Unfortunately, I missed the series dedicated to the band Phoenix one of his staunchest admirers. It’s about Dora rocker Ionescu So now I know the history of the group, very often qualified phenomenonfrom only three sources.

In the summer of 1977, if I am not mistaken in August, for four weeks, every Thursday after News bulletin from 17:00, Radio Free Europe aired an episode of the Monae Bourdain version. Just a few months before that, most of the band’s members went for a trick, tricked the revolutionary vigilance of the people of the communist regime, and managed to leave for the West. Then it seemed that everything was over, that the myth of the reborn bird was demystified and that Phoenix it became history. Fortunately, this did not happen, although what happened next was neither always simple nor necessarily beautiful.

This year the band celebrates its 60th anniversary. So about two or three months ago I saw a movie on TVR Phoenix – Char/Jar, screenwriter and director Cornel Michalache. Accepting the formula a resume the modern Cornel Mihalace reworked the history of formation, starting with what is happening today. When the conflicts between some participants of the beginning of the formula escalated. The director especially insisted on what happened before 1977, we saw the members before that time, not those who were co-opted in exile or in Romania, after 1989. The 104-minute film was very slightly peppered with music, Cornel Michalace even stated that he could talk about it Phoenix even without a particular musical illustration. “This is a film about people, not about music. Beautiful, elderly people with children’s souls. With a life full of ugly and beautiful, happy and sad events.”

Christian Radu Nema and Mimis Ravanis, as writers, directors, producers, closely advised by Nicolae Kovaci, also a producer, made a film called Phoenix:History. The film is meant to be comprehensive, recreating in lavish detail almost everything that happened from 1962 to the present day, filming everyone who was part of the various formulas of the band at one point in time. He is richly illustrated with songs, insists on stylistic changes, pays due attention to the album Canto fables (Kanta fables), perhaps the most significant, stylistically complex in the group’s discography.

The final footage is supplemented by archival extracts (some taken from the TVR archive itself), footage from the exile period, some of which belongs to Dan Kish, as well as fragments of anniversary shows that took place in Romania after 1989. Christian Radu Nema and Mimis Ravanis made a feature documentary. Noticeable. They illustrated and dramatized some famous songs, narrator Raresh Andrici, theater actor Nottara, sometimes surpassing their original state and even becoming a character. Andra Brebu helps him in this sense. To whom the role of the muse returned. The feature-documentary nature of the film is also inspired by the costumes designed by Oana Kocea.

Made primarily from the perspective of Nick Kovaci, based primarily on his testimony and interventions, Phoenix: History contains an optimistic message. The formation must be revived.

Of course I was happy to see what I saw. Listen to the band’s songs again or hear them Ballad Cipriano Porumbescu, played on the flute by Gheorghe Zamfir, is invited along with the late Florian Pittisch and many, many others to the anniversary concerts. I mean I appreciated what was and continues to be beautiful in history Phoenix. However, that doesn’t mean we haven’t noticed some errors in the documentation. Omissions or inaccurate statements. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro