Release Date: 02 April 2021
Label: neRED music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0761856024816
Release Date: 02 April 2021
Label: neRED music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0761856024816
Description
Macedonian composer/multi-instrumentalist Dine Doneff (or Kostas Theodorou, his Greek citizenship name) presents his Balkan-jazz-folk-opera 'Rousilvo' and the first release on neRED music in cooperation with ECM Records.
Heavily influenced by the culture of his homeland, Doneff, creates a musical fabric through open dialogue among the members of a septet. A polyphony of seven women's voices, interspersed with extracts from numerous authentic field recordings, complete a narration of expanding rhythmic and melodic forms.
Rousilvo is the old, Slavic name of the village of Xanthogeia, in north-western Greece. The village's name, and its Slav-Macedonian speaking community, fell victim to the policy of the Greek state to forcibly "Hellenize" the land and its people. At the end of the Greek Civil War (1946-49) most of the women in the village were left alone for the rest of their lives; their husbands either killed or exiled. Since 1986 the village has been uninhabited as a result of long-lasting social marginalization.
Ten compositions, alternating with location recordings of the surviving elderly residents of the village (sometimes singing, at times narrating their stories) salvaging and transforming a treasure trove, an elegy, of a vanishing poetry.
Tracklisting
Dine Doneff
Dine Roneff
Horst Wolf
Sophie Gordeladze, Hector Sandoval, Luca Grassi, Martin Piskorski, Rory Dunne, Cappella Aquileia, T
Tina Gorina; Vivica Genaux; Giulio Pelligra; German Olvera; Riccardo Novaro; Ugo Guagliardo; Pawel
Marta Torbidoni; David Astorga; German Olvera; Aleksey Bogdanov; Matheus Pompeu; Paulina Boreczko;
Anita Cerquetti
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor & Orch, Keilberth
Marina Rebeka, Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, John Fiore
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Amarilli Nizza, Fabuo Armiliato, Massimiliano Fichera,