in [[Flisa]], a rural village close to the deep forests by the Swedish border. The last recruit was Bjørn Gulliksen, the front man of The Ramblers from [[Kongsberg]] who were also handled by Kulseth's manager. <br />
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From the very first show – playing mostly pub rock classics and a few new originals by the Kulseth brothers – the response was strong. As word got around that the guy from The Act had a new band with three frontmen, offers for gigs started coming in. So when his more pop oriented solo album bombed – great reviews and close to zero sales – Bjørn Kulseth just kept on gigging with The Contenders and writing new songs with his brother. <br />
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After a few months, Bjørn Gulliksen found two bands to be one too many and was replaced by lead guitarist Stein Ramberg, who had played with Bjørn Kulseth in [[The Act]] in 1984.<br />
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In the spring of 1988, The Contenders started a residency at [[Cruise Café]], Oslo’s main venue for Americana music. Every week the band invited other Norwegian performers they respected as special guests: Singers like Trond Granlund, Henning Kvitnes, Jan Dahlen and Pål Andreassen. On the back of this residency, The Contenders were hired to back US singer-songwriter [[Steve Young (musician)|Steve Young]] (best known for [[Eagles]]' cover of his song “Seven Bridges Road”) on a Norwegian tour.<br />
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In the summer of 1988 the band recorded demos of three of their own songs. A version of “Ain't That Brave” from this session was included on the Norwegian Garage Rock collection ''Rock 'n' Roll Stowaways Vol. 1''. Later that summer they played alongside [[Tom Russell]] and [[Backstreet Girls]] at Down on the Farm: An event that started out as a barbecue for musicians and friends and in a few years become the premier Norwegian roots festival with audiences up to 5,000.<br />
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==First album==<br />
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[[Image:contendersband9.jpg|thumb|left|400px|'''The Contenders in 1989''' (from left) Stein Kulseth, Per Ivar Stræte, Stein Ramberg, Odd Eirik Fleischer and Bjørn Kulseth.]]<br />
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In the spring of 1989, the band hired Oslo’s all digital BEL Studio for four nights. Thirteen songs were recorded and produced by the Kulseth brothers with engineer Gragg Lunsford. [[EMI]] – Kulseth’s label for both The Act and the solo album released under the project name Hi-Yo Silver! – got the first listen and decided to buy the master and sign the band. Released in January 1990, the debut album ''The Contenders'' features 11 tracks written by the Kulseth brothers, a rollicking boogie woogie-style cover of [[Hank Williams]]' “Jambalaya” and the first released recording of “A Little Love is a Dangerous Thing” by US songwriters [[Katy Moffatt]] and [[Tom Russell]].<br />
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The critics were enthusiastic, with possibly the highest praise coming from the veteran Swedish critic Mats Olsson of [[Expressen]]. Annoyed that a new generation of Norwegian sports stars were now beating the Swedes, Olsson “worried” that The Contenders' debut album might signal a similar trend in rock music. The single “Sweet Little Thing” – written and sung by Stein Kulseth – got a fair amount of airplay and the band was invited to perform on both local and national TV. More importantly, the album helped to establish The Contenders as one of the most popular live bands of the time.<br />
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When guitarist Stein Ramberg left to play with [[Casino Steel]] – the Norwegian pianist who had been in the UK punk band [[The Boys (UK Band)|The Boys]] in the 1970s – The Contenders continued as a quartet for almost a year. As they started preparing for the second album, they recruited Arnfinn Tørrisen who was originally also from [[Flisa]], the town the others had grown up in. Tørrisen was known as the Norwegian [[Albert Lee]] and had been playing professionally since he was seventeen with Norwegian country acts like Big Hand Johansen’s Country Team, Lillian Askeland, Bjøro Håland, Egil “Gille” Larsen, Teddy Nelson, G. Thomas etc.<br />
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==Second album==<br />
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[[Image:contendersband5.jpg|thumb|right|350px|'''The Contenders in 1991''' (from left) Bjørn Kulseth, Per Ivar Stræte, Stein Kulseth, Odd Eirik Fleischer and Arnfinn Tørrisen.]] <br />
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In the fall of 1991 the band headed down south to [[Halden]] close the Swedish border, to record their next album at the residential studio Athletic Sound with house engineer Kai Andersen. The Kulseth brothers had by now been writing new songs for their live gigs for two years and had a good selection to choose from. One song seemed particularly promising: A midtempo tune called “Radioland” which was a tongue-in-cheek commentary on all the late night request shows that had become popular as Norwegian airwaves were opened up for competition during the 1980s. To maximise the song's commercial potential, “Radioland” and two other tracks were brought to Stockholm to be mixed by Dan Sundquist, the Swedish musician who had been in the new romantic band Reeperbahn in the early 1980s and who by now was a successful engineer/producer with a Swedish Grammy for Best Producer in 1988.<br />
