What is the difference between Romany music and the music of the Roma? Now we can get the answer. Ando drom does not lead us to an elegant restaurant but to a place where the Roma play music and sing songs to their hearts? content sometimes in Hungarian sometimes in their own language. It is not about getting on the ethno/world music?s cart as a follower now days going faster and faster. Ando Drom only goes about its task. It is pulling down the walls separating people from each other.
For the first time when you are listening and watching the folklore group Ando drom on the stage you do not want to believe your eyes and then your ears. The moment the members of the group start singing the way of improvising on the special euphonious rhythm ,changing and building up the ancient melody the charmed listeners have a feeling that t the musicians are playing on the strings of their soul and bringing the more 1000s of years old culture as close as a real adventure..
When listening to Ando Drom one gets a sense of what universal Gypsy music is like. The music Jenő Zsigó and his friends make has nothing to do with the Gypsy music that is r equired by indifferent outsiders. The authenticity of their art is based on daring innovations and attempts to communicate. This music is intended for Gypsies as well as for those people who understand that Gypsy culture is for everyone in the world.