One of my favourite dead and buried Bucharest underground rock bands, Raza started out with a bang - their first video was aired on most TV stations, they nailed about five concerts in quick succession, and everybody in the know was talking about them in the summer-autumn of 2006.
Still, as most other underground bands, they didn't go nowhere. George Patranoiu, the lead guitarist, left in october 2006. The rest of the band opened for Uriah Heep and played some concerts in 2007 before disappearing.
Amintire cu haiduci is a cover of a folk song by Valeriu Sterian; you can laugh all you want at the video's idea (common people fed up with their crappy jobs turn into Nightwish/Evanescence-styled rock stars), I find it touching and rather well-done for such a shoestring budget.
Watch Raza's version here.
[later edit] After Google-ing for a bit, it seems they put out two more videos, a weak and bizarre rendition of one of their initial songs, Abdul, and a "Rage Against The Machine plays world music" video who left me even more WTF?, called Old Fat Frog.
I'm also wondering whether they actually turned into Electric Fence, as the YouTube user profile might suggest, or that's just a side project of the vocalist.
www.myspace.com/electricfenceculture
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