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- artist:Tamara Obrovac
- featured artist:Epoque string quartet
- region:Mediterranean
- release year:2011
- style(s):Jazz, Crossover
- country:Croatia
- formats:CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Tamara Obrovac
- label:Aquarius records
- publisher:IDM Music, Bixio Music Group & Association
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"Musical Document from Eternity of Universe:
The songs on this album are complex, but in Tamara's interpretation they seem a piece of cake – they sound flippant, dancing, as if that very combination of words and music was recorded in the eternity of the universe, just waiting for someone to translate it into the language of us mere mortals.
Although the music on Tamara's seventh album will thrill you right from the very first hearing, its true value, like the value of the most valuable achievements of the world art, will be disclosed only when you hear it again and again, and you will simply keep listening to it time after time because every new listening will reveal some new filigree details, new sounds, new discreet interactions, new emotions, new refinement, new charm...
In the interpretations included in this album, Tamara artlessly and logically unites a serious approach and joke, tradition and modernity, classical music and ethno, formal demands and freedom, melody and improvisation, regional and middle-European."
(Davor Hrvoj)
*madirosa - an invented word, for the author it means a Mediterranean rose, representing her personal experience of the Mediterranean as a cultural and musical universe
Press quote:
"With her brilliant performance in the Euphrasian Basilica in the historic old city of Poreč, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, she has presented the best of the Mediterranean; the melancholy of fado, the lightness of tarantella and the lyrics in Croatian have melted with the fury of the accordion player Fausto Beccalossi so organically that the following concert of Richard Galliano Piazzolla Forever Septet seemed nothing but perfectly boring." (Josef Engels, Jazzthing, September 2011. - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble & epoque string quartet, concert at Valamar Jazz Festival 2011.)
BAND
Tamara Obrovac Transhistria ensemble:
Tamara Obrovac - voice, composer (HR)
Uroš Rakovec - guitar, mandolin (SLO)
Žiga Golob - double bass (SLO)
Fausto Beccalossi - accordion (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić - drums (HR)
époque string quartet:
David Pokorny - violin (CZ)
Vladimír Klánský - violin (CZ)
Víd Petrášek - cello (CZ)
Vladimír Kroupa - viola (CZ)
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