Cigarets and Songs

The musical project AfterPhurikane Gila is based on an anthropological investigation in Roma settlements in Slovakia. Jana Belisova collected hundreds of old Roma songs. After this research she organized a workshop of 6 interesting Roma singers with three professional musicians, who tried to make music together. And so a powerful multicultural project started. People from different cultural and social layers are singing and playing together and the result is breathtaking. This documentary film, Cigarettes and Songs, records a one week long meeting of singers and musicians in Veľký Slavkov, where in August 2009 they recorded songs for the musical project AfterPhurikane Giľa in a local church. It is a sort of “making of” AfterPhurikane Giľa, which adds to this music a new dimension of reality, humor, and absurdity.

Contact:Jana Belisova, zudro@zudro.sk