Bucium - Biography
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2021-
Biography
Bucium is a Romanian ambient folk-rock band defined by the use of two violins together with guitar, bass, drums, traditional instruments and voice.
Coming from a progressive area, Bucium convey - in a contemporary note - traditions, rhythms and popular believes, along with a show containing multimedia projection that turns their LIVE performance into a true cultural musical act.
Bucium perform both electric and acoustic concerts.
In 2008, the band launched their debut album - 'Voievozii' - mixed and mastered in Germany by Franky Winkelmann (Lake of Tears, Gurd, Destruction). The album, distributed in Romania by A&A Records, had favorable reviews within the music publications.
Main concerts: opening for Apocalyptica - 2006, for Bob Dylan - 2010, Medieval Festivals - Sighisoara, Ardud, Cetatea Neamtului, 'The last transhumance' project - unplugged concert accompanied video montages from the Dragos Lumpan's homonymic movie.
In November 2016, Bucium released 'Live in the Hidden Wood' album. 'With this album we tried to do this differently - for the first time we present it in a new packaging (22x22cm) every song having its own illustration created by the artist Tibi Militaru, and with a vinyl CD attached to it. The physical album has a download code for the digital album. Our purpose was to create a disc that people would want to collect in a physical format, not only in a digital one. The songs are from the Voievozii album and from the next two albums - Mioriţa and Zimbrul Alb.' declared Andi Dumitrescu, the band's leader.
Their style combines elements from various musical genres: folk, progressive rock, ambient, symphonic metal, tribal. Their songs, born from the ancient Romanian magical background, bring to mind old, forgotten rhythms and revive pre-Christian myths or archaic motifs from over 8000 years ago. The music smoothly flows from aggressive to melodious, from uplifting to passionate. And the band's sound is actually defined by this change of rhythms, by the alternation of the instruments and by the frequent change of tempo.
Bucium music presents to a wide audience a lot of motifs from the Romanian archaic background, myths and traditional rhythms.The name of the band is symbolic, denoting the Romanian alphorn, a musical instrument used by the Romanian shepherds in the mountains. Just as the old alphorn was used to transmit coded messages for confrontations, gatherings or celebrations, the band's songs are in fact stories, loathing and fairy tales. Both the lyrics and the rhythms are original. They were not passed along from generation to generation, but composed from scratch in line with the archaic Romanian sound.
Coming from a progressive area, Bucium convey - in a contemporary note - traditions, rhythms and popular believes, along with a show containing multimedia projection that turns their LIVE performance into a true cultural musical act.
Bucium perform both electric and acoustic concerts.
In 2008, the band launched their debut album - 'Voievozii' - mixed and mastered in Germany by Franky Winkelmann (Lake of Tears, Gurd, Destruction). The album, distributed in Romania by A&A Records, had favorable reviews within the music publications.
Main concerts: opening for Apocalyptica - 2006, for Bob Dylan - 2010, Medieval Festivals - Sighisoara, Ardud, Cetatea Neamtului, 'The last transhumance' project - unplugged concert accompanied video montages from the Dragos Lumpan's homonymic movie.
In November 2016, Bucium released 'Live in the Hidden Wood' album. 'With this album we tried to do this differently - for the first time we present it in a new packaging (22x22cm) every song having its own illustration created by the artist Tibi Militaru, and with a vinyl CD attached to it. The physical album has a download code for the digital album. Our purpose was to create a disc that people would want to collect in a physical format, not only in a digital one. The songs are from the Voievozii album and from the next two albums - Mioriţa and Zimbrul Alb.' declared Andi Dumitrescu, the band's leader.
Their style combines elements from various musical genres: folk, progressive rock, ambient, symphonic metal, tribal. Their songs, born from the ancient Romanian magical background, bring to mind old, forgotten rhythms and revive pre-Christian myths or archaic motifs from over 8000 years ago. The music smoothly flows from aggressive to melodious, from uplifting to passionate. And the band's sound is actually defined by this change of rhythms, by the alternation of the instruments and by the frequent change of tempo.
Bucium music presents to a wide audience a lot of motifs from the Romanian archaic background, myths and traditional rhythms.The name of the band is symbolic, denoting the Romanian alphorn, a musical instrument used by the Romanian shepherds in the mountains. Just as the old alphorn was used to transmit coded messages for confrontations, gatherings or celebrations, the band's songs are in fact stories, loathing and fairy tales. Both the lyrics and the rhythms are original. They were not passed along from generation to generation, but composed from scratch in line with the archaic Romanian sound.