Ursprung-buam: The boys of the Origin, or perhaps I should say the primordials...

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It was a night of grief and of crying

Since all conducted to the failure

they went the cousins and the brothers

they were going to burglarize and they were betrayed...

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As many, not myself, would like to forget, in this way began one of the classic works of Los Chichos, The History of Juan Castillo (and of the informer that went to "pucabar", do not ask what that means, as I did not passed the level A1 of the gipsy language). For the unfortunate readers that have not yet listened this "happy melody", here comes a video I found in You Tube, courtesy of IbizaLibre, that besides has included some harmonious simplified for guitar, that this very day I am going to practice: La, Sol, Fa#. and then the same thing in fifth Si (in 7º fret), La (5º fret), Sol (3 fret) Fa#. thus a little pa not to bundle us a lot.

The very thing is that I did not want to talk about Los Chichos , but about a cousin and two brothers that, instead of breaking the law, they decided to be dedicated to the music, like they the patriarchs of the flamenco-pop did before. It is a matter of the Ursprung Buam, an Austrian group, of the Tyrol for more signs (of the Zillertal for the ones willing to know their roots and source of inspiration). I tried to find this group (whose name until today I did not know) since I saw them shortly in the Grand Prix of the Volksmusik, but was not capable. Today, at last, I saw its unmistakable appearances in the cover sheet of a disk and I had no option appart from buying a copy (although I had to comply with me a discount "mix", as theoir CDs are highly quoted, around 18 Euro). In this mix for 9 euro you can enjoy 39 songs, but reduced to a short statement of a minute of duration. Their name, in boarischn (dialect of the Austrian Tyrol and South of Bavaria), would mean something like the boys of the origin * and they show a great talent interpreting happy melodies to the violin, accordion and bass, sometimes with a kind of harp. In spite of being a young group, they have several fanclubs (one of them settled in Freiburg, of which I am from now on its very first founder) and web pages dedicated to them, some with an unexpectedly trashmetal background music, that I am not sure whether belongs to the group ... (to see for example). http://conspirat.com/ursprungbuam/ So that you can appreciate their art, I leave you with a jewel of 21 minutes, in which their humorous and amusing mood can be appreciated.

Please press in the image to listen the sample "musical"

Curiously, the violinist Martin (the most forged one of the three, but also the nicest one), has certain similarities, so much in the appearance as in the voice, with the already mythical Cañita Brava, that versatile Spanish artist that became an usual guest of the affectionate program "El Semáforo" (the traffic light)... how good television was done then!!

And don't forget to buy a CD of the Ursprung Buam (or if you download it from e-mule at least divulge the good new one, as did Saulo of Tarsus in his day, after getting blind in the desert of Damascus, not very far from where the crazy Arab Abdul Al Hazred was devoured centuries later by an invisible entity).

For more information, as well as to the address to rent their apartment for holidays (an usual practice among the artists of the Volksmusik), do not hesitate to visit their web page:

http://www.ursprungbuam.com/

*I must say that Ursprung would also be able to be translated for "spring". At first sight, "The Shepherds of the spring" may seem a more logical name for a folk group, but this working hypothesis is ruled out automatically after looking at the musicians in any cover sheet of their disks.