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1Reinventing the Blues on Ex-Soviet Georgia’s Black SeaManome Aina Vao ny Hira Malefaka Any Zeorzia Sovietika Teo Aloha Ao Amin'ny Ranomasina Mainty
2The Natural Born Lovers in full flow.The Natural Born Lovers eo am-piketrehana.
3Photo used with permission.Sary nampiasaina nahazoana alàlana.
4The following is a partner post from EurasiaNet.org written by Paul Rimple.Lahatsoratra fiaraha-miasa avy amin'ny EurasiaNet.org nosoratan'i Paul Rimple ito manaraka ito.
5Republished with permission.Naverina nalefa miaraka amin'ny fahazoan-dàlana.
6I'm playing the harmonica solo to blues-great Jimmy Roger's “Walking By Myself” on a makeshift little platform at a hotel in the grimy Georgian beach town of Ureki.Notsofiko irery tamin'ny faràra ilay hira malefaka malaza “Walking By Myself” an'i Jimmy Rogeron, tamin'ny sehatra kely natao maimaika tao amin'ny hotely iray tao amin'ny tanàna Ureki misy torapasika maloto ao Zeorzia.
7In the audience are 25 representatives of the local government, sitting around a long table, feasting on traditional fare of mtsvadi (roasted, skewered pork),khachapuri (cheese pie) and herbed tomato-cucumber salads.Olona miisa 25 misolotena an'ireo mpitondra eo an-toerana no mpijery mipetraka eo amin'ny latabatra lava iray, mihinana mtsvadi sakafo nentin-drazana (hena natsatsika, masikitan-kisoa),khachapuri (mofo misy fraomazy) ary saladinà voatabia sy kaokaombra.
8They listen impassively to our band's performance.Mihaino tsara ny fampisehoan'ny tarikay izy ireo.
9It's not easy finding an appreciative audience for the blues in Georgia.Tsy mora ny mahazo olona mpihaino mitia ny hira malefaka any Zeorzia.
10Restaurants tend to favor a polyphonic repertoire or a singer-keyboard duo playing old, Soviet-era pop hits.Manome vahana kokoa ny fizahan-kira na olona roa mpihira ireo hira mihetsika mampahatsiahy ny vanim-potoana Sovietika ireo toeram-pisakafoana.
11Most bar patrons expect a live band to belt out standard favorites like “Pretty Woman,” Pink Floyd's “Another Brick in the Wall” and Eric Clapton's “Tears in Heaven.”Miandry ireo mpihira mahavita ny hira malaza sahala amin'ny “Pretty Woman,” “Another Brick in the Wall” an'i Pink Floyd ary “Tears in Heaven” an'i Eric Clapton ny ankamaroan'ireo tomponà trano fisotroana.
12We don't play those songs, and we don't masquerade with Raybans, black hats and skinny black ties.Tsy mihira ireny hira ireny izahay, sady tsy manova endrika amin'ny Raybans, satroka mainty ary karavato mahia mainty.
13We have played a few restaurants, but khinkali (meat dumpling) eaters make bad listeners and blues is an interactive form of music.Nilalao tao aminà toeram-pisakafoana vitsivitsy izahay, fa tsy mahay mihaino ireo mpihinana khinkali (hena baolina), kanefa ny hira malefaka karazana hira tokony ifampitàna zavatra.
14In Ureki, the guests, a polite, middle-aged bunch from Russia, Armenia and the capital, Tbilisi, are sitting and watching us as if we were a TV set.Any Ureki, mipetraka sy mihaino anay sahala amin'ny mijery televiziôna ireo vahiny mahalala fomba, olona eo amin'ny salan-taona antonony avy any Rosia, Armenia ary Tbilisi renivohitra, .
15At least the children, the most honest audience in the world, are dancing.Farafaharatsiny mandihy ireo ankizy, izay mpijery tsy mandainga indrindra eto an-tany.
16Our drummer, David Manizhashvili, has been trying for years to get me to perform with our band, The Natural Born Lovers, in Ureki, a down-at-the-heels hamlet located between Georgia's Black Sea ports of Poti and Batumi.Ny mpivelinay, David Manizhashvili, nanandrana ny hampiditra ahy efa hatry ny taona maro ho ao anatin'ny vondrona misy anay ankehitriny, “The Natural Born Lovers” ( Ireo Mpitia Natoraly Hatrany An-kibo), any Ureki, toerana ambany mitoetra eo anelanelan'ny fiantsonan-tsambon'ny Ranomasina maintin'i Zeorzia ao Poti sy Batumi.
17But I've shared a small room and bath with my four snoring bandmates at a resort before.Fa nizara efitra kely sy toeram-pidiovana niaraka tamin'ireo namako efatra mierotra tao amin'ny toerana iray fialana sasatra aho tany aloha.
18I also have a day job and am picky about gigs.Nanana asa ihany koa aho ny andro, ary tena mitandrina tsara amin'ireo fampisehoana ataoko.
19My Georgian band members, however, don't have that luxury.Ireo mpikambana tao amin'ny tarika Zeorziana misy ahy anefa, tsy nanana izany.
