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TUMBE

Cântits veclji tu lumi noauâ/
Old songs in a new world.

Launched and supported by Subcarpați Cultural Center, TUMBE is a musical project built on a profound message about the place of cultural traditions and diversity in today’s world. It is deep-ly rooted in Aromanian folklore and culture, but offers a fresh, contemporary musical outlook. TUMBE brings back to life old Aromanian songs through an innovative style of musical expres-sion. The beauty and t

he rich meanings of Aromanian traditional themes have inspired the mu-sicians and producers of TUMBE to place them in a melting pot, work their alchemy, and bring forth world music or jazz fusion sounds. Their intention is clear: to preserve the essence of old Aromanian music and to showcase its full potential through elevated forms of musical produc-tion and live performance. TUMBE currently consists of: Mara (lead singer), Teo Fudulea (backing vocals), Radu Vâlcu (gui-tar), Mihai Balabaș (violin, live electronics), Răzvan Florescu (vibraphone, melodica, traditional percussion), Răzvan Gachi (clarinet), Mircea Ardeleanu Jr. (bass, double bass), Marcel Moldovan (drums), Marius Alexe aka Bean MC (composer/musical producer). Mara, the daughter of an Aromanian family, is thus fulfilling a mission from her ancestors – to sing to the whole wide world that Aromanians are here, alive, taking their values into the future. TUMBE is, therefore, part of an important cultural awakening of Aromanian ethnic identity, by helping preserve the old Aromanian culture and language, while at the same time creating a modern body of work that honors the vitality of this fascinating people.
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Many people know nothing or very little about the Aromanians. They are an old people, an unu-sual people, they have no country, they speak a Romance language that survived over millennia scattered around the Balkans (in Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania). This community displays a unique social model whose simplicity and modernity survived centu-ries of violent history in the Balkans without having its own government or institutions to rely on, without creating a class system, without internal conflict and social turmoil. Outside any borders, without schools and churches in their native language, the Aromanians managed to preserve their identity, their language, traditions, and Christian Orthodox religion by relying exclusively on the family and the ethnic community. The Aromanians have been a significant factor in the cultural consistency of the Balkans. They contributed with generosity and loyalty to the political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic spheres of the countries where they lived. They have been a vector of culture, tolerance and knowledge in multi-ethnic settings, a driver of trans-national unity and progress for the many peoples of the Balkans. The Aromanians chose to be a people among peoples, and their destiny can be defined in just two words by the phrase “iutsido – iuva” (everywhere and nowhere).

23/10/2025

S-adrămu lumea ma mari cu Șaraimanic ☀️
Let’s make the world bigger with .world ☀️

06/10/2025

Lumea iasti ma mari cu Șaraimanic, haristo! ☀️

ȘARAIMANIC pres. TUMBE, Expirat Halele Carol, 30 octombrie. Bilete: https://eventbook.ro/music/bilete-saraimanic-pres-tumbe

Lumea îndură miracole de-a lungul parcursului ei. Pe unele le aproximăm, pe altele le tăinuim, pe altele le trâmbițăm, după cât de călduț ne e locul de sub tălpi.

Unul din miracole sunt armânii. Oamenii ăștia, poporul ăsta a reușit să străbată milenii doar cu inima. Fără stat, așadar fără granițe.
În mare măsură neam de păstori, ei “s-au mișcat” mereu sub ocrotirea paradoxală a unui fel de stabilitate ancestrală.

Armânii se identifică cu muzica lor. Deși bogată în influențe balcanice, ea păstrează un caracter distinct. Dincolo de polifonie vocală, melisme sau ritmuri asimetrice muzica armânească e un continuu parcurs.

Trupa TUMBE pare și ea ocrotită, ghidată de acest acest destin al “mobilității”, de data aceasta, mobilitatea fiind una stilistică: temele așa zis tradiționale armânești sunt purtate, sunt “călătorite” prin expresivități de fusion, jazz sau electro. O nebunie, o splendoare.

Mara, solista de la TUMBE, venită și ea din familie de armâni din România, se înscrie, implicit, într-un soi de misiune de neam. Ca atare, TUMBE și muzica lor pot fi considerați, într-un fel, indicatori culturali ai acestui miracol sonor și etnic a armânilor.

Componența actuală TUMBE este: Mara (lead singer), Radu Vâlcu (chitară), Mihai Balabaș (vioară, live electronics), Răzvan Florescu (vibrafon, percuții tradiționale), Maria Enache (bas), Anthony Gutierrez (tobe).

Armânii sunt vii și contemporani, iar asta se simte sonor.
Viața asta a sunat mereu într-un mare fel. Sună și azi.
Fie să răsune!

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29/04/2025

soundcheck for tonight. feeling honored and grateful to perform on TNB stage at gala ♥️

19/04/2025

🎶 tumbi, tumbi di lilici…
🎶 bundles, bundles of flowers…

☀️ come into bloom and joy on this blessed day with us!

🗓️ Easter Monday, 21 April, 14:00
📍 Blooms Experience, Pātroaia-Deal, DB

02/04/2025

Mara’s vest is a handcrafted piece, part of the traditional Armân / Aromanian costume from Metsovo, the work of master craftsman Yioryi Bumba, and which she treasures as a true talisman☀️

photographer:

26/03/2025

we’ll be for the very first time on the stage together, although each of us has been there many times before ☀️

va s-him prota oara pi schena deadun, ma cafi unu di noi fu di multi ori aclo pânâ tora ☀️

🗓️ thursday, april 3rd, 20:00

🎫 tickets: https://eventbook.ro/music/bilete-ctrl-live-tumbe

11/11/2024

an honor to be in the JazzBook ☀️
nã tinjii s-himu tu Cartea di Jazz ☀️

🎶 30.11.2024 @ 8 pm

https://eventbook.ro/music/bilete-tumbe-live-performance