ANGELS ABOUT the FILM - GLOBAL PRESS CONFERENCE

Introduction made by: Ilija Stankovic Project Producer 

    

Dear Friends, Dear Musicians, as many of you already know, after CD Gypsy Groovz Orchestra goes TuttiMundi that was highly ranked on Songlines/BBC competition for world music band of the planet and initiated 120 musicians from 15 countries to play together. We worked in last 7 years on further unification of 10.000 musicians from 100 countries into one huge orchestra that unifies the biggest world music festivals on all the continents and all kinds of instruments made by mankind through the history. Discover our common musical archetypes in our common music by joining us in this collective work of art. We strongly believe that our common energy documented by our collective work art - film FiestaMania goes TuttiMundi, already appears to be huge, actually the strongest possible human way to make all the people re-think about the disappearing humanity towards our natural environment. After deep comparative study of traditional music of our planet , we found our musical similarities with traditional music from Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Czech Republic, Chile, China, Egypt, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Germany Japan, Mali, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Slovakia, South African Republic, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Vietnam, Turkey… 

Many of you are already in the production. You are from Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Poland, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Switzerland, UK, USA Tunisia and Trinidad  and Tobago. 

We welcome all of you to join us! 

Help humanity to survive...!

Ekrem Sajdic Gypsy Groovz Orchestra Vranjska Banja, Serbia 

ConcertMaster of the global orchestra

My name is Ekrem. I lost my orchestra during last 10 years while this film was prepared to be shooted. Therefore I decided to make one more step before I go - to make with Ilija the united orchestra of the world that would build up the respect of peace. 

For a peace in this world, it is enough to respect all the holydays of all the cultures. In the life like that you can be what you are and play own music as the part of global composition. Thanks to all my brothers and sisters playing with our orchestra for a sake of the humanity. Nature would return us this gesture with love…

GYPSY GROOVZ ORCHESTRA - AUDIO HISTORY

Gerald Achee, Musician Trinidad/ New York USA

I means something when the doors are opening itself, without knocking. Playing with Gypsy Groovz Orchestra for me was extraordinary natural experience. This was not crossover between different civilizations, this was meeting in love…

Engaging 400 trumpets from Serbia with 400 drumers of my native country means that gradsons of slaves from Trinidad would meet sufering people of Serbia in love...

Meeting the world orchestra in this state of mind of the humankind is a huge step for civilization. 

DRUMS OF FREEDOM - OVERVIEW

Davoud Kringle Musician New York,USA

Your country was bombed, mine was sold.

As we all choke on the lies we were told.

Wake from the nightmare in a rage

To find we are living in a dark age.

But don't worry, because in the darkest night

Is when the stars always shine bright.

And remember as innocent tears are wept,

The promise of success shall be kept.

Mirela Debljovic Writer - Film Script CoAuthor  Frankfurt Germany 

If music is a nation... I want to be a citizen. If the world is falling apart, what citizens of it would we be not to keep it together? And yes, we are all different and should develop ourselves to always better by respecting the Other as the Self and always keeping in mind that the suppression of the rights and human dignity and its combating must be a permanent concern of all. My very good friend, Ilija Stankovic, is substantiating this dream of many. By initializing the unifying energies of music mobilised through the active creation of the World Orchestra he proves that each individuation must be followed by the feeling of universal destiny of the world offering an active solidarity and empathy so tragically missed in the modern times.

Priest Steven Bukvich aka Muruga Booker

Musician and Priest Detroit, USA

It is my deep Spirit feeling that this film will help unite the people of the world as it is uniting the musicians of the world. For It is Spirit that creates all, and musicians and artists tap into that creative Spiritual Power naturally, co creating music and art in spirit with love and peace . I feel this movie will be a great example for the world to co create as the musicians and film artists do, creating a Heaven on earth and not war....WORLD PEACE THROUGH INNER PEACE AND THE UNCREATED LIGHT OF OUR SOURCE GOD . May God bring through this movie Wisdom on earth for us all to unite in love and the spirit of co creativity Amen Priest Steven Bukvic aka Muruga Booker the least..


Ljubo Pelican Healer & Musician 
Nova Gorica,Slovenia

Happiness is common when we are all connected. Energy that is spreading this film shows that we have been connected by our cultural roots and by love over all the edges of every possible imagination from the beginning of our mind. I am honored that I have became the part of it by the unification of the emotions of the right people, not only musicians, who are trying to improve this world. Congratulations to Ilija Stankovic for a great success that he has already achieved in bringing this message to the world.



