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Rousilvo

Dine Roneff

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Format: CD

Cat No: NERED1

Release Date:  02 April 2021

Label:  neRED music

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  0761856024816

Genres:  Jazz  Opera  

  • 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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Narrative
      • 2. Penelopes Of Xanthogeia
      • 3. Oblivion
      • 4. Mirka
      • 5. Natsko
      • 6. Requiem
      • 7. Ajde Sl'intse Zajdi
      • 8. Apatris
      • 9. Kaimaktsalan
      • 10. Implacable Grief
      • 11. Song Of The Unquietness
      • 12. As A Story