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BAND/ARTIST: Jrpjej
- Title: Taboo - Songs of Love & Death
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Ored Recordings
- Genre: World, Ethnic, Folk
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/48000 Hz (57.6%); 96000 Hz (42.4%) FLAC
- Total Time: 57:48
- Total Size: 360; 907 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Jrpjej is the main project, produced by the label. This isn’t music recorded in an expedition, but the result of many days of rehearsals, investigations, and live performances.
Since the release of the debut album, a lot of things have happened with Jrpjej. First, due to the pandemic we canceled the European tour. Then two members left the band, including the main vocalist Beabars Appesh. After the upheavals the quartet turned into a trio: the founder of the group Timur Kodzoko, the harmonica player Alan Shawdjan, who also took on all the male vocal parts, and the new vocalist Daiana Kulova.
Perhaps, the stress and new challenges allowed us to get together and find the right sound shortly. On the one hand, it continues the aesthetics of “Qorror”, and on the other, allows us to say something new.
Something new here is a more persistent commitment to the idea of “post-traditional music”. On “Taboo”, in addition to guitar and percussion, such atypical for Circassian music instruments as the cello and German bagpipes appeared.
The songs for the album are taken from archival recordings of the 20th century and from Ored Recordings' expeditions. Some are performed close to the original, others are changed dramatically.
The goal of this reconceptualization is not to give old songs a new life, to modernize, but to play them as we want. This brings Jrpjej closer to the masters of the past: most of the musicians whose recordings have become classics of traditional music have their recognizable style and unique sound. Magamet Khagauj, Aslanbek Chich, Khajdal Kunizhev, and other narrators of folk tales and instrumentalists of the 20th century did not reconstruct the songs of bygone antiquity, but each time created Circassian music based on tradition, aesthetics, and canons. A group that has just begun to discover its native music can not be put in one next to the famous djeguako, but the principle is the same.
The band’s main lineup made the album coherent, but the invited musicians diversified the release and added their touches.
Tamerlan Vasiliev from the first lineup of Jrpjej returned to help with the flute parts — kamyl, apapshina (Circassian dombra), and shichepshin (fiddle).
Aslan Tashu, who also has a solo project Azmetuko, not only sang along and played along in several songs but also soloed in "Karakamyl". His friend Dzhambulat Tlemshok, an aspiring journalist and beatmaker, helped with the background music in several songs.
Perhaps Jrpjej becomes not a group, but a community in which musicians experiment and make their own music, getting a place and means for creativity.
The concept of "Qorror" emerged gradually and evolved on its own. Thanks to Daiana Kulova’s joining the project, the group focused not only on the epic and heroic topics but also on traditional women's songs: humorous folk songs and lamentations.
When choosing the material, the decisive part wasn’t the narrative of a song, but the sound. As a result, there were 12 songs that prompted us to reflect on grief, joy, and overcoming traumas in Adyghe (Circassian) music.
The title song is “Taboo”, the lamentation of a girl who was abused by a group of riders, and the instigator was a guy who was brought up with her in the same family. For us, this is a symbol of the fact that in the traditional society (at least for the last hundred years), the reprehensible things were not swept under the carpet, but were communicated, also through songs.
The very name "Taboo” is difficult to translate unambiguously. In the collection of songs and tunes, they write that the taboo here is a request. But perhaps this is a derivative of the religious exclamation "tobe” (тобэ), which can be translated as "God". In any case, the Adyghe "taboo" is far from the generally accepted concept of the taboo, which is in its name. This is about the wordplay and additional meanings that Jrpjej and Ored bring to the album.
In the rest of the songs, the girls marry the unloved to prevent bloodshed, the beauties are killed at the festival by the recoil of a random shot, the storytellers curse the tsars, and the heroes of the War of independence die from wounds received in the battle for love. Ironically, the heroes of these songs are looking for a life partner, cause rain and meet mythical creatures.
Among the influences and references, we can name archival recordings, songs performed by Zaur Nagoyev, Zamudin Guchev and Zhyu ensemble, albums of the Horrible Room label, the latest records of the Indonesian project Senyawa and Irish band Lankum.
At the same time, even when Jrpjej absorbs someone else's style, they try to tell their own story.
Taboo is an attempt to end the worship of the past, stop Circassian cosplay and start creating something new.
Jrpjej:
Timur Kodzoko — guitar, shichepshin, bagpipes, vocals
Alan Sheugen — vocals, accordion
Diana Kulova — vocals, shichepshin, percussion
Session musicians:
Aslan Tashu — vocals, shichepshin, apapshin, kamyl
Tamerlan Vasiliev — shichepshin, kamyl, apapshin
Dzhambulat Tlemshok — vocals
Olga Lopina — percussion
1.01 - Jrpjej - Iэзэр къэкIуамэ умышын (5:41)
1.02 - Jrpjej - Сэрмахуэ (5:13)
1.03 - Jrpjej - Абихъан иорэд (4:05)
1.04 - Jrpjej - Тэбу (3:46)
1.05 - Jrpjej - Къэрэкъамыл (4:29)
1.06 - Jrpjej - Зазу дахэ (5:11)
1.07 - Jrpjej - Мэзгуащэ (4:27)
1.08 - Jrpjej - Абдзах нысэишэ (2:09)
1.09 - Jrpjej - Жан къыдэнэжам и уэрэд (6:11)
1.10 - Jrpjej - Шъыпкъишъ (3:04)
1.11 - Jrpjej - Къоджэ Бэрдыкъо Мыхьамэты игъыбз (6:05)
1.12 - Jrpjej - Елэ Елэ (7:27)
Since the release of the debut album, a lot of things have happened with Jrpjej. First, due to the pandemic we canceled the European tour. Then two members left the band, including the main vocalist Beabars Appesh. After the upheavals the quartet turned into a trio: the founder of the group Timur Kodzoko, the harmonica player Alan Shawdjan, who also took on all the male vocal parts, and the new vocalist Daiana Kulova.