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When the ''Radioland'' album was released in January 1992, the whole campaign was focused on the title tune. The strategy worked. The single “Radioland” topped the airplay charts for four weeks and helped to sell close to 15.000 copies of the album. The Kulseth brothers now signed an international publishing contract with the Stockholm-branch of EMI Music Publishing. The critics were also enthusiastic about the new and modernized version of The Contenders, with several comparisons made to the transformation [[Tom Petty]] had recently gone through by working with [[Jeff Lynne]]. <br />
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In March 1992, The Contenders were happy to be invited to support [[Tom Petty]] at his sold out shows in Gothenburg’s [[Scandinavium]] and Stockholm’s [[Stockholm Globe Arena|Globen]]. So after performing songs like “Louisiana Rain” and “Listen to Her Heart” hundreds of times during the previous 10 years, Bjørn Kulseth got to celebrate his 30th birthday on March 7. by supporting the writer of those songs in front of 12.000 Stockholmians and later hanging out with The Heartbreakers at the legendary Café Opera.<br />
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With two weeks notice, The Contenders were now invited to compete in the Norwegian Final of the [[Eurovision Song Contest]], traditionally a huge television event watched by virtually all Norwegians. The band quickly wrote and recorded their first ever song in Norwegian with the title “Munn mot munn metoden” (i.e. “The mouth to mouth method”). After the live and directly televised performance in [[Oslo Spektrum]] on March 21. the regional juries voted The Contenders’ song in at next to last of the ten entries.<br />
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Much of the summer of 1992 was spent on the road, with highlights being an outdoors show in the port of Malmø during [[1992 UEFA European Football Championship|Euro 92]] (The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship) in June and [[Moldejazz|The Molde International Jazz Festival]] in July. In the fall of 1992, The Contenders were invited to contribute to a double tribute album to the Norwegian singer-songwriter [[Åge Aleksandersen]]. The Contenders chose to cover “Kvalmen” (“Nausea”) from Aleksandersen’s 1979 album ''French Only''.<br />
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==Third album==<br />
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Though neither of The Contenders’ first experiments with signing in their native language were particularly successful, the Kulseth brothers decided that Norwegian lyrics was their future. They worked hard on their songwriting and in the fall of 1993 had enough songs to start recording their third album. As on ''Radioland'' they started recording basic tracks in Halden’s Athletic Sound, but then moved on to Studio Nova in [[Spydeberg]] for overdubs and mixing.<br />
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In January 1994 the album ''Amors bil'' (i.e. "Cupid's Car"), was released. The first single “Folkets Hus” (i.e. "Community Hall") - an allegory on the fall of the post WW2 social democratic solidarity - became a minor radio hit. The second single "Indianere" (i.e. "Red Indians") also received much airplay, but even though the critics lauded the band's new blend of classic Americana music with Norwegian lyrics, the album sales never took off.<br />
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After touring the ''Amors Bil'' album, Per Ivar Stræte found he had developed [[tinnitus]] and put his drums in storage. The rest of the band then joined forces with the singer-songwriter Roy Lønhøiden as a third front man and called themselves Kulseth & Lønhøiden Almenning. Lønhøiden had grown up in roughly the same area as The Contenders and after singing in English in the boy/girl duo Peyton Place (one self titled album on [[Sony]] in 1994) he had also decided to switch to Norwegian. <br />
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Kulseth & Lønhøiden Almenning released their one self titled album in 1998 on Bjørn Kulseth's own label Norskamerikaner (i.e. Norwegian-American). Bjørn Kulseth has later produced and released solo albums by Roy Lønhøiden in 2004 and 2006 on this label. Stein Kulseth has also worked with Lønhøiden as a songwriter and studio musician and has since 1999 been a semi-permanent member of veteran Norwegian roots singer Trond Grandlund's band.<br />
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The guitarist Arnfinn Tørrisen started playing and writing songs with J.T. Lauritsen & the Buckshot Hunters in 1995 and they have since released four albums. Tørrisen has also recorded and performed with Roy Lønhøiden. In 1998, the bass player Odd-Eirik Fleischer joined [[Home Groan]], a band lead by The Contenders' former soundman Martin Hagfors, which have since released 10 albums.<br />
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The drummer Per-Ivar Stræte learned to live with the tinnitus after a few years and the last line-up of The Contenders occasionally reunites for one-off gigs, mainly around Christmas time in their old hometown [[Flisa]].<br /><br />
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==Discography==<br />
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===Albums===<br />
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* '''''The Contenders''''' (EMI Odeon 1989)<br />
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* '''''Radioland''''' (EMI 1992)<br />
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* '''''Amors bil''''' (EMI 1994)<br />
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===Singles===<br />
* '''"Sweet Little Thing"''' b/w '''"A Little Love (is a Dangerous Thing)"'''<br />
(Blue vinyl promo single, EMI Odeon 1989)<br />