20With the exception of our guitarist, Tamaz Tkhinvaleli, who owns a little neighborhood bakery, they somehow make a living playing music for 30 or 40 laris (roughly $13-$17) a night.Afa-tsy ilay mpitendry gitaranay, Tamaz Tkhinvaleli, izay manana fivarotana mofo kely tao amin'ny tanàna, manao ny filalaovana mozika ho toy ny fidiram-bola iainana izy ireo, ary mandray 30 na 40 laris (manodidina ny $13-$17) ny alina iray.
21The Natural Born Lovers have shared the stage with clowns, dancing girls, amateur models sporting maladroit designs and vacuous masters of ceremony, but find dumpling eaters a difficult crowd to get going.Nifampizara sehatra tamin'ireo mpanao hatsikana, vehivavy mpandihy, mpanao fanatanjahantena tsy dia malaza loatra ary mpitarika fotoana tsy dia mahay loatra ny The Natural Born Lovers , fa mahita ireo olona maro mpihinana hena baolina ho sarotra entanina.
22Photo used with permission.Sary nampiasaina nahazoana aàlana.
23But even with two female singers, Nino Glonti and Bako Alania, who can deliver popular songs more suited to a local audience, work has been scarce these past months.Fa na miaraka amin'ireo vehivavy roa mpihira aza, i Nino Glonti sy i Bako Alania, izay afaka manome hira malaza mifandraika kokoa amin'ny fitiavan'ireo mpijery eo an-toerana, vitsy ihany ireo asa tao anatin'ireo volana lasa ireo.
24Hence, Ureki it is.Kanefa, io eo Ureki.
25But at least I got my own room this time.Fa farafaharatsiny mba nahazo efitra manokana ho ahy samirery aho tamin'ity indray mandeha ity.
26The last time I was in this town was in April 2012.Ny volana Aprily 2012 no fotoana farany nitoerako tao amin'io tanàna io.
27I had come to report a story about how local officials in the Guria region were pressuring opposition members to vote against the Georgian Dream coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.Tonga tany aho mba hitatitra ny tantara momba ny tsindry nataon'ireo tomponandraiki-panjakana any amin'ny faritr'i Guria tamin'ireo mpikambana amin'ny antoko mpanohitra mba hifidy ny hanohitra ny fiaraha-mitantana Nofinofin'ny Zeorziana amin'ireo fifidianana ny solombavambahoaka ho avy.
28Yesterday's opposition members became today's government after that vote, but that's about all that appears to have changed in Ureki.Lasa governemanta ankehitriny ireo mpikambana amin'ny mpanohitra omaly io taorian'ilay fifidianana, fa toa izay ihany amin'ny ambangovangony no niova tao Ureki.
29Guria remains one of the poorest regions in Georgia, with 54.8 percent of its estimated 113, 221 residents living below the poverty line, according to World Bank statistics.Mbola mijanona ho iray amin'ireo faritra mahantra indrindra ao Zeorzia i Guria, miaraka amin'ny 54,8 isanjaton'ireo mponina vinavinaina ho miisa 113.221 miaina ambanin'ny tahan'ny fahantrana, araka ny antontanisan'ny Banky Iraisampirenena.
30Ironically, two of Georgia's wealthiest people, multi-billionaire former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and the late billionaire Badri Patarkatsiashvili built beachside compounds in Ureki, Guria's little slice of the Black Sea.Toe-javatra maneso izany, ireo olona roa manankarena indrindra ao Zeorzia, ilay Praiminisitra teo aloha manankarena an-davitrisany maro, Bidzina Ivanishvili, sy ilay manankarena an-davitrisany efa maty ,Badri Patarkatsiashvili, nanamboatra torapasika any Ureki, ampahany kely amin'ny Ranomasina Maintin'i Guria.
31Developing Ureki would be vital to Guria's economic fortunes, yet the place looks much like it did in the early 2000s when I first visited.Tena miankina amin'ny fivoaran'i Ureki ny firoboroboan'ny toekaren'i Guria, fa hatreto aloha mbola mitovy tamin'ilay endriny tamin'ny fanombohan'ny taona 2000 fony aho nitsidika tany ihany ilay toerana.
32The town's main drag is a muddy lane full of potholes while trash blights the black-sand beaches for which Ureki is renowned.Lalana kely mamotaka feno lavadavaka no lalàna fototra ho an'ny tanàna, ary manimba ny torapasika mainty izay mampalaza an'i Ureki ireo fako.
33“There's no infrastructure here.“Tsy misy fotodrafitrasa eto.
34If there was, people would invest,” said Khatuna Lagazidze, the English-speaking co-owner of Kolkhidze Sanatorium, our band's host and employer.Raha nisy izany, hampiasa vola eto ny olona,” hoy i Khatuna Lagazidze, ilay olona miteny Anglisy, iray amin'ireo tompon'ny Kolkhidze Sanatorium, ny mpampiantrano sy mpampiasa ny tarikay.
35The band in discussion.ilay tarika eo am-piresadresahana.
36Photo used with permission.Sary nampiasaina nahazoana alàlana.
