it appears that Dan wanted to leave the O-zone experience behind

and I think that he lost "the numa numa thing" in the process... Sugar Tunes Numa Numa (part of the album that will be released next year) seems to be his farewell song to those times: you can hear all the songs on that album and see the Balan band live in Washington D.C. on October 3rd but I don't think this new band (which if I remember right features Dan as a soloist and a couple of Moldavian instrument players that, together with Dan, moved to the US shortly after the break up of O-zone and are currently living in LA) has much to do with "the numa numa thing"... Good luck, anyways!

Delia

Yes, they *do* speak Russian...

quite confortably... so why didn't Dan go after the Russian speaking market instead? (much larger than the Romanian speaking one...)? I guess he just didn't! and it may not have turned-out nearly as good for O-zone (Romanian is pretty close to Italian -- it's really the only Latin based language in Eastern Europe --> this may have made the sound of it more appealing to Western Europe).

Delia

some of the parodies were hilarious (without even knowing it...)

like this French one that centers on "poulailler" and its video clip features poultry -- all nice and dandy... it's just that... by pure chance in Romanian the sounds used by the French for their cutzy chorus mean: "the dick... the dick it is!" (2.24 time mark)

Delia

P.S. I can see the three O-zone guys stifling some serious laughter during that portion of the interview (just watch Arsenie) and graciously not mentioning what it means in Romanian... D.

Arsenie (Arsenium) keeps reinventing himself!

and he remains fairly successful (in Europe) : a "remake" of "Love me, Love me -- actually a blend with the Russian song "Kalinka," Latin-blues-rap "Loca" and ... mostly rap??? "Professional hartbreakers" (so far...)

Delia

more recognizable...

Te-am visat/Radio (I dreamed of you/Radio)

Delia

P.S. and no, "radio" has nothing to do with the rest of the song! does it still work? I think so... D.

The video clips for his songs can be quite good!

Doi straini (Two strangers) D.

But he's missing...

... the party atmosphere... D.