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His 1985 album, Atlantis, contained tracks composed by Jacques Brel and Eric Satie, plus music from films and Zamfir's version of " Stranger on the Shore". 3 hit on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart with "Blue Navajo," and several of his albums (including 1982's Romance and 1983's Childhood Dreams) have charted in Canada as well. His song "Summer Love" reached number 9 in South Africa in November 1976. It would prove to be his only UK hit single, but it helped pave the way for a consistent stream of album sales in Britain.
Epic Records released the tune as a single in 1976, and it climbed to number four on the UK Singles chart. Zamfir's big break in the English-speaking world came when the BBC religious television program, The Light of Experience, adopted his recording of "Doina De Jale", a traditional Romanian funeral song, as its theme. Zamfir put himself on the world map and since then his career became highly varied, hovering over classical repertoire, easy listening and pop music.īetween 19, Zamfir had six album peak within the Australian top 100 albums charts, with The Flutes of Pan, his best, peaking at number 26 in 1980. In 1977, he recorded " The Lonely Shepherd" with James Last. While the Philips recordings of that time were rather conservative, Zamfir preached revolution in the concert halls with daring performances. This was evidence of the growing ambition. His taraf joined a choir and a symphonic orchestra.
A turning point was the recording of Zamfir's composition "Messe pour la Paix" (Philips). It is said that this change was made to increase the command of Zamfir and have more artistic freedom. He changed the composition of the band soon after: Efta Botoca (violin), Marin Chisar (flutes), Dorin Ciobaru and Pavel Cebzan (clarinet and tarogato), Vasile Pandelescu (accordion), Petre Vidrean (bass) and Pantelimon Stînga (cymbalum). This taraf made some excellent recordings (CD Zamfir a Paris). His taraf consisted of: Ion Drăgoi (violin), Ion Lăceanu (flutes), Dumitru Fărcaș ( tarogato), Petre Vidrean (double bass) and Tony Iordache ( cymbalum) all number one soloists in their country. Zamfir discovered the much greater freedom for artistic adventure. In 1969 he left Ciocîrlia and started his own taraf (small band) and in 1970 he had his first longer term contract in Paris. This created the opportunity for composition and arranging. In 1966, Zamfir was appointed conductor of the "Ciocîrlia Orchestra", one of the most prestigious state ensembles of Romania, destined for concert tours abroad. Largely through television commercials where he was billed as "Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute", he introduced the folk instrument to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity.
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Zamfir continued to perform as a soloist in movie soundtracks by composers Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone and many others.
The movie received several awards, including the Top Foreign Film from the National Board of Review in 1973. The composer Vladimir Cosma brought Zamfir with his pan flute to Western European countries for the first time in 1972 as the soloist in Cosma's original music for the movie Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire. Zamfir came to the public eye when he was approached by Swiss ethnomusicologist Marcel Cellier, who extensively researched Romanian folk music in the 1960s.