Zdob si Zdub

"Zdob si Zdub" (from Romanian – the imitation of Drum sound) musical band was put together in 1994 in Moldova.  At your attention! Roman tells “how it all began”–the prehistory you never heard before… Roman: “It all began around 1989-1990. Mihai (which is younger), Anatol (my classmate) and I went to the same school, No.2, in Straseni. I lived far away from the centre of our small town, and sometimes I was coming there, to meet with my friends. Together we played some music, tried to write some of our own songs, watched videos and talked about different things – namely, we creatively spent our leisure time. Gathering at Anatol’s place, we played and even recorded some songs (of The Beatles and Roxette) – our drums were the books and we had “antediluvian” microphones. We didn’t have our own instruments but forks, spoons, books and an acoustic very used guitar. All our “master pieces” were recorded on a tape recorder “Electronica 302M”. The slow process of playing the musicians transformed into something more serious when Mihai’s brother, Alexandru, came back from the army. A leader and a dream appeared. Alexandru (Sasha) played well guitar and he was ambitious. He gathered us into a band where everybody had a role. Sasha was the vocals and played guitar, Mihai played the...