* '''"Radioland"''' b/w '''"You’re So Swell"'''<br />
(Vinyl single, EMI 1991)<br />
* '''"Radioland"''' c/w '''"Ride Away"''' & '''"Saturday Roadhouse Fight"'''<br />
(CD single, EMI 1992)<br />
* '''"Munn mot munn metoden"''' c/w '''"Rock ‘n’ Roll Hurricane"''' <br />
(CD single, EMI 1992)<br />
* '''"Folkets hus"''' <br />
(CD promo single in cardboard cover, EMI 1993)<br />
* '''"Indianere"''' c/w '''"Amors bil"''' (live)<br />
(CD single, EMI 1994 )<br /><br />
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===Compilations===<br />
* '''"Ain't That Brave"''' on '''''Rock 'n' Roll Stowaways Vol. 1''''' <br />
(Vinyl album, That's Entertainment 1988)<br />
* '''"Kvalmen"''' on '''''Æ''''' - A tribute to [[Åge Aleksandersen]] <br />
(Double CD, Norske Gram 1992)<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* [http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2006050409413792928816 Norwegian pop and rock encyclopaedia. Vega Forlag, 2005. ISBN 978-82-92-48909-3.]<br />
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* [http://gstreng.no/thecontenders.html G-STRENG website] <br /><br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.groove.no/html/band/76263235.html groove.no website]<br />
* [http://www.jtlauritsen.com J.T. Lauritsen website'''] <br />
* [http://homegroan.net Homegroan website]<br />
* [http://www.norskamerikaner.no "Norskamerikaner" label website]<br />
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[[Category:1990s music groups]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hi-Yo_Silver!&diff=143984274Hi-Yo Silver!2007-07-11T15:55:15Z<p>124.38.50.169: /* History */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --><br />
| Name = Hi-Yo Silver!<br />
| Img = hiyosilver1.jpg<br />
| Img_capt = Hi-Yo Silver! a.k.a. Bjørn Kulseth<br />
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| Landscape = <br />
| Background = solo_singer<br />
| Birth_name = Bjørn Kulseth<br />
| Alias = <br />
| Born = [[March 7]], [[1962]]<br />
| Died = <br />
| Origin = [[Norway|Norway]] <br />
| Instrument = [[Singer|Vocals]]; [[Guitar]]<br />
| Genre = [[Pop music|Pop]]<br />
| Occupation = [[Singer-songwriter]]<br />
| Years_active = 1980 – present<br />
| Label = EMI Odeon<br />
| Associated_acts = [[The Act]]<br />[[The Contenders (band)|The Contenders]]<br />
| URL = <br />
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'''Hi-Yo Silver!''' was a musical solo project by [[Bjørn Kulseth]], the former lead singer and songwriter of the Norwegian rock band [[The Act]]. The only Hi-Yo Silver! album was entitled ''Away'' and was released in 1988.<br />
<br />
== History ==<br />
<br />
The first and thus far only solo album by the Norwegian singer and songwriter Bjørn Kulseth was recorded in the summer of 1987. After a week of preproduction in the Pan Studio in Skjetten north of [[Oslo]], producer [[Steve Forward]] and Bjørn Kulseth spent the next five weeks in UK recording studios owned by [[Phil Manzanera]] and [[Manfred Mann]]: The Gallery in [[Chertsey]] and The Workhouse in [[South London]] respectively. <br />
<br />
The resulting album was credited to Hi-Yo Silver! and entitled ''Away'', which in combination is the command that the cartoon/film hero [[The Lone Ranger]] gives to his horse Silver at the end of every story as they ride away in search for new adventures. <br />
<br />
Even though the Hi-Yo Silver! album features a few [[Country music|country & western]] touches such as pedal and lap steel guitar, the over all sound is more contemporary late 1980s pop music with sequencers, synthesizers and even some dance oriented grooves. <br />
<br />
In fact the first version of the cover, with a portrait of Kulseth taken late at night at great expense in front of a joyride in the [[Gothenburg]] fairground [[Liseberg]], was rejected by [[EMI]] for looking too "country". So the released cover features Kulseth sitting in the shuttle of a space rocket, wearing a fringed silver leather jacket and cradling his newly silver painted Gretch-guitar with the name "Silver" engraved on the neck. <br />
<br />
Despite a big budget from EMI and much acclaim from the media, ''Away'' proved to be a commercial failure when it was released in Norway in March 1988. By then though, Kulseth and his younger brother Stein Kulseth had already started a new roots rock band called [[The Contenders (band)|The Contenders]].<br />
<br />
==Musicians==<br />
<br />
*Ian Porter – programming and keyboards<br /><br />
*John Lingwood – drums<br /><br />
*Dave Bronze – bass<br /><br />
*Robin Boult – guitars<br /><br />
*Tommy Willis – lap steel guitar<br /><br />
*Vic Collins – pedal steel guitar<br /><br />
*Matt Irving – keyboards<br /><br />
*Chris Batchelor – trumpet<br /><br />
*Frank Mead – saxophone<br /><br />
*Steve Sidelnyk – percussion<br /><br />
*John Wilson – backing vocals<br /><br />
*Tim Haine – backing vocals<br /><br />
*The Sapphires – backing vocals<br /><br />
*Bjørn Kulseth – vocals and guitars<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
==Discography==<br />
<br />
===Album===<br />
[[Image: Hiyosilvercover1.jpg|300px]]<br /><br />
*'''''Away''''' (EMI Odeon 1988)<br />
<br />
===Singles===<br />
[[Image: Hiyosilvercover2.jpg|300px]]<br /><br />
* '''''Get Rich (In A Hurry)''''' b/w '''''Top Of The World'''''<br /> (EMI Odeon 1988)<br />
[[Image: Hiyosilvercover3.jpg|300px]]<br /><br />
* '''''Nervous In The Night''''' b/w '''''My Father's Name Is Dad'''''<br /> (EMI Odeon 1988)<br />
[[Image: Hiyosilvercover3.jpg|300px]]<br /><br />
* '''''Nervous In The Night''''' 12" Takeoff Mix <br />b/w '''''My Father's Name Is Dad''''' & '''''Nervous In The Night'''''<br /> (EMI Odeon 1988)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2006050409413792928816 Norwegian pop and rock encyclopaedia. Vega Forlag 2005. ISBN 978-82-92-48909-3.]<br />