Perhaps, the stress and new challenges allowed us to get together and find the right sound shortly. On the one hand, it continues the aesthetics of “Qorror”, and on the other, allows us to say something new.
Something new here is a more persistent commitment to the idea of “post-traditional music”. On “Taboo”, in addition to guitar and percussion, such atypical for Circassian music instruments as the cello and German bagpipes appeared.
The songs for the album are taken from archival recordings of the 20th century and from Ored Recordings' expeditions. Some are performed close to the original, others are changed dramatically.
The goal of this reconceptualization is not to give old songs a new life, to modernize, but to play them as we want. This brings Jrpjej closer to the masters of the past: most of the musicians whose recordings have become classics of traditional music have their recognizable style and unique sound. Magamet Khagauj, Aslanbek Chich, Khajdal Kunizhev, and other narrators of folk tales and instrumentalists of the 20th century did not reconstruct the songs of bygone antiquity, but each time created Circassian music based on tradition, aesthetics, and canons. A group that has just begun to discover its native music can not be put in one next to the famous djeguako, but the principle is the same.
The band’s main lineup made the album coherent, but the invited musicians diversified the release and added their touches.
Tamerlan Vasiliev from the first lineup of Jrpjej returned to help with the flute parts — kamyl, apapshina (Circassian dombra), and shichepshin (fiddle).
Aslan Tashu, who also has a solo project Azmetuko, not only sang along and played along in several songs but also soloed in "Karakamyl". His friend Dzhambulat Tlemshok, an aspiring journalist and beatmaker, helped with the background music in several songs.
Perhaps Jrpjej becomes not a group, but a community in which musicians experiment and make their own music, getting a place and means for creativity.
The concept of "Qorror" emerged gradually and evolved on its own. Thanks to Daiana Kulova’s joining the project, the group focused not only on the epic and heroic topics but also on traditional women's songs: humorous folk songs and lamentations.
When choosing the material, the decisive part wasn’t the narrative of a song, but the sound. As a result, there were 12 songs that prompted us to reflect on grief, joy, and overcoming traumas in Adyghe (Circassian) music.
The title song is “Taboo”, the lamentation of a girl who was abused by a group of riders, and the instigator was a guy who was brought up with her in the same family. For us, this is a symbol of the fact that in the traditional society (at least for the last hundred years), the reprehensible things were not swept under the carpet, but were communicated, also through songs.
The very name "Taboo” is difficult to translate unambiguously. In the collection of songs and tunes, they write that the taboo here is a request. But perhaps this is a derivative of the religious exclamation "tobe” (тобэ), which can be translated as "God". In any case, the Adyghe "taboo" is far from the generally accepted concept of the taboo, which is in its name. This is about the wordplay and additional meanings that Jrpjej and Ored bring to the album.
In the rest of the songs, the girls marry the unloved to prevent bloodshed, the beauties are killed at the festival by the recoil of a random shot, the storytellers curse the tsars, and the heroes of the War of independence die from wounds received in the battle for love. Ironically, the heroes of these songs are looking for a life partner, cause rain and meet mythical creatures.
Among the influences and references, we can name archival recordings, songs performed by Zaur Nagoyev, Zamudin Guchev and Zhyu ensemble, albums of the Horrible Room label, the latest records of the Indonesian project Senyawa and Irish band Lankum.
At the same time, even when Jrpjej absorbs someone else's style, they try to tell their own story.
Taboo is an attempt to end the worship of the past, stop Circassian cosplay and start creating something new.
Jrpjej:
Timur Kodzoko — guitar, shichepshin, bagpipes, vocals
Alan Sheugen — vocals, accordion
Diana Kulova — vocals, shichepshin, percussion
Session musicians:
Aslan Tashu — vocals, shichepshin, apapshin, kamyl
Tamerlan Vasiliev — shichepshin, kamyl, apapshin
Dzhambulat Tlemshok — vocals
Olga Lopina — percussion
1.01 - Jrpjej - Iэзэр къэкIуамэ умышын (5:41)
1.02 - Jrpjej - Сэрмахуэ (5:13)
1.03 - Jrpjej - Абихъан иорэд (4:05)
1.04 - Jrpjej - Тэбу (3:46)
1.05 - Jrpjej - Къэрэкъамыл (4:29)
1.06 - Jrpjej - Зазу дахэ (5:11)
1.07 - Jrpjej - Мэзгуащэ (4:27)
1.08 - Jrpjej - Абдзах нысэишэ (2:09)
1.09 - Jrpjej - Жан къыдэнэжам и уэрэд (6:11)
1.10 - Jrpjej - Шъыпкъишъ (3:04)
1.11 - Jrpjej - Къоджэ Бэрдыкъо Мыхьамэты игъыбз (6:05)
1.12 - Jrpjej - Елэ Елэ (7:27)
Year 2021 | World | Folk | Ethnic | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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