Ebadul Huq Shaikat Sitar Player Bangladesh 

Hi friends, hope this musical movie will make world against the war. This movie will make one world for love peace and devotion.....

and I am very happy to be a part of this movie...

Hooshang Samani 

Journalist and multi instrumentalist from Teheran, Iran

Two Instruments or Two Guns

We live in turbulence world with many disgusting problems such as drag, crime, violence, racism, lie and etc. How can we solve these Issues? When we can remove these rooted, crammed and historical crises from our environments?

This is a fact that we are getting new technology every day however we are going down every time. Think by yourself at least 5 minutes, what is happening indeed?

There are two viewpoints. First; politicians and militarists who think power and gun can help us to achieve to deliverance. They are often busy about benefit and money and money. Fortunately there is a different idea opposite of this orientation. Cultural persons and musicians who believe our salvation depends to peace. That’s why they are trying to close different opinions as possible as.

Assume two men who have two guns. They stand opposite of each other and are trying to shoot. We can suppose two positions. First, one of them was killing and second, both. That’s impossible if we want to have two winners in this field. No war never has two winners. Finally we will have one winner and one loser. That’s a real law in our world.

Now; imagine two musicians who want play two instruments, for example guitar. When one of them plays a melody, the other player try to accompany his/her partner by same or different melody or chords. They want present a great music together. They don’t want eliminate each other because they need a complementary.

Hence we can understand people who work as a player, conductor, composer, filmmaker and etc. One of these efforts is the film production FiestaMania goes TuttiMundi by Ilija Stankovic. This international project has great aims. “The biggest music film production in the world” in first glance we think that’s incredible! Fortunately it is an acceptable fact that filmmaker try to gather many musicians from all over the world for his excellent purpose.

This project invites whole artists to cooperation without any specification such as skin color, religion, nationality and culture. That will be help people to understand each other more than sports competition because nobody want to be a winner while all of them can be a winner.

Praveen Rathore Music Producer 
Jodhpur Rajasthan, India

As you all probably know the native land of all Gypsy people on this world.
It my honor to host the film production FIESTMANIA goes TUTTIMUNDI in Rajasthan and provide the musical meeting between Gypsy Groovz Orchestra with the oldest music maestros in my country most famous festival of traditional music Rajasthan International folk Festival.
My warmest regards to the people of Serbia who initiated this project and the musicians from all the continents who support it.
Peace!!!

Maria Volonte Singer Buenoss Aires, Argentina

http://mariavolonte.com/

Huosain Subsaby, Fourder of Silk Road festival Damascus, Syria

Hello to everybody from my dear home city Damascus, let us hope that one day we would be able to unite all this orchestra once again in our country on the new Silk Road Festival and host your film production here with many different nations and musicians

Thanks to Silk Road festival in Damascus, Syria is the meeting point of 17 nations along the ancient Silk Road. We are so proud of it and hope to have it organized very soon again!

Ilija Stankovic answers:

God help you and your family to survive the war and have Silk Road Festival made better than ever. I know that you have been a peace maker all your life and thank you for joining our film production with all 17 nations. We will make your festival in the film only to keep the memory on the peace and show where the light is! We all love this song and hope to have it performed with all 60 nations in the film. Important to mention is that Huosain has writen and cooperated on the film from the middle of the war in Damascus. My deepest respect for his efforts to cooperate while his electricity and internet supply are very sporadic and life danger permanent. My deepest respect to this professor of traditional music and founder of the festival of 17 nations. Impressive! 

Bernhard Mikuskovics, multi instrumentalist from Vienna, Austria

 A big Hello to my friends from Serbia, to Ekrem Sajdic and to the whole Gypsy Groovz Orchestra. For me as a multi instrumentalist the most impressive part of the film „FiestaMania goes TuttiMundi“ is to play for the first time ever with the orchestra, that consists of all the instruments made by mankind throughout the history. I am very honoured to be part of it.

