Roma Band ‘Amaro Del’s New Album Out

Belgrade, Dec.8th 2009 (Serbia Today) - The popular Roma band “Amaro Del” famous for unique manner of performing of traditional Roma music will release a new album titled “Lilijako” early next year.
“The album is finished and since we have signed a contract with a Romanian music company, it will first be released there and then in Serbia at the beginning of next year. We are much more popular in Romania than in Serbia, we are often guests there and we frequently appearances in their media. I hope that we will have more opportunities to perform in Europe after the visa liberalization. We have great expectations for next year. We will perform at several festivals in France and we have already sent applications for the festivals in the Czech Republic, and Hungary,” says Marko Milovanovic, a guitarist of the band Amaro Del.
“Every other Saturday we play on the boat “Leonardo”. As far as bigger concerts are concerned, we mostly perform at the festivals. We played at EXIT 2006. We regularly play at the Festival of Street Musicians, the Days of Wine in Novi Sad, and the Palic Film Festival. Our band has been playing for 21 years and we are the most enduring Roma band in Serbia,” says Milovanovic.
Amaro Del is one of the more established Roma bands in Serbia, and they have carved out the reputation during the most difficult of times.
“Even during the difficult 1990s we remained attached to traditional Roma music and I want to point out that we play Roma music from about ten countries. Some of the songs are composed by us, but they will be included in one of our following projects. It is always awkward to talk about yourself and according to the people who come to our gigs, our concerts are unique experiences, something quite different from anything else, you know that it is Amaro Del and that is very important to us,” says Milovanovic. He has also expressed hope that during the Decade of Roma people from 2005 to 2015, Serbia will pay more attention to the promotion of Roma population and culture.
Just as in numerous other things, we are late in comparison to the rest of the world. In other European countries, there is much more promotion of equality of rights of Roma people. There are special TV shows and newspapers dealing with problems of Roma population, which unfortunately is not the case in Serbia,” Milovanovic concludes. .