1 	Jalija 	1:14
2 	Christian Letter 	3:11
3 	Pero 	3:51
4 	Duj Duj 	3:57
5 	Baila Leila 	4:38
6 	Muslim Letter 	4:51
7 	SOS 	4:11
8 	Vino Tinto 	3:44
9 	Jewish Letter 	3:08
10 	Mazel Tov 	3:18
11 	Made In Bosnia 	2:54

Goran Bregovic - Arranger, Composer, Primary Artist
Stojan Dimov - Clarinet, Saxophone 
Milos Mihajlovic - Baritone, Tuba 
Aco Rajković - Baritone
Daniela Ratkova-Aleksandrova - 	Voices
Ludmila Ratkova-Trajkova - Voices
Muharem Redzepi - Traditional Drumming, Voices 
Bokan Stankovic - Trumpet 
Dragic Velicković - Trumpet 

Goran Bregović is one of the Balkans' most beloved musicians and composers. He grew up in the Bosnian town of Sarajevo and witnessed the atrocities of war in the 1990s. But he channeled his home region's pain, as well as its endless humor, into his music, and got his big break composing for films like Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies.

Bregović's latest project, Three Letters from Sarajevo, is an album anchored by three pieces for violin and orchestra, written as a metaphor for the three religions coexisting in Sarajevo: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. As Bregović explains, the different types of music are meant to illustrate tumultuous times we live in — times where "today we are good neighbors and tomorrow we can shoot each other just because we are from different religion[s]. ... I like to understand music as a conversation," he says. "Music is language."

The album features voices from all over the world — from latin pop singer Bebe to Israeli folk rocker Asaf Avidan. Bregović joined NPR's Ari Shapiro to talk about it; hear their conversation at the audio link. ---npr.org

Goran Bregović has done it all. A rock star in the former Yugoslavia, he went on write film scores and ride the fashion for brassy Balkan Gypsy music, selling over 6m albums and collaborating with everyone from Iggy Pop to the Gipsy Kings. Now he celebrates the history of his birthplace Sarajevo, a meeting place for Christians, Muslims and Jews before the Balkan war, with a wildly varied set. There are instrumental pieces honouring the three religions, each dominated by a different violinist, and including powerful atmospheric work from Tunisia’s Zied Zouari. They would work well as a documentary soundtrack. And then there are songs, many of which develop into a brassy knees-up. The cast includes the cool and dramatic Spanish singer Bebe, the Israeli folk-rocker Asaf Avidan, and – best of all – the exuberant Algerian rai-punk rocker Rachid Taha. Patchy, maybe, but often enormous fun. ---Robin Denselow, theguardian.com

Pochodzący z Sarajewa muzyk, stworzył album zainspirowany swoim miastem – jego historią, zróżnicowaniem etnicznym, religijnym i całą masą paradoksów. Miastem, które jest nazywane „Jeruzalem Bałkanów”. Na Three Letters from Sarajevo, Bregović połączył muzykę 3 różnych religii przy udziale swojej ukochanej Weddings and Funerals Orchestra. Jednocześnie zaprosił też do współpracy orkiestrę symfoniczną, która pojawia się w trzech instrumentalnych utworach z trzema rożnymi solo na skrzypcach (wschodnim, klezmerskim oraz klasycznym zachodnim), a także troje wokalistów - Rachida Taha, Riffa Cohena oraz doskonale znanego polskiej publiczności Asafa Avidana oraz Bebe.

Bregović jest bez wątpienia jednym z nielicznych artystów, którym udało się połączyć w swojej twórczości tak szerokie spektrum stylów i technik nie tracąc przy tym swojej własnej tożsamości. Najnowszą płytą Three Letters from Sarajevo udowadnia, że muzyka może obalić wszystkie mury i przekroczyć każdą granicę. ---rmfclassic.pl

download (mp3 @320 kbs):

yandex mediafire ulozto cloudmailru gett

back

1. Jeremija
2. Paradehtika
3. Venzinatiko
4. Na zadnjem sjedistu moga auta
5. Zamisli
6. Soferska
7. Gas Gas (Shantel vs. Bregovic)
8. Ruzica
9. Za Esmu
10. Napile se ulice
11. Kerna mas
12. Na 'tan Ixara Olikopedo
13. Tis Agap is Sou To Risko
14. Sakrivena Pesma

Bass – Dejan Manigodić
Guitar, Vocals – Goran Bregović
Saxophone – Stojan Dimov
Trombone [Bariton] – Aleksandar Rajković, Miloš Mihajlović
Trumpet – Bokan Stanković, Dalibor Lukić
Vocals – Daniela Ratkova, Ljudmila Ratkova
Vocals, Percussion – Alen Ademović 

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the late '80s and early '90s gave American world music enthusiasts the chance to hear a lot of Polish, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, and Bulgarian artists they hadn't been exposed to previously. Nonetheless, there are some Eastern European artists who -- despite doing a good job marketing themselves at home -- remained underexposed in the United States long after communism's demise. One of them is Serbian-Croatian guitarist, singer, composer, and bandleader Goran Bregovic, but hopefully, his 2009 release Alkohol will make him better known in North America. Bregovic has been part of the former Yugoslavia's music scene since the days of communism, and Alkohol is clearly the work of a seasoned bandleader. Recorded live in Belgrade, Guca, and Skopje in 2007, Alkohol has some rock influence and some electric guitar but nonetheless demonstrates that Bregovic's Eastern European roots run deep. Picture a brass band that has a Balkan Gypsy orientation and is both rootsy and modern by 2007 standards; that is the type of approach that Bregovic favors on these inspired performances. There are parallels between Bregovic's music and Jewish klezmer as well as parallels between Bregovic's music and Middle Eastern music; Bregovic's band has clearly mastered the art of modal/scalar playing, which is something one finds all over the Middle East, India, and Arabic North Africa. But at the end of the day, Bregovic's use of modality is very much a reflection of his Serbian-Croatian heritage -- and listeners who are seriously into world music will realize that this is an Eastern European modality rather than a Middle Eastern or North African modality. For North Americans, Alkohol is an engaging introduction to Bregovic's work. ---Alex Henderson, AllMusic Review

O idei tego albumu i procesie twórczym tak opowiadał sam Goran Bregovic: "Moja nowa płyta była nagrywana na żywo i została podzielona na dwie części: pierwsza z nich 'Sljivovica' nazwana tak od naszej narodowej, śliwkowej brandy, została nagrana w Grucy latem 2007 roku. Gruca to niewielkie miasteczko, gdzie co roku odbywają się konkursy orkiestr dętych gromadzące ponad 150 tysięcy ludzi, którzy bawią się przez trzy dni... Piosenki nagrane w Grucy nie były wcześniej publikowane a przeznaczone są do słuchania w akompaniamencie mocnych drinków... Druga część - "Champagne" jest bardziej różnorodna, w jej nagraniu wzięła udział orkiestra dęta, skrzypaczki, chór męski i orkiestra kameralna. Gra na skrzypcach ma tutaj różny charakter: klasyczny, klezmerski czy orientalny. Można się nią cieszyć przy lżejszych alkoholach. Mam nadzieję, że ktokolwiek będzie słuchał tego albumu, będzie czerpał z niego tyle radości, ile ja sam podczas jego nagrywania". ---muzyka.interia.pl

download (mp3 @320 kbs):

yandex mediafire uloz.to gett

back