Harmonija Disonance Ensemble, Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra – Harmony of Dissonance: Traces of Croatian Traditional Singing (2019)
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HARMONY OF DISSONANCE brings together, juxtaposes, and intertwines the disparate singing styles of the regions of Dalmatia, which remain stylistically and performatively distant even today. While these musical worlds present seemingly irreconcilable musical and cultural differences, they are all connected by polyphonic singing, which forms the core of this collaboration between the Harmonija Dissonance Ensemble and the Jazz Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb.
The Harmonija Dissonance Ensemble turned to their experiences with renowned traditional singers as well as to ethnomusicological field recordings of the songs that are included on the album. The process of music making in the Ensemble is firmly grounded in the act of concentrated listening, guided by the goal of coming ever closer to the sound ideal of archaic traditional harmony. The Ensemble first performed this representative program of traditional singing in Zagreb in May 2017. The songs are musically intriguing and performatively challenging, reflecting both local specificities and the heterogeneity of expressions, styles, and genres. An initial recording of this performance then became the inspiration for composer Zoran Ščekić, who has “translated” ten of the songs into a series of instrumental miniatures which are woven throughout the album, performed by the Jazz Orchestra of the Academy of Music.
On HARMONY OF DISSONANCE, the polyphonic singing of traditional songs from disparate areas of Dalmatia is given a second life in new and different interpretations which, while significantly distant from their original performance contexts, remain stylistically and melodically close to their source. These experiments with tradition, colored by the artistic expression of the latest generation of academic musicians, can present one possible answer to the question of what might happen on a contemporary journey in search of “the traces of traditional singing.”
Tracklist:
01. Ispod panja javorova / Izvir voda izvirala
02. U jablana duga grana (1)
03. Slavuj piva, daleko se čuje
04. Procvitala kitica fiole
05. Daj mi, majko, dinar-dva (1)
06. Ej, da je dragi doći mojon kući
07. Moj je dragi daleko dabome
08. Oj, Gospe Sinjska
09. Pjevala bi ‘ko i cure dvije
10. Moj je dragi daleko dabome
11. Daj mi, majko, dinar-dva (2)
12. Sve se more u valove dalo
13. Bukovico, moj debeli lade
14. Evo iđem sa Zvirića
15. Šenice bilice
16. Izvir voda izvirala
17. U jablana duga grana (2)
18. Ko se, nano
19. Berem dunje, al’ ne lomim grane
20. Milo ti me
21. Dođi, dragi, dođi, janje moje
22. Ko bi reka
23. Ovamo dojdi, sokole
24. Na Neretvu misečina pala
25. Zapjevaj mi, jaranice moja (1)
26. Zapjevaj mi, jaranice moja (2)
27. Mesliđane, ‘ko ti bere grane
28. U jablana visokoga
29. Dođi, dragi, kad čobana ima (1)
30. Dođi, dragi, kad čobana ima (2)
31. Moj dragane, izvore od Drine
Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra
Saša Nestorović, conductor
Harmonija Disonance Ensemble
Joško Ćaleta, artistic director
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