Bizarre Things at Bizere

Nomen Est Omen - Backstage (photo: Florin Marginean)

A very profound phrase says that the one on the top of the stairs is not so low as the people downstairs think. By extrapolation, while on stage, one lives a different feeling from those experienced by the audience. In 2009 Nomen Est Omen participated in a cultural project (initiated by the Museum of Archaeology and History from Arad) in Bizere - Frumuşeni, where a XII century Benedictine monastery was found. The event, coupled with a fair, gathered an audience composed (mainly) of local people, the so-called peasants, some archaeologists, a television, few local authorities, the police officer Pamela and last but not least, a beautiful girl specially coming from Timisoara, who knew Nomen Est Omen from the previous editions of  the Sighisoara Festival. The concert was well received by public, which enthusiastically responded to the show, especially to the rhythm and costumes. No matter how strange the artistic moment seemed to the people watching it, the real bizarre things from Bizere were those the band saw from the stage, a spectacle both beautiful, unique and decent.

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Sleep in Graphic

Graphic and Nomen Est Omen at Şoimoş (photo: Florin Mărginean)

In 2009 Nomen Est Omen performed in the Fortresses of Arad County, strictly speaking. The homonym project, extremely interesting, materialized in a roving festival. Going from one site to another was made with the bus of the Philharmonica, but sometimes, as it was the case at Şoimoş, the musicians had to track on a narrow path to reach the fortification, on the top a super hill. All this in costumes, carrying the instruments on their back, about 45 minutes of walk. We arrived at about the middle of the concert performed by our friends from the band Graphic (from Arad), and after their concert it was our turn to play. We remember especially two things: Benny, the percussionist of the named band, carried a boulder (as Sisyphus) from the base of the hill, in order to have a stool during the concert and Nomen Est Adam, our colleague (bassoon player) who fell asleep in the grass while The Graphics played. After our concert started, suddenly a storm arose, but this is yet another story. The communion with nature was at its peak.

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