GRAIU ROMANIA DARK FOLK, INTERCULTURAL FUSION Showcasing the versatility of the Balkans, GRAIU plays a dark folk fusion of Vlach and African-American traditional music. Their name is the Romanian word for vernacular language and music – the most local dialect that one is born and grows up with. GRAIU is about music that was not created for entertainment purposes. It is a remembrance of a cultural heritage otherwise disappearing along with the traditional communities that created it: ritual and dance songs, outlaw ballads, epic songs of love and sorrow, tunes from prisons, churches and work fields. 29
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