Kazan - Ružo (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Kazan
- Title: Ružo
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Geenger Records
- Genre: World; Folk
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 41:31
- Total Size: 232 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Based on his study of birdcalls, Darwin came to believe that love songs, no less than love itself, were essential to human propagation. Opting for science over criticism, however, he never weighed in on one conundrum: Whether a romantic ballad is beautiful or tedious often has little or no bearing on its success in courtship. A case in point is Ružo (Rose), the debut album of the Croatian ensemble Kazan. Their traditional love songs in retro-modern garb are uniformly enchanting—a tribute, if you will, to the evolutionary chain—even though some tell stories of loss and doom. Led by Dunja Bahtijarević’s luxurious, crystalline voice and backed by flute, violin and guitars that often circle each other as playfully or unavailingly as lovers, the album roams the western Balkans with songs in Serbo-Croatian dialects (from Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia) and in Macedonian. In Ravno polje (Open Field), there’s an exquisite ache in a young woman’s entreaties to her sweetheart: “I hurl myself after him, offering apples, and he won’t even throw stones at me” (video 1). The accelerating pace of Javor (Maple Tree) animates a ballad of fidelity and secrecy (video 2); while a Balkan-noir flourish announces Dunajski Most (The Danube Bridge), a tale of love and death (video 3). Badem (Almond Tree) depends on folk-rock energy and rakija, a potent fruit brandy, to close the curtain on its romantic tableau (video 4). Kazan’s acute attention to blending cultures, tempos, eras and states of desire is reflected in its name, referring to a metal cooking pot, common from southeastern Europe to Central Asia, suited to mixing ingredients. At turns joyful and melancholy, scenic and metaphoric, bittersweet and fatal, the band’s recipes fit many descriptions—including Darwinian. Choosing music over science, Kazan delivers the same all-embracing message: We love, therefore we are. (Geenger Records)
Kazan: Ružo
Dunja Bahtijarević: voice
Tatjana Bijelić: flute
Lucija Stanojević: violin
Danijel Maoduš: guitar
Zvonimir Mikulandra: guitar
Sebastian Jurić: bass guitar
Marko Šturman: percussion
Tracklist:
01. Kazan - Gondže ružo (5:07)
02. Kazan - Da bin znala (4:07)
03. Kazan - Dunajski most (4:41)
04. Kazan - Sivi soko (5:13)
05. Kazan - Moma Katerina (3:14)
06. Kazan - Javor (5:10)
07. Kazan - Badem (5:04)
08. Kazan - Leno (4:31)
09. Kazan - Ravno polje (4:25)
Kazan: Ružo
Dunja Bahtijarević: voice
Tatjana Bijelić: flute
Lucija Stanojević: violin
Danijel Maoduš: guitar
Zvonimir Mikulandra: guitar
Sebastian Jurić: bass guitar
Marko Šturman: percussion
Tracklist:
01. Kazan - Gondže ružo (5:07)
02. Kazan - Da bin znala (4:07)
03. Kazan - Dunajski most (4:41)
04. Kazan - Sivi soko (5:13)
05. Kazan - Moma Katerina (3:14)
06. Kazan - Javor (5:10)
07. Kazan - Badem (5:04)
08. Kazan - Leno (4:31)
09. Kazan - Ravno polje (4:25)
Year 2018 | World | Folk | FLAC / APE
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