 

Vaggelis Tsagklis, Musician from Athens, Greece

     

Ma YA Dancer Monpellier, France

Mmmh In short words,,,, i am following an energy in my Heart all my life like a blind guy balancing on a wire but then one day i reached out and found something. An energy so big that has so many different ways, music and people that the wire was cut and I got free now the most important thing for me is to live for it and i see today ist the time for unite for sharing and make fusions

to show what we have all in commun - same energy...Trance in Roma music,

Trance in African drums, in Indian Music, Mexican trumpets everywhere I find it... and Angels are playing trumpets too...a marriage of Heaven and Earth and we dance and play in it

and specially our gypsy trubaci (brass players) - for me personally are masculine, these instruments are men and we women we dance. We are the feminine aspect in that so the circle is rounded.

Svjetlana Milijevic Scientist, 

Production Assistant, Luzern Switzerland

Ilija, when I first heard about your idea, I was blown away. This is a unique movement never done before where you show that people can be together in their diversity, and diverse in togetherness. At first glance, one might think that this project connects the incompatible, and thus making it mission impossible. However, you have been connecting the dots in such a harmonious form that this can only bring the nations closer and help us recognize the emotions of other nations' music. It gives us the ability to blend in and correctly interpret their music, their cultural heritage. Not only that your project accomplishes the above, but also demonstrates the synergy of music and our environment. It creates awareness about human impact on the nature and inspires people to commit to the more sustainable thinking and living. Serbia is lucky to have such a visionary. I continue to follow your work with much of interest. Greetings from Swiss Alps.

Orchestra Fanfare Transilvania, Romania

Marko Vuksanovic Philosopher, Musician Nova Gorica Slovenia 

Well, at first look, Fiesta Mama goes Tutti Mundi really looks like utopic, impossible project. But knowing Ilija since early eighties-the world was young for both of us then - when he was still in the rock'n'roll business in ex Yugoslavia(we worked on some projects in Slovenia, not mentioning his volunteer efforts to help in my group's career), I recognized that he would go much further in his work in the future. And most important, I learned from him is that making things possible is not just dealing with money, you have to have vision, you have to cooperate, you have to know what you are doing and you have to be a long term runner. Gypsy Groovz Orchestra project was probably one of the spring-boards for this movie, which is not just logistically huge: the greatest thing on it, is in it's message, that cultures are equal in their diversity. I am glad to have possibility to be a small part of efforts trying to reach this goal.

Gurdial Singh Namdhari Musician, Punjabi, India

Ollah Gypsy All Stars Budapest, Hungary

Dganit Daddo Singer, Actress

Tel Aviv, Israel Israel

I am proud and happy to take part in this huge orchestra.
Wish all of you light and love that will make our world a better place........
For our children and for Mother Earth

https://myspace.com/daddoisrael

 

 

 

Boris Leiner Musician Zagreb Croatia

In the beginning it was the rhythm only. 
Rhythm is vibration, vibration is energy...There is no movement without rhythm and there is no life without rhythm as well. Drumming purifies me, drumming frees me. My dear drummers, let connect Us together through a positive vibration in the rhythm of planetary brotherhood! Greetings for everyone from sunny Zagreb-Croatia and let the rhythm be with You :))

Branko Ronaldo Usejinovic 

Musician, Vranjska Banja, Serbia

I am 16 and from Vranjska Banja on the South of Serbia

I love to be able to play bass drum in the world orchestra with big maestros of music of this planet. I would be the happiest to meet the drummers from Africa, Brasil, India and Trinidad. I know that this world has a lots of pour people that suffer from hunger as there are a lots of them on the south of Serbia around me. I would be glad to help that all the hungry people at least one sandwich from the incomes of this film. I know we would need many sandwiches but I also know that our music would be strong enough to buy that much sandwiches.

 

Mohammad Zakkerhossain Musician Shiraz,Iran

Ferial Moradi Producer from Iran/Norway 

Very warm regards from Bergen, Norway! I have made a video of my dear friend - musician in Iran feeling that this film makes us part of the world need for humanity - the thing that we all need so much. This planet must find new solutions for shorter way to that! Here is our video made in the 7000 years old city of Persepolis ancient capital of Persia

Hamudi Dabdoub Musician, Haifa City, Israel

Ghalia Benalli Singer, Tunisia / Belgium

OH my God!!! can't wait to be a part of this amazing beautiful project... for sudden and despite all painful struggle everywhere, this world appears to be so magic... I believe these amazing ancestral energies all together, would bring (back) the Divine on earth... and that's exactly what we need nowadays!!

