Celelalte Cuvinte
Celelalte Cuvinte (English: The Other Words) is a Romanian rock band from Oradea (German: Großwardein), Crișana (German: Kreischgebiet) founded in December of 1981, in Timișoara (German: Temeschburg), Banat and still active to this day.
Although it is generally accepted that Celelalte Cuvinte is a heavy metal band (with hard rock and progressive rock influences alike), the members of the band have equally experienced some other sub-genres like doom metal (noticeable mainly on the Armaghedon album but also on the Destin album by the band Cargo) - an almost unique experience in Romanian rock music - or, later, like alternative rock - in the Ispita album.
Celelalte Cuvinte is the first Romanian rock band that actually got the attention of the audiences that wanted elaborated music, after Phoenix fled the country in 1977 for West Germany. However, the Armaghedon album is definitely an underground one, so the band is both important for mainstream and underground Romanian music.
On September 12, 2008, the band has decided to make two songs form the new album - "Stem" and "Zmeie", the single that promotes the new album, available for streaming on their Myspace page. The album, called Stem, was released in October 2008.
The band continues to play concerts all over Romania.
Line-up
- Călin Pop - vocals, guitar, flute
- Marcel Breazu - bass guitar, backing vocals
- Leontin Iovan - drums
- Tiberiu Pop - keyboards, backing vocals
- Ovidiu Roșu - sound engineer
- Radu Manafu - guitar, backing vocals (until early '90s)
Discography
- Formații rock 8 (Rock Bands 8) (split LP, 1985) (tracks were republished on the Celelalte Cuvinte I CD in 2006 and 2017)
- Celelalte Cuvinte I (The Other Words I) (LP/MC, 1987) (republished on CD in 2006 and 2017)
- Celelalte Cuvinte II (The Other Words II) (LP/MC, 1990) (republished on CD in 2006)
- Se lasă rău (Evil is Coming) (LP, 1992)
- Hit-uri (Hits) (MC, 1994) (compilation)
- Armaghedon (Armageddon) (CD/MC, 1994) (republished in 2007 and 2014)
- Vinil Collection (Vinyl Collection) (CD/MC, 1996) (contains most tracks from the first three LPs)
- Ispita (The Temptation) (MC, 1997)
- NOS (CD/MC, 2004)
- Stem (CD, 2008)
- Un sfârșit e un început - Muzică de colecție, Vol. 69 (CD, 2008) (compilation published with Jurnalul Național)
- Trup și suflet - Live acustic la Cinema Patria (Body and Soul - Acoustic Live at Cinema Patria) (CD/DVD, 2014)