Monday, October 29, 2007

O-Zone

O-Zone is a fun band from Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe. O-zone split up in 2005, but before that, the members were Dan Bălan, Radu Sârbu, and Arsenie Todiraş, who have now all gone on to their own individual musical careers. A lot of O-Zone's music is very upbeat and energizing, and in the Romanian languge, although they seem to be the sort of band where a song is either absolutely stupendous, or rather boring. They were never very popular at all in the United States, except for their song “Dragostea Din Tei”, the real name to what many people know only as “The Numa Numa Song” from an Internet video from 2004 that quickly went from dashingly awesome to popular at an unfortunate level.


Anyways, my favorite O-Zone songs:


  • Despre Tine
  • Dragostea Din Tei
  • Ionize
  • Sarbatoarea Noptilor De Vara


“Sarbatoarea Noptilor De Vara” is an amusing song with a chorus sort of part that is really quite catchy. It has a pretty simple beat, which sometimes has whistles for some reason, but it works out fine with the rest of the music, which is also somewhat simple. The very subtle notes being played in a constant staccato manner throughout much of the song make “Sarbatoarea Noptilor De Vara” a pleasing song to listen to if you can pick them out. Because of that, I personally would have made them louder. The people going “Iyeee! Whoaa!”, as well as the background crowd of people laughing sometimes, put together with the somewhat back-and-forth aspect of the chorus sort of part makes it a nice song to both listen to and shout “Iyeee! Whoaa!” with your friends in a big car on a sunny afternoon while driving through the town with the music up and the windows down.


You can listen to “Sarbatoarea Noptilor De Vara” here.


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2 comments:

DumbFun said...

I absolutely love "numa numa" and i'll definately check out those other songs u mentioned. And if you can, get back to me about other euro pop groups that'd be awesome. Any euro group i find, I always end up loving their music. Another funny group is Gunther...kinda weird stuff but hilarious. And for some really good techno check out Basshunter and Scooter.

Goggin DuGalle said...

I too am a big fan of Gunther and of Scooter, and somewhat of Basshunter. I shall make sure write more about these artists and others of their kind!