* [http://gstreng.no/bjoern_kulseth.html G-STRENG Website]<br />
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[[Category:Norwegian singer-songwriters]]<br />
[[Category:Norwegian male singers]]<br />
[[Category:Norwegian guitarists]]<br />
[[Category:1962 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Andrei_Aldea&diff=143978754Dan Andrei Aldea2007-07-11T15:24:47Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Dan Andrei Aldea''' (b. [[1950]] in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]) is a [[Romania]]n [[guitarist]]. <br />
<br />
He graduated from the Music Academy in Bucharest, and is known as one of the best rock guitar players from Romania. Aldea has lived in [[Germany]] since [[1981]], after defecting. Just before defecting, he had played for several months in a night club in Belgium with his band [[Sfinx (band)|Sfinx]].<br />
<br />
Along with [[Dorin Liviu Zaharia]], he composed music for the movie ''[[Nunta de piatra]]'' (The Stone Wedding)[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069033/]. He also wrote the music for the audiobook "Faust", read by [[Rolf Günther]]. <br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://home.arcor.de/dan.aldea/ Dan Aldea's website]<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldea}}<br />
[[Category:Rock guitarists]]<br />
[[Category:Romanian musicians]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Andrei_Aldea&diff=143978644Dan Andrei Aldea2007-07-11T15:24:06Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Dan Andrei Aldea''' (b. [[1950]] in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]) is a [[Romania]]n [[guitarist]]. <br />
<br />
He graduated from the Music Academy in Bucharest, and is known as one of the best rock guitar players from Romania. Aldea has lived in [[Germany]] since [[1981]], after defecting. Just befroe defecting, he had played for several months in a night club in Belgium with the band [[Sfinx (band)|Sfinx]].<br />
<br />
Along with [[Dorin Liviu Zaharia]], he composed music for the movie ''[[Nunta de piatra]]'' (The Stone Wedding)[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069033/]. He also wrote the music for the audiobook "Faust", read by [[Rolf Günther]]. <br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://home.arcor.de/dan.aldea/ Dan Aldea's website]<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aldea}}<br />
[[Category:Rock guitarists]]<br />
[[Category:Romanian musicians]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorin_Liviu_Zaharia&diff=131967465Dorin Liviu Zaharia2007-05-19T08:48:31Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Dorin Liviu Zaharia''' was one of the most interesting figures <br />
of the 60s and 70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romanian musician <br />
interested in mixing [[Romanian folklore]] with Indian music. He <br />
sang with the band '''[[Olimpic '64]]''', developing a sound and <br />
attitude that were opposite to the communist regime's <br />
''commandments''. He wrote, along with [[Dan Andrei Aldea]], <br />
the music for several Romanian movies - such as the cult <br />
'''Duhul Aurului''' and '''Nunta de piatră''' (dir. by <br />
[[Dan Piţa]] and [[Mircea Veroiu]]). He also wrote with the Olimpic 64 members the rock suites '''"Decameronul focului alb"''' and '''"Karma Kalyoga"'''<br />
. He was born in 1944 and died in 1987.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Romanian musicians]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorin_Liviu_Zaharia&diff=131967431Dorin Liviu Zaharia2007-05-19T08:48:11Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Dorin Liviu Zaharia''' was one of the most interesting figures <br />
of the 60s and 70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romanian musician <br />
interested in mixing [[Romanian folklore]] with Indian music. He <br />
sang with the band '''[[Olimpic '64]]''', developing a sound and <br />
attitude that were opposite to the communist regime's <br />
''commandments''. He wrote, along with [[Dan Andrei Aldea]], <br />
the music for several Romanian movies - such as the cult <br />
'''Duhul Aurului''' and '''Nunta de piatră''' (dir. by <br />
[[Dan Piţa]] and [[Mircea Veroiu]]). He also wrote with the Olimpic 64 members the rock suites '''"Decameronul focului alb"''' '''"Karma Kalyoga"'''<br />
. He was born in 1944 and died in 1987.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Romanian musicians]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kitar%C5%8D&diff=128598018Kitarō2007-05-06T07:34:15Z<p>124.38.50.169: /* Personal life */</p>
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<div>[[image:Kitaro.jpg|thumb|right|177px|Kitaro]]<br />
'''Kitarō''' (喜多郎) (born '''Masanori Takahashi''' (高橋正則 ''Takahashi Masanori'') on [[February 4]], [[1953]], in [[Toyohashi, Aichi|Toyohashi]], [[Aichi Prefecture]], [[Japan]]) is a [[composer]] and [[multi-instrumentalist]]. His stage name was given later by friends because of a Japanese television cartoon character named Kitarō, from ''[[Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō]]''. He is the son of shintoistic farmers. <br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
===Early life===<br />
Inspired by the R&B music of [[Otis Redding]], Kitaro taught himself how to play guitar. He says of teaching himself, "I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings." He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. "This music is not from my mind," he said. "It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don't read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder, 'Whose song is this?' I write my songs, but they are not my songs."{{Fact|date=February 2007}}<br />