Music Family from Bhopal, India

 

Mexico joins FiestaMania

 

The founder of a great orchestra in Marrakesh, Morocco

 
 

The leader of the Orchestra in Armenia

 

   Romania joins FiestaMania

 

 

Sitar Maestro from Bangladesh

 

  

 

Olalekan Oduntan - Poet musician from Nigeria

 

 

Gullie De Castillo MultiInstrumentalist from Uruguay

 

   

Tanar Catalpinar Saz Maestro from Turkey

 

 

Smiles of Unity from Havana, Cuba 

 

   

Shamanic Choir from BelaRus

 

 Bebi Dol Singer, Belgrade,Serbia

BEAUTYFULL... MOVING... THIS MUSIC AND THE SOUND AND THE STYLE OF IT, OBVIOUSLY, HAD THE POWER AND NOVELTY, IN ITSELF, TO INSPIRE THE ELITE OF, SO CALLED, WESTERN MUSICIANS AND PRODUCERS... LIKE B.ENO, DAVID BYRNE, J.HASSEL AND MANY MORE... LET,S DO SOMETHING A/BOUT IT. LET,S GET TO/GETHER AND GIVE OUR BEST TO IT.

John Contway , Great grand son of legendary Native American chief Sitting Bull

Shadow People of the Blood Moon
By Itate’ Tatanka Mato

My ancestors are great Lakota medicine men and a holy woman was my great grandmother. My great-great grandfather is the voice of the four winds of the world that speak to the wise ones. It is my grandfather who speaks to you. I was born of the ash of our great genocide. I remain a ghost, a shadow in the world of which I live. I look up at no one and look down on no one. The government tells me I am neither Native American or white. They tell me I am not a Lakota, I have lived in the white world most of my life. Although our government denies my heritage I fight for the social injustices to my ancestors. I live the beliefs that my mother and father taught me.

Twenty years ago Creator brought my brother Priest Steven into my musical life, our band of brothers and the life of our Native American people. As musicians we experienced a new world in the creation of the Magic Mountain album recorded in 1993 in San Francisco  The years have past, but our brotherhood remains intact. My brother Priest Steven introduced me to Ilija Stankovic and the vision of global peace. There are many social and human injustices that deny progress and enlightenment. The stripping away of untruth leads us to discover our potential, capacities and means for brotherhood in global peace. If we are able to find emotionally intelligent, empathic awareness and communication for our fellow leaders and constituencies, we can create a new design of human thinking above and beyond greed, hatred, violence…the injustices of humanity. 

The struggles around the world for equality and social justice are met with oppressive forces to exterminate global rights for people of ethnic cultures. Manifest Destiny has run its course in the 21st Century and we are on the edge of the storm. The leaders who came before us laid down their lives for our rights and freedoms. They put up a good fight, and leave the struggle to people like us, the people of the world, the stories that are yet untold. The struggle for global peace is a challenge to who we are as a global humanity. The voice and spirit of justice is spreading throughout the world, a hunger for something real, authentic expression and communication. The hundreds of languages are brought to emotional empathic expression through a unification of one musical voice. 

It is a voice that must be heard if humanity is to thrive and rise above the forces challenging our right to exist in the world as individuals, communities and global free nations. The vision to heal the world is one of dreamers who know no other way and realize the dreams that are beyond their comprehension. The song of change starts with one note, one beat of the drum. One beat of the heart that brings hope for humanity and global synchronicity. I ask the people of the world to join the Nanissaanah, the power of ancient grandfather spirits, for the cleansing and purification for the people of the world. 

Our global humanity has reached critical mass throughout the world, with impending global war and destruction looming on our socio-economical, cultural, emotional and spiritual horizons. The polarization of ideologies have led our human potential to impulsive and erratic decision making that threatens the existence of the human race. Emotional intelligence, empathic education, communication and awareness create the potential to redirect our personal and family sense of autonomy and well being. We have the power to generate a community, national and global awakening to return our communities to safe harbors, to live in peace and raise our children. It is our children’s right to ascend to their unlimited potentials through future generations embraced in a culture of diversity, acceptance, inclusion and understanding.
The words of Black Elk echo, ‘Hear me, four quarters of the world, a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. Great Spirit, my Grandfather, all over the earth the faces of living things are all alike. With tenderness have they come up out of the ground. Look upon the faces of children without number and with children in their arms, that they may face the wind and walk the good road to the day of quiet’ This is my prayer, hear me!