37The beachside sanatorium opened in the 1970s and was popular with Soviet citizens who believed Ureki's unusual sand was good for rheumatoid arthritis, paralysis, high blood pressure and various ailments.Nisokatra tamin'ny taona 1970 ilay toerana teo amoron-dranomasina, nalaza teo amin'ireo olom-pirenena Sovietika, izay nino fa tsara ho an'ny “rheumatoid arthritis”, paralizia, fiakaran'ny tosi-drà ary ireo karazana aretina maro ilay fasika tsy dia fahita loatra, any Ureki.
38But the fall of communism and Georgia's subsequent plunge into social and economic chaos was a death knell for health and holiday resorts across the country, Kolkhida included.Fa ny faharavan'ny kaominisma sy ny fitotongànana nandetika an'i Zeorzia tao anatin'ny fahasimbana ara-tsosialy sy ara-toekarena dia niteraka fahafatesana ho an'ireo toerana fialàna sasatra sy ho an'ny fitsaboana nanerana ny firenena, tafiditra amin'izany i Kolkhida.
39Lagazidze and her husband Amiran, both from Tbilisi, bought the hotel in the mid-1990s and restored it, including a clean private beach.Samy avy any Tbilisi i Lagazidze sy Amiran vadiny, nividy ilay hotely ny tapatapaky ny taona 1990 ary nanamboatra azy io, tafiditra tamin'izany ny torapasika manokana madio.
40Yet the vestiges of Georgia's communist past are evident in practically every family resort in the country, which typically offer an all-inclusive package with three cafeteria meals a day.Nefa, mazava tsara saika eny anivon'ny toerana fisintahana tantanan'ny fianakaviana tsirairay ao amin'ny firenena mihitsy ny lasan'ny kaominista tao Zeorzia fahiny, toerana izay manome tolotra feno misy sakafo in-telo isan'andro.
41Entertainment is often part of the bundle, too - in the full sense of the word.Ampahany amin'ilay fehezana ihany koa matetika, araka ny dikanteny mazava, ny dokam-barotra .
42Our band has shared the stage with clowns, dancing girls, amateur models sporting maladroit designs and vacuous masters of ceremony.Nizara ny sehatra tamin'ireo mpanao hatsikana, vehivavy mandihy , mpanao fanatanjahantena tsy dia malaza loatra ary mpitarika fotoana tsy dia mahay loatra ny tarikay.
43It can make for a surreal pageant that Federico Fellini would envy.Afaka manao fampisehoana tsy azo vinavinaina araka izay itiavan'i Federico Fellini azy io.
44At a New Year's holiday gig in Bakuriani, a popular spot for winter getaways in Georgia's Lower Caucasus, one drunk man, angry I didn't play Tracy Chapman, snatched my mike and began to shout a James Brown imitation of “I Feel Good.”Tamin'ny fampisehoana nandritra ny fialantsasatry ny Taom-Baovao tao Bakuriani, toerana malaza ho an'ny fialantsasatra fohy rehefa fotoanan'ny ririnina any amin'ny Toerana Ivan'i Zeorzia, nisy olona mamo iray, tezitra fa tsy nilalao ny Tracy Chapman aho, nisintona ny “micro”-ako ary nanomboka nanao ny hiran'i James Brown, ilay hoe “I Feel Good.”
45That was the year our employers put us up in a disused old hotel with no heating, towels or toiletries.Izany ny taona izay nametrahan'ireo mpampiasa anay tao aminà hotely antitra iray maloto, tsy misy fitaovana manome hafanana sy lamba hifafàna avy mandro na fitaovana fidiovana akory.
46I vowed never to play Bakuriani again.Nianiana ny tsy hilalao tao Bakuriani intsony aho.
47Kolkhida is not so gauche.Tsy dia ratsy loatra i Kolkhida.
48It wants to offer something the entire family can appreciate.Tia hanome zavatra afaka tian'ny fianakaviana manontolo izy.
49In addition to our band, they had a jumpy young MC who hosted karaoke and a “master magician,” Zurab Vadachkoria, who performed a little set that included the cell-phone-in-a-plastic-bottle trick.Ho fanampin'ny tarikay, nisy MC iray tanora misavoritaka, izay nampiantrano “karaoke” sy “mpanao majika” iray, Zurab Vadachkoria, nanao fampisehoana kely nisy ilay finday tao anaty tavoahangy plastika.
50If the audience is indifferent, we play harder.Raha tsy dia taitra loatra ireo mpijery, izahay kosa nilalao mafimafy kokoa.
51As we kick into a Slim Harpo number, the rhythm section slides deep in the pocket before Tamaz, our guitarist, shreds the solo to ribbons.Satria izahay manao karazana Slim Harpo, tafiditra am-paosy mora ireo bahan-kira mihetsika, mialoha ny hanaovan'i Tamaz, ny mpitendry gitaranay, ny filalaovana samireriny. Indraindray ahazoam-bola io.
52Sometimes it pays off. Kolkhida wants us back again next summer and has asked me to bring my family along, too.Mbola tia ny hiverenanay indray i Kolkhida amin'ny fotoam-pahavartara manaraka, ary nilaza tamiko ny mba hitondrako miaraka amiko ihany koa ny fianakaviako.