<br />
While attending Toyohashi Commercial High School, he organized the "Albatross" band with his friends. At that time, they performed in parties and clubs. "In high school, I was in an amateur band. I started out playing the guitar but then changed to the keyboards. Before one of our gigs, the drummer was injured. I had no experience at all on the drums, but I had to learn it because I was the leader of the band, and we had to do the gig. My drumming was not very good, but we got through the show in one piece. Later, the bassist had injuries, so I had to learn how to play the bass. [These accidents are] the main reasons why I can play all these instruments; I had a crash course in how to play them. It was a hard time for me, but a very good experience. It created the base knowledge of all the instruments I use and need to create my current brand of music. After graduating, I really wanted to be in the music business, so I moved to Tokyo and started looking for bands to play with. I basically did it for the experience and to get a feel of all the clubs that were available in Tokyo and Yokohama. At that time I played keyboards, and then I discovered the synthesizer. This was a revelation. First of all, the instructions for the thing were in English so I couldn't read them. I was trying to make sounds but couldn't! I tried for a whole day, but no sound ever came out because I didn't know how to program it or set it up. Finally, the first sound I got off this thing was a wind-like sound, but I was so elated that I actually made some noise, it didn't matter. I turned one of the knobs slowly to make more wind-like noises. Then I decided to buy another synthesizer to form a different type of sound. I just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound. Now, my equipment and synthesizers are all analog. But technically, digital is much easier to use for editing and other stuff."{{Fact|date=February 2007}}<br />
<br />
His parents were first opposed to the idea of their son having a musical career. They had other plans for him and in an attempt to get him to see their way, made arrangements for him to take a job at a local company. However he left home without telling them before. He supported himself by taking on several part time jobs such as cooking and civil service work while composing songs at night. <br />
<br />
In the early '70s he changed completely to keyboards. He joined the band "Far East Family Band" and toured with them around the world. In Europe he met the German synthesizer musician and former [[Tangerine Dream]] member [[Klaus Schulze]]. Schulze produced two albums for the band and gave Kitaro some tips for the use of synthesizers.<br />
<br />
In 1976 he left the band and travelled through Asia (China, Laos, Thailand, India).<br />
<br />
===Solo career===<br />
Back in Japan Kitaro started his solo career in 1977. The first two albums ''Ten Kai'' and ''From the Full Moon Story'' became cult favorites of fans of the nascent [[New Age]] movement. He performed his first symphonic concert at the 'Small Hall' of the Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Shinjuku, Toyko. During this concert Kitaro used a synthesizer to recreate the sounds of 40 different instruments, a world's first. But it was his famous soundtrack for the NHK series "Silk Road" which brought him the international attention.<br />
<br />
He struck a worldwide distribution arrangement with Geffen Records in 1986; in 1987 he collaborated with different musicians, e.g. with Micky Hart ([[Grateful Dead]]) and Jon Anderson ([[Yes (band)|Yes]]) and his record sales soared to 10 million worldwide. He was then nominated twice for a [[Grammy]] and his soundtrack (for the movie "[[Heaven & Earth]]") won a 1994 award for best original score. His biggest musical success was the Grammy Award 2001 for his album ''Thinking of You''.<br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Kitaro is very modest. "Nature inspires me. I am only a messenger", he said. "To me, some songs are like clouds, some are like water".{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Since 1983 his reverence for nature leads Kitaro to annually give thanks to Mother Nature in a special "concert" on Mount Fuji or near his house in Colorado. On the day of the full moon of August he beats on the [[Taiko]] drum from dusk to dawn. Frequently his hands become bloodied, but he continues to pound.<br />
<br />
From 1983 till 1990 he was married with his first wife Yuki Taoka. Yuki is a daughter of [[Kazuo Taoka]], godfather of [[Yamaguchi-gumi]], the largest [[Yakuza]] syndicate. Kitaro and Yuki have a son, Ryunosuke, who lives in Japan. They separated because Kitaro worked most time in the United States while she lived and worked in Japan. In the middle of the [[1990s]] Kitaro married Keiko Matsubara, a musician who played on several of his albums. With her and her son, Kitaro lived in [[Ward, Colorado]] on a 180 acre (730,000 m²) spread and composed in his 2500 square foot (230 m²) home studio "Mochi House" (it is large enough to hold a 70 piece orchestra). Kitaro and Keiko recently relocated to [[Occidental, California]].<br />
<br />
==Other works==<br />
He has also worked with Virtuoso Guitarist [[Marty Friedman (guitarist)|Marty Friedman]], formerly of [[Megadeth]], on the "Scenes" album, which had a significal impact on the forthcoming Kitaro's "Mandala" release.<br />
<br />
Also, Kitaro composed the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film ''Heaven and Earth''.<br />
<br />
==Discography==<br />
<b>Discography:</b><br />
<br />
1978 - Ten Kai/Astral Voyage/Astral Voyager/Astral Trip<br /><br />
1979 - Full Moon Story/Daichi<br /><br />
