Events & Albums
The Best of Zamar
Song of Celebration (2005)
This first venture into the genre of the recording industry, was a great introduction for the brand, giving the band a great tool to introduce their audience to their music. They recorded at the Fismer, Stellenbosch University Conservatorium, in front of a home crowd of about 500 people and therefor apart from the 8 tracks on the CD, they have added a hidden track of about 40min of background music. The repertoire includes:
- 1. Czardas – a well known violin virtuoso piece arranged for this unique combination of musicians
- 2. Smooglanka/Hungarian Dance – a Russian folk song combined with Eastern Europian gypsy style
- 3. Milonga – a Beautiful Argentinian dance
- 4. Sing a song of celebration – A Gospel song painting the setting of a feast table being set for the Final Feast of Tabernacles
- 5. Hava Medley – Combining Hebraic folk tunes into a festive celebration
- 6. Jesrusalem – Ukrainian Folk song rejoicing about the Holy City. Sung by the accordionist, Lyudmyla Rukavitsyna Heath
- 7. Acoustic Bash – a Medley of Irish tunes
- 8. Boeremedley – a Medley of South African Afrikaans Folk tunes
Spell on You (2006)
This EMI sponsored recording introduced some own compositions, but covered repertoire typical to the flavor of Zamar. The track list is:
- 1. Czardas – a well known violin virtuoso piece arranged for this unique combination of musicians
- 2. Smooglanka/Hungarian Dance – a Russian folk song combined with Eastern Europian gypsy style
- 3. Milonga – a Beautiful Argentinian dance
- 4. Sing a song of celebration – A Gospel song painting the setting of a feast table being set for the Final Feast of Tabernacles
- 5. Hava Medley – Combining Hebraic folk tunes into a festive celebration
- 6. Jesrusalem – Ukrainian Folk song rejoicing about the Holy City. Sung by the accordionist, Lyudmyla Rukavitsyna Heath
- 7. Acoustic Bash – a Medley of Irish tunes
- 8. Boeremedley – a Medley of South African Afrikaans Folk tunes
Passion becomes a dream (2007)
This CD is a unique production of 11 songs covering more the classical genre of the band’s repertoire and introducing compositions by Lyudmyla Heath, the accordionist for the band up to 2013.
- 1. Landscape – own composition by accordionist, Lyudmyla Rukavitsyna Heath with an Irish feel to it
- 2. Libertango – the band took their own take on Piazzolla’s composition
- 3. Lilac Mist Tango - combination of Por una Cabezza and the Lilac Mist Tango, ending off with the Hungarian Czardas, keeping the gypsy style vibrant
- 4. Oblivion – a beautiful arrangement of combining voice and piano to the original Zamar sound
- 5. Passion becomes a dream – own composition by accordionist, Lyudmyla Rukavitsyna Heath with a Romantic feel to it
- 6. From Russia with love – starting with the James Bond theme from Dr No, Lyudmyla Rukavitsyna Heath sings the song
- 7. Melody – an unknown piece of music for flute originally, but played by violinist, Veronica Bell accompinied by piano
- 8. Tam Neeba – a beautiful vocal ensemble piece
- 9. Autumn Dream – a Romantic piece by A. Joyce
- 10. Europa! – a medley of La Paloma, O sole Mio, Carmen and Milonga del 900
- 11. Argentinian tango – Actually known as El Choclo by A Villodo
Best of Broadway (2010)
Why not venture into the unknwon KNOWN world of the evergreen Musicals genre and explore the possibilities of the band’s sound in it. All of the instrumentals are rearangements playing around with musical elements to surprise the listener who would be familiar with the original version.
- 1. Some enchanted evening
- 2. Grease reprise
- 3. I dreamed a dream
- 4. If I were a rich man
- 5. Lion King reprise
- 6. Mama Mia Medley
- 7. Cabaret
- 8. Any dream will do
- 9. Somewhere over the rainbow
- 10. Memory
- 11. West Side story reprise
- 12. Summer Time
- 13. Takes 5 – own composition
- 14. Hic up Song – own composition
- 15. Tico tico – added for the fun of it
Dance like David (2011)
A genre which has been the undertone of Zamar’s music making journey, is the gospel music platform. This CD compiles songs that Zamar has played at numerous gospel events.
- 1. Leeu van Juda / Ons koning kom
- 2. He is exalted
- 3. As the deer/ Jesus groot bo almal/ I will serve no foreign god / Then sings my soul
- 4. How great though art
- 5. Agnus Dei
- 6. Song of celebration
- 7. Sing to the Lord
- 8. You raise me up
- 9. Pie Jesu
- 10. Gebed
- 11. Amazing Grace
- 12. King of kings
- 13. Dance like David
- 14. Here is love
- 15. Christmas Joy
- 16. Jesus loves me
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