They are known in their native Romania as "Taraful Haiducilor". Roughly, this means "gang of thieves", but "taraf" is also the traditional name for a group of lăutari (traditional Romanian Gypsy musicians). "Haiduc" or "haidouk" is a word of Turkish origin; in Romanian it has a rustic or archaic connotation. Most of those who know the band in the Western world know them by way of French-speaking areas, where they are known as "Taraf de Haidouks", since French lacks a genitive case.
The group formed in 1989, shortly before the death of dictator Nicolae Ceauseşcu. The original group encompassed about a dozen musicians; later configurations were to include as many as thirty. Early contacts in the West included Swiss ethnomusicologist Laurent Aubert and Belgian musician Stéphane Karo.
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Members
Some of the core members of the group:
Other members and collaborators
Albums
Commercially released
Non-commercially released
Before the Haidouks organized themselves as a group, many of them were recorded on an ethnomusicological album:
The following albums were produced by Fundaţia Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcas in Bucharest, in association with Euroart, the cultural fund of the Department for European Integration of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs of Romania.
*misspelling theirs
References
Liner notes of "Outlaws of Yore"External Links
Unofficial site with a lot of sound recordings, although not the greatest interface.