1979 - Oasis<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road (a.k.a. The Soghdian Merchants on VHS)<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road II<br /><br />
1980 - In Person Digital<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road Suite<br /><br />
1981 - Silk Road III: Tunhuang<br /><br />
1981 - Best of Kitaro vol 1<br /><br />
1981 - World of Kitaro<br /><br />
1981 - Ki<br /><br />
1982 - Millennia/Queen Millennia<br /><br />
1983 - Silk Road IV: Tenjiku/India<br /><br />
1984 - Silver Cloud/Cloud<br /><br />
1984 - Live in Asia/Asia Super Tour Live/Asia<br /><br />
1986 - Toward the West<br /><br />
1986 - Tenku<br /><br />
1987 - Light of the Spirit<br /><br />
1988 - Ten Years/Best of Ten Years<br /><br />
1990 - Kojiki<br /><br />
1991 - Live in America<br /><br />
1992 - Dream/Lady of Dreams<br /><br />
1993 - Heaven and Earth<br /><br />
1994 - Mandala<br /><br />
1995 - An Enchanted Evening - Live<br /><br />
1996 - Peace On Earth<br /><br />
1997 - Cirque Ingenieux<br /><br />
1998 - Gaia-Onbashira<br /><br />
1999 - Best of Kitaro vol 2<br /><br />
1999 - Thinking of You<br /><br />
2000 - The Soong Sisters<br /><br />
2001 - Ancient<br /><br />
2002 - An Ancient Journey<br /><br />
2002 - Daylight, Moonlight in Yakushiji - Live<br /><br />
2003 - Best of Silk Road<br /><br />
2003 - Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai<br /><br />
2004 - Shikoku 88 Places<br /><br />
2005 - Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Volume 2<br /><br />
2006 - Spiritual Garden<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<b>Other Albums (No Release Year)</b><br />
<br />
Astral Voyage/Ten-Kai<br /><br />
Asian Cafe/Ashu Chakan<br /><br />
All Roads Lead To Rome<br /><br />
Across The Karakum Desert<br /><br />
Across The Pamir<br /><br />
Dansu<br /><br />
Deep Forest<br /><br />
Endless Journey<br /><br />
Freedom Chants<br /><br />
Healing Forest<br /><br />
Ninja Scroll (Soundtrack)<br /><br />
In Silent<br /><br />
In Search Of Wisdom<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart I<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart II<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart III<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart IV<br /><br />
Kaiso (Kitaro's World Of Music)<br /><br />
Karuna (Kitaro's World Of Music)<br /><br />
Mu Land<br /><br />
Mizu Ni Inorte<br /><br />
Morning Light<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 1<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 2<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 3<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 4<br /><br />
Nile<br /><br />
Six Musical Portraits<br /><br />
Tamayura<br /><br />
Tento Chi<br /><br />
Tokusen 1<br /><br />
Tokusen 2<br /><br />
Tonko<br /><br />
Tunhuang<br /><br />
Vertigo<br /><br />
Yakushi-Ji<br /><br /><br />
<br />
<b>Kitaro with Others</b><br />
<br />
Far East Family Band - Far Out (1973)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - The Cave Down To Earth (1974)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - Nipponjin (1975)<br /> <br />
Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - Tenkujin (1977)<br /><br />
Gyoto Monks - Gyoto Monks<br /><br />
Gyoto Monks - From The Roof Of The World<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
<br />
In addition the various record companies who have distributed Kitaro's music have released several compilation albums over the years. Quite a few of them are listed here -> [http://www.gigapolis.com/kitaro/en/discography/cds/kitaro_cds/index.php]<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[http://www.kitaromusic.com Kitaro Music - Official site]<br />
*[http://www.domo.com Domo Records - Kitaro's Record Company]<br />
*[http://www.gigapolis.com/kitaro/ Kitaro House - Fan page with discography]<br />
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[[zh:喜多郎]]</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kitar%C5%8D&diff=128597719Kitarō2007-05-06T07:31:26Z<p>124.38.50.169: /* Solo career */</p>
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<div>[[image:Kitaro.jpg|thumb|right|177px|Kitaro]]<br />
'''Kitarō''' (喜多郎) (born '''Masanori Takahashi''' (高橋正則 ''Takahashi Masanori'') on [[February 4]], [[1953]], in [[Toyohashi, Aichi|Toyohashi]], [[Aichi Prefecture]], [[Japan]]) is a [[composer]] and [[multi-instrumentalist]]. His stage name was given later by friends because of a Japanese television cartoon character named Kitarō, from ''[[Ge Ge Ge no Kitarō]]''. He is the son of shintoistic farmers. <br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
===Early life===<br />
Inspired by the R&B music of [[Otis Redding]], Kitaro taught himself how to play guitar. He says of teaching himself, "I never had education in music, I just learned to trust my ears and my feelings." He gives credit for his creations to a power beyond himself. "This music is not from my mind," he said. "It is from heaven, going through my body and out my fingers through composing. Sometimes I wonder. I never practice. I don't read or write music, but my fingers move. I wonder, 'Whose song is this?' I write my songs, but they are not my songs."{{Fact|date=February 2007}}<br />
<br />
