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Sanda Weigl Gypsy Killer (Oriente) Bucharest, Berlin, New York: The life of Sanda Weigl is a mirror of recent European history. In her native Rumania, she was a child star singing gipsy songs on national TV. A relative of Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow, she fled to Eastern Berlin with her parents in 1961. As a member of the rock band Team 4 she made it to the GDR charts. When she protested against USSR's invasion of Prague, she was banned from performing in public and later deported to Western Berlin. There she started a career in theatre which led her to work with Luc Bondy, Jürgen Flimm, Peter Zadek and Robert Wilson. Meanwhile Weigl lives in New York and got back to the music that characterized her youth and kept her alive in GDR prison: the passionate songs of the Roma and Sinti Gypsies that came over in the interpretation of the gifted Romanian singer Maria Tanase Listen: Lume, lume Pina cind nu te iubeam

More info: Musicians: Sanda Weigl – vocals Anthony Coleman – piano, organ, sampler Marc Ribot – guitar Glen Velez – hand percussion Ted Reichman – accordion Roy Nathanson – soprano saxophone Douglas J. Wieselman – clarinet, eb clarinet Brad Jones – bass Curtis Hasselbring – trombone Alexander Fedoriuk – cimbalom Roberto Rodriguez – drums, percussion Jim Pugliese – percussion Hans-Jorn Brandenburg – piano, organ Noah Hoffeld – cello Alicia Svigals – violin Matt Darriau – kaval, gaida Briggan Krauss – alto saxophone Curtis Folkes – trombone Basya Schechter – hand percussion Ken Dunlap – electric guitar

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