Mahala Raï Banda

Romanian gypsy band. The story of Mahala Raï Banda begins at the end of the nineties with [a514582] forming the group [a=Rom Bengale] in Bucharest. Their success had hardly begun – when this ensemble of young musicians was plagued and divided by addiction problems. [a514582] then created the initial line-up of the Mahala Raï Banda – a name inspired by the Gypsy suburbs of the big Romanian cities – which released a CD on Crammed Discs in 2004. Now the band is back with its mix of Romanian musical traditions, oriental pop, rumba Catalan, reggae and manele, the Roma pop with ambigious commercial success.