Gheorghe Zamfir - Doina De Jale (original single version)

[anduluvlummy]

cand vreau sa imi descarc sufletul, pun cantecul asta si.....parca mi se iau toate de pe suflet. Respect Maiestre!!!

[MrMarius1567]

Sunt Putini oameni care inteleg aceste versuri, 

[GamingChannelEurope]

@MrMarius1567 Foarte putini , din cate se vede in comentari....

Dar e frumoasa...

[nv7103]

thanks for sharing that nickhirst. Man wrote the religion but the spirit burns like a candle inside every being. Does a church need gold to bring peace to a lost or tortured soul in need? Methinks humans think too much instead of just being and enjoying the music around them in a church without walls except for those built in our minds. A beautiful tune and I can appreciate the spiritual high the player must have felt when playing this. Talent shared for all. Thanks for sharing it.

[nickhirst999]

Oh don't worry, by the way Mehefinheulog, Astrophonix and I are old personal friends. We met up only a couple of days ago, we're just having a laugh, though it was me who guided him here!

Astro: You're a smug git!

[Mehefinheulog1]

@nickhirst999 fine by me - the more laughs s the better!!

[nickhirst999]

I think that really, I just adore the absolute purity which Zamfir produces with those pipes. Certainly there is something spiritual about it. It is not for me to tell him or you, about god. He makes those pipes sound other worldly. No one else on Earth can play like he can.

He is pure in his playing and he plays the Pan Pipes as if they were invented for him to play, and he the only person who knows how to play them.

I don't think anyone can touch him.

[astrophonix]

I feel sorry for all you guys who have been looking for this for 15 to 30 years. It just took me all of 10 seconds to find it!

[nickhirst999]

@astrophonix

Smug git!

[nickhirst999]

@astrophonix

Yes Gary. The reason you found it so damn easily is 'cos I told you where it was! I told you who it was by and what it was called! That made it quite easy for you to find! You smug git!!

Lol!

Anyway, for those of us who had to do a bit of detective work, well:

THIS single reached number 6 in the UK charts in August 1976. For those of us watching the BBC's re-broadcasts of TOTP from 1976, on BBC4, it should be shown in the next 3 weeks!

[astrophonix]

@nickhirst999 I know you showed me this video, I was just joking with all the peeps who also took years to find this. It was either that or say I've been looking for this song since before it was even written! It'd be cool if TOTP has Gheorghe on it, maybe you could video it and we'll then have the maestro himself playing it?

[nickhirst999]

@astrophonix

Aha! Nice we're still both up on a Monday morn at 2am! This was a piece which was remniscent of Shine On part one, but that was 1975 and this was a year after.

The BBC used this for a religious programme called "The Light of Experience" . Gheorghe Zamfir was kicked out of Romania for saying that when he played his instrument , Romanian Pan Pipes, that he was talking to god

My own path as an atheist is that I can enjoy religious music. I like the Human spirit. Not the holy!

[Mehefinheulog1]

haha

well you can enjoy it - but maybe a bit like a teetotaller enjoys a fine malt whisky, or like a non-smoker enjoys a rich Havana cigar ... it smells very nice but you never really taste it, and you dare not inhale?

but thanks for the comment

[nickhirst999]

@Mehefinheulog1

Ooh interesting! You have a point. And a good one.

Doina De Jale was a BBC single in August 1976. In August 1976, I was 7 1/2 years old. I remember it (this the single which you have uploaded).

As a 7 1/2 year old I wasn't into fine malt whiskys or Havana cigars but I tell you what!

You've REALLY got me into the idea. I'm gonna have a cigar and a single malt whilst listening to this!

I'm 42 now, so I'm allowed!

Yum!

Thanks, Mehefinheulog1!

N

[Dimmarth]

ma electrizeaza piesa,de cate ori o aud,imi zdrobeste inima

[lisa123369]

Just adore this track been looking for it for over 15 years, thank you so much for posting. Just takes you away gently.

[alexajahm]

preciosa!

[6z5y4x]

Sa fiti linistit. Sunt englez, locuiesc in Romania si imi place de minune aceasta muzica. De fapt imi place inima romanilor, mai putin inima politicienilor.



[broocklynman]

nu pot sa ma abtin aceasta capodopera a muzicii romanesti are doar 10,554 de vizualizari, iar in dreapta ecranului imi apare la suggestions guta doina de jale, si acel videoclip sau nu stiu cum sa ii zic are de sase ori mai multe vizualizari, tragetzi si voi concluzia ce se intampla cu gusturile in materie muzicala a romanilor

[zurghinho]

@broocklynman din pacate trebuie sa-ti dau dreptate. repet din pacate....:(

[broocklynman]

@2fast2furios4

desteptule daca te uiti la vidoeclip ce iti apare si tie in dreapta, nu tot nicolae guta??

[2fast2furios4]

@broocklynman vrei sa fac un print screen sa vezi ce melodii imi apar la sugestii?

mai si dai replay "inteligentule"

[222jenson]

oh! the light of experience..............

[hippimummy]

this lways sends shivers down my spine, thank you xXx

[vincereee]

"Doina" could be noun and also verb ("a doini"). As a verb it mean "to move soul". Try Dumitru Fărcaş - "Du-te, Dor, În Munţi De Piatră" (Go my soul in mountain of stone), or Dumitru Farcas - "Horea lui Pintea Viteazu", these are similar style music

[ivorlottandtonybroke]

Could I suggest "Sad Soul Song" as a translation? I appreciate your translation difficulties, the Russian word "toska" covers a similar range of emotions.

This piece was used as the signature tune for a British programme called "The Light of Experience", which featured people who had been through all sorts of dreadful times and come out of them stronger.

[vincereee]

@ivorlottandtonybroke The right translation for "Doina de Jale" by Gheorghe Zamfir, which is a specific romanian sound style, is a methaphoric expresion word (untranslatable) - "Romanian heart sorrow regrets upon the destiny of romanian soul" - that means the persons whose are deeply moved by this type of song could have only ancestral romanian soul. Its a kind of engramic romanian message for romanians souls to remember they are romanians wherever they are, whatever they forget their identity

[Turmasgades]

you're welcome! if you find doina interesting, i recomand you another one "Maria Tanase - Doina din Maramures" with a deep and haunting voice

[Turmasgades]

It will not be easy! “Doina” is a song specific to the romanians, who are directly expressed most various feelings: longing, sadness, love, hatred against the opressors, alienation, sorrow a.s.o. It reflects the communion of man with nature, human attitude towards life, death, the passage of time, his feelings. It’s quite complex and deeply! “Jale” is something between mourning, grief, melancholy, longing, dreariness. I could translate, synthesizing, “doina of grief and melancholy”!

[PeterTattersall46]

@Turmasgades Been looking for this for years. Only thing i could remember was, Light of experience. I remember feeling everything you have explained.So glad to have found it, it's so haunting.

[nickhirst999]

@PeterTattersall46

I've been looking for this absolutely beautiful piece of music, too for about 30 years and I've just found it!

It is absolutely inspired. Gheorghe Zamfir is an absolute genius. No one else in the world sounds like him.

[PeterTattersall46]

@nickhirst999 Thank you. Peace.

[Turmasgades]

this "doina" is actually an epic unwritten story of romanian soul! some kind of code. if you understand this song, then you will understand romanians too.

[alexoscuro]

What a beautiful piece of music from the glorious summer of 1976,such happy memories! Thanks for posting!

[daddysromangel]

wow...wonderful, thanks for sharing..mi-era dor

[pathworker2010]

this is the piece that brought zamphir to the world at large, close your eyes, relax, listen.. and let the music transport you to another world.