While attending Toyohashi Commercial High School, he organized the "Albatross" band with his friends. At that time, they performed in parties and clubs. "In high school, I was in an amateur band. I started out playing the guitar but then changed to the keyboards. Before one of our gigs, the drummer was injured. I had no experience at all on the drums, but I had to learn it because I was the leader of the band, and we had to do the gig. My drumming was not very good, but we got through the show in one piece. Later, the bassist had injuries, so I had to learn how to play the bass. [These accidents are] the main reasons why I can play all these instruments; I had a crash course in how to play them. It was a hard time for me, but a very good experience. It created the base knowledge of all the instruments I use and need to create my current brand of music. After graduating, I really wanted to be in the music business, so I moved to Tokyo and started looking for bands to play with. I basically did it for the experience and to get a feel of all the clubs that were available in Tokyo and Yokohama. At that time I played keyboards, and then I discovered the synthesizer. This was a revelation. First of all, the instructions for the thing were in English so I couldn't read them. I was trying to make sounds but couldn't! I tried for a whole day, but no sound ever came out because I didn't know how to program it or set it up. Finally, the first sound I got off this thing was a wind-like sound, but I was so elated that I actually made some noise, it didn't matter. I turned one of the knobs slowly to make more wind-like noises. Then I decided to buy another synthesizer to form a different type of sound. I just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound. Now, my equipment and synthesizers are all analog. But technically, digital is much easier to use for editing and other stuff."{{Fact|date=February 2007}}<br />
<br />
His parents were first opposed to the idea of their son having a musical career. They had other plans for him and in an attempt to get him to see their way, made arrangements for him to take a job at a local company. However he left home without telling them before. He supported himself by taking on several part time jobs such as cooking and civil service work while composing songs at night. <br />
<br />
In the early '70s he changed completely to keyboards. He joined the band "Far East Family Band" and toured with them around the world. In Europe he met the German synthesizer musician and former [[Tangerine Dream]] member [[Klaus Schulze]]. Schulze produced two albums for the band and gave Kitaro some tips for the use of synthesizers.<br />
<br />
In 1976 he left the band and travelled through Asia (China, Laos, Thailand, India).<br />
<br />
===Solo career===<br />
Back in Japan Kitaro started his solo career in 1977. The first two albums ''Ten Kai'' and ''From the Full Moon Story'' became cult favorites of fans of the nascent [[New Age]] movement. He performed his first symphonic concert at the 'Small Hall' of the Kosei Nenkin Kaikan in Shinjuku, Toyko. During this concert Kitaro used a synthesizer to recreate the sounds of 40 different instruments, a world's first. But it was his famous soundtrack for the NHK series "Silk Road" which brought him the international attention.<br />
<br />
He struck a worldwide distribution arrangement with Geffen Records in 1986; in 1987 he collaborated with different musicians, e.g. with Micky Hart ([[Grateful Dead]]) and Jon Anderson ([[Yes (band)|Yes]]) and his record sales soared to 10 million worldwide. He was then nominated twice for a [[Grammy]] and his soundtrack (for the movie "[[Heaven & Earth]]") won a 1994 award for best original score. His biggest musical success was the Grammy Award 2001 for his album ''Thinking of You''.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Kitaro is very modest. "Nature inspires me. I am only a messenger", he said. "To me, some songs are like clouds, some are like water".{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Since 1983 his reverence for nature leads Kitaro to annually give thanks to Mother Nature in a special "concert" on Mount Fuji or near his house in Colorado. On the day of the full moon of August he beats on the [[Taiko]] drum from dusk to dawn. Frequently his hands become bloodied, but he continues to pound.<br />
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From 1983 till 1990 he was married with his first wife Yuki Taoka. Yuki is a daughter of [[Kazuo Taoka]], godfather of [[Yamaguchi-gumi]], the largest [[Yakuza]] syndicate. Kitaro and Yuki have a son, Ryunosuke, who lives in Japan. They separated because Kitaro worked most time in the United States while she lived and worked in Japan. In the middle of the [[1990s]] Kitaro married Keiko Matsubara, a musician who played on several of his albums. With her and her son Kitaro lived in [[Ward, Colorado]] on a 180 acre (730,000 m²) spread and composed in his 2500 square foot (230 m²) home studio "Mochi House" (it is large enough to hold a 70 piece orchestra). Kitaro and Keiko recently relocated to [[Occidental, California]].<br />
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==Other works==<br />
He has also worked with Virtuoso Guitarist [[Marty Friedman (guitarist)|Marty Friedman]], formerly of [[Megadeth]], on the "Scenes" album, which had a significal impact on the forthcoming Kitaro's "Mandala" release.<br />
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Also, Kitaro composed the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film ''Heaven and Earth''.<br />
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==Discography==<br />
<b>Discography:</b><br />
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1978 - Ten Kai/Astral Voyage/Astral Voyager/Astral Trip<br /><br />
1979 - Full Moon Story/Daichi<br /><br />
1979 - Oasis<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road (a.k.a. The Soghdian Merchants on VHS)<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road II<br /><br />
1980 - In Person Digital<br /><br />
1980 - Silk Road Suite<br /><br />
1981 - Silk Road III: Tunhuang<br /><br />
1981 - Best of Kitaro vol 1<br /><br />
1981 - World of Kitaro<br /><br />
1981 - Ki<br /><br />
1982 - Millennia/Queen Millennia<br /><br />
1983 - Silk Road IV: Tenjiku/India<br /><br />
