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Artist
Mircea Florian
12+ albums
Romanian
about
Mircea Florian is one of the most particular Romanian musicians. His artistic ideas overpass the music field, inscribing themselves in phenomena like the "performance", happenings or other avantguard movements. Starting as a folk musician, having even a few "well-behaved" songs, Florian starts little by little to draw further from the standard forms of expression. At the beginning this distance appears at lyric level, then the approach changes, in the end recording a clear break from what could be called conventional. With a passion for experimental music and constantly attracted by the noncomformist sphere, M. F. ends up totally displaying his point of view only within the Florian Din Transilvania project. Musician and multimedia artist Mircea Florian started his musical career as a folk singer, in the late 1960s. Soon, he developed a fusion between Romanian folklore and Eastern music, adding some Indian flavor on the recordings with the use of sitar (played by Ljubisa Ristic) and tabla played by Arif Djafri. Although psychedelic music was not well seen in '70s Romania, M.F. (guitar, cobză, vocals etc.) - with several guest musicians - realized some remarkable recordings of psych-folk music. In the 80s, he began experimenting with electronics and started playing new wave music, with his band Florian din Transilvania. Born in Satu Mare on December 5, 1949, he studied cybernetics at the Faculty of Economic Calculations in Bucharest from 1967 to 1972. His first musical appe
