Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Harmony of Dissonance: Traces of Croatian Traditional Singing (2019)
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HARMONY OF DISSONANCE brings together, juxtaposes, and intertwines the disparate singing styles of the regions of Dalmatia, which remain stylistically and performatively distant even today. While these musical worlds present seemingly irreconcilable musical and cultural differences, they are all connected by polyphonic singing, which forms the core of this collaboration between the Harmonija Dissonance Ensemble and the Jazz Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb.
The Harmonija Dissonance Ensemble turned to their experiences with renowned traditional singers as well as to ethnomusicological field recordings of the songs that are included on the album. The process of music making in the Ensemble is firmly grounded in the act of concentrated listening, guided by the goal of coming ever closer to the sound ideal of archaic traditional harmony. The Ensemble first performed this representative program of traditional singing in Zagreb in May 2017. The songs are musically intriguing and performatively challenging, reflecting both local specificities and the heterogeneity of expressions, styles, and genres. An initial recording of this performance then became the inspiration for composer Zoran Ščekić, who has “translated” ten of the songs into a series of instrumental miniatures which are woven throughout the album, performed by the Jazz Orchestra of the Academy of Music.
On HARMONY OF DISSONANCE, the polyphonic singing of traditional songs from disparate areas of Dalmatia is given a second life in new and different interpretations which, while significantly distant from their original performance contexts, remain stylistically and melodically close to their source. These experiments with tradition, colored by the artistic expression of the latest generation of academic musicians, can present one possible answer to the question of what might happen on a contemporary journey in search of “the traces of traditional singing.”
Tracklist:
1. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Ispod panja javorova / Izvir voda izvirala (02:51)
2. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – U jablana duga grana (1) (02:23)
3. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Slavuj piva, daleko se čuje (01:59)
4. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Procvitala kitica fiole (02:23)
5. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Daj mi, majko, dinar-dva (1) (02:53)
6. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Ej, da je dragi doći mojon kući (00:21)
7. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Moj je dragi daleko dabome (00:51)
8. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Oj, Gospe Sinjska (00:20)
9. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Pjevala bi ‘ko i cure dvije (00:50)
10. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Moj je dragi daleko dabome (02:48)
11. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Daj mi, majko, dinar-dva (2) (00:35)
12. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Sve se more u valove dalo (03:58)
13. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Bukovico, moj debeli lade (01:57)
14. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Evo iđem sa Zvirića (01:46)
15. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Šenice bilice (02:57)
16. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Izvir voda izvirala (02:22)
17. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – U jablana duga grana (2) (04:50)
18. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Ko se, nano (02:13)
19. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Berem dunje, al’ ne lomim grane (01:13)
20. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Milo ti me (00:28)
21. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Dođi, dragi, dođi, janje moje (01:11)
22. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Ko bi reka (00:41)
23. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Ovamo dojdi, sokole (01:51)
24. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Na Neretvu misečina pala (05:55)
25. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Zapjevaj mi, jaranice moja (1) (02:00)
26. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Zapjevaj mi, jaranice moja (2) (05:23)
27. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Mesliđane, ‘ko ti bere grane (02:40)
28. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – U jablana visokoga (01:49)
29. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Dođi, dragi, kad čobana ima (1) (03:04)
30. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Dođi, dragi, kad čobana ima (2) (04:39)
31. Zagreb Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra, Harmonija Disonance Ensemble – Moj dragane, izvore od Drine (03:54)
