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Dina Bušić - Nightingale - Forgotten Songs of the Zadar Arbanasi (2020) [Hi-Res]

Dina Bušić - Nightingale - Forgotten Songs of the Zadar Arbanasi (2020) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Dina Bušić

  • Title: Nightingale - Forgotten Songs of the Zadar Arbanasi
  • Year Of Release: 2020
  • Label: Nota Bene
  • Genre: World Music
  • Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 37:06
  • Total Size: 184; 360 MB
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BËRBILI
Nightingale
FORGOTTEN SONGS OF THE ZADAR ARBANASI

DINA E MEL
Dina Bušić, voice
Melita Ivković, guitar
Miroslav Tadić, guitar
Edin Karamazov, guitar, saz
Yvette Holzwarth, violin


Bërbili (Nightingale) – Forgotten songs of the Zadar Arbanasi is an ethnomusicological project authored by musicians Dina Bušić and Melita Ivković.
Featured are ten compositions as the authors rediscover, edit and revive the almost forgotten songs of the Arbanasi people who migrated from the Skadar Lake to the Zadar area in the early 18th century.
In collaboration with experienced musical artists of shared musical sensibilities - Edin Karamazov, Miroslav Tadić, and Yvette Holzwarth - Dina and Melita were able to preserve the old while at the same time creating something uniquely new.
The presented archaic songs in the Arbanasi dialect (Albanian mixed with elements of Italian and Croatian), one of Europe's most endangered languages, according to UNESCO, were arranged by these courageous musicians and painted with the various influences they brought to the project from their own destinies, life-long experience, and personal ethos.
Nightingale was recorded in 2018 at the Our Lady of the Assumption Church on the island of Zlarin in collaboration with the sound engineer Marin Fulgosi. The audio was mixed by Jan-Eric Persson, one of the foremost sound experts in Europe and owner of Opus 3 Records in Järna, Sweden, and the edition was published by record label NOTA BENE Croatia (www.notabenerecords.com) in 2020.
The project brought together a number of experts and enthusiasts whose work contributed to its realization, and most of all Maximiljana Barančić, PhD and expert in Arabanasi dialect; Bernard Kotlar, an avid collector of Arbanasi tradition who selflessly shared his records for research purposes of the Arbanasi music heritage; late Enio Grdović, long-term President of Zadar Arbanasi Society who shared with joy his own enthusiasm and records throughout the project; original singers Ermana Stipčević, Ana Modrinić, late Klara, late Edo, Fernanda and Đani Mazija, late Petar Uči Perović, late Palma Nikpalj, Lidija Kotlar, Duško Modrinić, late Efa Maršan, late Ana Perović, and late Nino Vladović Relja.
The program booklet is illustrated by Zadar artist and academic painter Josip Zanki, contains texts by project authors and is accompanied by a review written by the renown author Miljenko Jergović, who writes:
“Nightingale brings us the far-reaching echoes of the Balkans, the spirit and melody of the Italian inter-war canzone, rhythms of children’s nursery rhymes, the mood of festive tunes sung at the celebratory day of the community’s patron saint… The record is only partially an actual heritage, but even more so an expressed need to nurture the gift and talent of said heritage, to maintain and build upon the immense experiences of the small Arbanasi world.
It truly is exciting to hear how Dina, Melita, Edin, Yvette, and Miroslav complement and annotate the Arbanasi musical experience, and how the existing vacant spaces and grey areas of forgetting are filled up with their own interpretation, aesthetic faith, and fascination. Their music is one of a lived experience, not some unclear or assumed musical history, and is inscribed with words and mostly simple prosodic forms of a secret language. Besides being a true memento to the same small and gentle heritage that was brought to Zadar in May 1726, it also presents all of us today with a twofold gift. The Zadar Arbanasi are presented with their own little songbook, a reminder of how important it is to learn and know one’s own old language, and the rest of us are introduced to the Zadar Arbanasi and their culture as a treasure of our own treasure, the soul of our own soul.” http://www.dinaemel.com/en/

Tracklist:
01. Dina Bušić - Arbanasi, My Fair Village (3:18)
02. Dina Bušić - Nightingale (5:40)
03. Dina Bušić - One Day in May (3:44)
04. Dina Bušić - Officers I Am an Arbanas (2:31)
05. Dina Bušić - My Beautiful Morea (4:28)
06. Dina Bušić - Nights (4:56)
07. Dina Bušić - I Am Restless, Vana (3:03)
08. Dina Bušić - I Love My Mother (2:06)
09. Dina Bušić - Spring Bird (2:56)
10. Dina Bušić - Pieces of Music from Arbanasi (4:24)

Year 2020 | World | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl

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