1984 - Silver Cloud/Cloud<br /><br />
1984 - Live in Asia/Asia Super Tour Live/Asia<br /><br />
1986 - Toward the West<br /><br />
1986 - Tenku<br /><br />
1987 - Light of the Spirit<br /><br />
1988 - Ten Years/Best of Ten Years<br /><br />
1990 - Kojiki<br /><br />
1991 - Live in America<br /><br />
1992 - Dream/Lady of Dreams<br /><br />
1993 - Heaven and Earth<br /><br />
1994 - Mandala<br /><br />
1995 - An Enchanted Evening - Live<br /><br />
1996 - Peace On Earth<br /><br />
1997 - Cirque Ingenieux<br /><br />
1998 - Gaia-Onbashira<br /><br />
1999 - Best of Kitaro vol 2<br /><br />
1999 - Thinking of You<br /><br />
2000 - The Soong Sisters<br /><br />
2001 - Ancient<br /><br />
2002 - An Ancient Journey<br /><br />
2002 - Daylight, Moonlight in Yakushiji - Live<br /><br />
2003 - Best of Silk Road<br /><br />
2003 - Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai<br /><br />
2004 - Shikoku 88 Places<br /><br />
2005 - Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai Volume 2<br /><br />
2006 - Spiritual Garden<br /><br />
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<b>Other Albums (No Release Year)</b><br />
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Astral Voyage/Ten-Kai<br /><br />
Asian Cafe/Ashu Chakan<br /><br />
All Roads Lead To Rome<br /><br />
Across The Karakum Desert<br /><br />
Across The Pamir<br /><br />
Dansu<br /><br />
Deep Forest<br /><br />
Endless Journey<br /><br />
Freedom Chants<br /><br />
Healing Forest<br /><br />
Ninja Scroll (Soundtrack)<br /><br />
In Silent<br /><br />
In Search Of Wisdom<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart I<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart II<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart III<br /><br />
Journey To The Heart IV<br /><br />
Kaiso (Kitaro's World Of Music)<br /><br />
Karuna (Kitaro's World Of Music)<br /><br />
Mu Land<br /><br />
Mizu Ni Inorte<br /><br />
Morning Light<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 1<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 2<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 3<br /><br />
Music For The Spirit Vol. 4<br /><br />
Nile<br /><br />
Six Musical Portraits<br /><br />
Tamayura<br /><br />
Tento Chi<br /><br />
Tokusen 1<br /><br />
Tokusen 2<br /><br />
Tonko<br /><br />
Tunhuang<br /><br />
Vertigo<br /><br />
Yakushi-Ji<br /><br /><br />
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<b>Kitaro with Others</b><br />
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Far East Family Band - Far Out (1973)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - The Cave Down To Earth (1974)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - Nipponjin (1975)<br /> <br />
Far East Family Band - Parallel World (1976)<br /><br />
Far East Family Band - Tenkujin (1977)<br /><br />
Gyoto Monks - Gyoto Monks<br /><br />
Gyoto Monks - From The Roof Of The World<br />
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In addition the various record companies who have distributed Kitaro's music have released several compilation albums over the years. Quite a few of them are listed here -> [http://www.gigapolis.com/kitaro/en/discography/cds/kitaro_cds/index.php]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.kitaromusic.com Kitaro Music - Official site]<br />
*[http://www.domo.com Domo Records - Kitaro's Record Company]<br />
*[http://www.gigapolis.com/kitaro/ Kitaro House - Fan page with discography]<br />
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<div>'''Dorin Liviu Zaharia''' was one of the most interesting figures <br />
of the 60s and 70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romanian musician <br />
interested in mixing [[Romanian folklore]] with Indian music. He <br />
sang with the band '''Olimpic '64''', developing a sound and <br />
attitude that were opposite to the comunist regime's <br />
''commandments''. He wrote, along with '''Dan Andrei Aldea''', <br />
the music for several romanian movies - such as the cult <br />
'''Duhul Aurului''' and '''Nunta de piatră''' (dir. by <br />
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<div>'''Dorin Liviu Zaharia''' was one of the most interesting figures <br />
of the 60s and 70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romanian musician <br />
interested in mixing [[romanian folklore]] with indian music. He <br />
sang with the band '''Olimpic '64''', developing a sound and <br />
attitude that were opposite to the comunist regime's <br />
''commandments''. He wrote, along with '''Dan Andrei Aldea''', <br />
the music for several romanian movies - such as the cult <br />
'''Duhul Aurului''' and '''Nunta de piatră''' (dir. by <br />
[[Dan Piţa]] and [[Mircea Veroiu]]). He also wrote the rock opera "Karma Kalyuga"<br />
. He was born in 1944 and passed away in 1987.</div>124.38.50.169https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dorin_Liviu_Zaharia&diff=104584837Dorin Liviu Zaharia2007-01-31T14:46:22Z<p>124.38.50.169: </p>
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<div>'''Dorin Liviu Zaharia''' was one of the most interesting figures <br />
of the 60s and 70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romaian musician <br />
interested in mixing [[romanian folklore]] with indian music. He <br />
sang with the band '''Olimpic '64''', developing a sound and <br />
attitude that were opposite to the comunist regime's <br />
''commandments''. He wrote, along with '''Dan Andrei Aldea''', <br />
the music for several romanian movies - such as the cult <br />
'''Duhul Aurului''' and '''Nunta de piatră''' (dir. by <br />
[[Dan Piţa]] and [[Mircea Veroiu]]). He also wrote the rock opera "Karma Kalyuga"<br />
. He was born in 1944 and passed away in 1987.</div>124.38.50.169