Phoenix – Sirena – Video

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Phoenix - Sirena
Romanian folk rock from the the LP Aniversare 35 (1997). Phoenix was launched in the cosmopolitan city of Timi #351;oara in 1962 by a pair of schoolboys: Nicu Covaci and Bla Kamocsa, under the name of Sfin #355;ii (The Saints). In their first years, together with Florin "Moni" Bordeianu (born 1948), they performed in school contests and at local clubs, covering Western music hits from The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, etc., and they quickly became very popular amongst the youth. In 1965 the Communist authorities demanded that the band stop performing under the name The Saints, because of the religious innuendo that the name carried. Forced to comply, the band took the name Phoenix.In 1970, Moni Bordeianu emigrated to the United States, and, for a brief period of time the band suspended its activity, also due to total censorship that followed a protesting speech held by Bordeianu in his last concert. The lineup in 1970 was Nicu Covaci - guitar, Gnther "Spitzly" Reininger - piano and voice, Zoltan Covacs - bass guitar and Liviu Butoi - oboe and flute. Phoenix was born again the next year, with Covaci, Josef Kappl, Mircea Baniciu, Costin Petrescu (replaced in 1974 by Ovidiu Lipan, nicknamed " #354; #259;nd #259;ric #259;") and Valeriu Sepi. But the Communist officials were not very comfortable with the Western-style music that they were singing, and kept creating them problems. So Phoenix abandoned beat turned to Romanian folklore, pagan rituals, mystic animals and old traditions. In this same ...From:070blazeViews:1 0ratingsTime:03:46More inMusic

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