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Compilation Series
(Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey)
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In GeneralThis series of initially four CDs provides us with new windows onto the music of our neighbours to the east. No mere rehashing of balalaika and other clichés, it tunes us into a wide range of temperaments and brings us closer to little-known musical cultures of the eastern world. Old melodies and new songs, all of them interpreted by outstanding musicians from the respective countries.
A conscious decision has been made here to avoid the run-of-the-mill "Best Of" assortment in which the same artists appear again and again. The four compilations are not intended to be representative, but were put together entirely subjectively according to our own taste. A different mood prevails on each of the four CDs.
From Russia we hear a hint of melancholy in music which moves us to the core. Bulgaria stands for outstanding and unusual choral works. Poland is deeply rooted in its rural traditions of folklore and Klezmer. And Turkey draws from the old musical collections of the Osmanic period, while also presenting us with elements astonishing and new.
The music in the four compilations is played exclusively by musicians who have performed in concert all over the world.
As in two hundred other JARO productions, here you will find the extraordinary, chosen with care.
The slogan for the series could well read "Go East."
Journey with us to the soul of the music from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria and Turkey!
Following JARO musicians are at the compilation series:
MOSCOW ART TRIO
MIKHAIL ALPERIN and his MOSCOW ART TRIO base their work on jazz, integrating folk motifs in a manner both genuine and playful, constructively and confidently expanding musical language to inaugurate a new category somewhere between jazz, free improvisation and the chamber music avantgarde.
When ALPERIN founded the trio in 1990 as a fixed constellation he conciously chose musicians with differing musical backgrounds: While ALPERIN regards himself as a jazz musician, Arkady Shilkloper, a former member of the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra, has a classical background; Sergey Starostin's inclination for and exhaustive study of traditional music makes him a specialist in that area. The poetic jazz of MIKHAIL ALPERIN'S MOSCOW ART TRIO picks up Moldavian, Georgian and Russian themes, playfully mixing their ritual character — now strongly rhythmical, now pronouncedly meditative — with spirited flights. Boogie-woogie figures may flash up in the distance, but the sounds are always borne by the cheeky freedom of the avant-garde and always ready to try out something new: Repetitions, wild outbreaks, moments of stillness and pretty melodies discover common ground in this music.
CDs:
FOLK DREAMS - JARO 4187-2
PRAYER - JARO 4193-2
HAMBURG CONCERT - JARO 4201-2
MUSIC - JARO 4214-2
ONCE UPON A TIME - JARO 4238-2
FARLANDERS
The bass player's grandiose performance is the constantly pulsating core of this ensemble. Kalachev connects the singer's beguiling voice with the occasionally Celtic-like sounds of the reed instruments – bagpipes, clarinets and various flutes – and the multifaceted, rocky percussion. In the folk song arrangements and compositions by Zhelannaya and Kalachev, a delicate, sometimes even playful balance between the traditional and the modern is always perceivable. This makes the music of the FARLANDERS an original and refreshing experience – far beyond folk music pepped up with pop ingredients.
THE FARLANDER - JARO 4222-2
Moments - Live in Germany - JARO 4230-2
SERGEY STAROSTIN'S VOCAL FAMILY
SERGEY STAROSTIN was born on January 1, 1956 in Moscow into a musical family from the south. His father was a good singer and harp player wheras his grandmother was the one to introduce him to Russian folk tales and songs. He received his first musical education in a boy's choir before studying clarinet at the Moscow Conservatory.
Quite early on he was interested in Russian folklore, particularly the rich traditions of Russian folk music, which he began to collect and study during travels. Since 1982 he has given seminars and performed as a vocalist and player of traditional wind instruments. In 1987 he started his own radio programme in the Russian broadcasting system introducing listeners to traditional music, and beginning in 1991 he directed a television programme on folk music in Moscow. As author and producer STAROSTIN realised the "World Village Show," a programme on world music for Russian television. Through his affinity to Russian music and the music of the Lapps, he became acquainted with Mary Boine with whom he has made recordings in Moscow and Oslo. In 1991 SERGEY STAROSTIN joined the Alperin/Shilkloper Duo to form the MOSCOW ART TRIO with which he has performed in Europe, USA, Africa and Japan as a singer and instrumentalist.
In Scottish Edinburgh, the grandiose singer made this impressive recording with four highly unusual femal voices, using no instrumental accompaniment whatsover. JOURNEY (JARO 4226-2) is sound healing for overburdened, overworked minds - in other words, for almost all of us.
MIKHAIL ALPERIN
MIKHAIL ALPERIN's contribution to contemporary music is not only the unbiased integration of the most various peoples' musical traditions and the crossing of stylistic boundaries: Free of care, he also fuses music of the past with contemporary elements.
BLUE FJORD - JARO 4249-2
PORTRAIT - JARO 4227-2
PRAYER - JARO 4193-2
FOLK DREAMS - JARO 4187-2
WARSAW VILLAGE BAND
The success of the WARSAW VILLAGE BAND stems from its musicians' great love for their national musical heritage and their will to preserve the old musical traditions. For these musicians, however, preservation does not mean restoration but – as we have experienced with 'The Pogues' or 'Les Negresses Vertes', for example – reanimation, i. e. the transportation of the old songs’ spirit into the here and now. Polka gets a shot of Techno, and despite the acoustic instrumentalisation, the band conjures up sounds that have electronic impact.
UPROOTING - JARO 4261-2
PEOPLE'S SPRING - JARO 4247-2
HOPSASA - JARO 4265-2
KAPELA ZE WSI WARSAWA (earlier than ... WARSAW VILLAGE BAND)
They play just as they feel - soundly and happily. In their music there is everything - joy and musing, everyday work, smell of fresh clover, taste of spring water and the most joyful and cleanest youth.
HOPSASA - JARO 4265-2
THE BULGARIAN VOICES - ANGELITE
Europe's most fascinating choir music, ranging from folk tradition to contemporary music. These phenomenal Bulgarian voices first performed, an unprecedented career took them around the world.
ANGELS' CHRISTMAS - JARO 4252-2
BALKAN PASSION - JARO 4234-2
MERCY FOR THE LIVING - JARO 4220-2
MOUNTAIN TALE - JARO 4212-2
FLY FLY MY SADNESS - JARO 4197-2
LALE LI SI - JARO 4178-2
MELODY RHYTHM & HARMONY - JARO 1993-2
FROM BULGARIA WITH LOVE - JARO 4165-2
A CATHEDRAL CONCERT - JARO 4138-2
SARBAND
SARBAND is a unique ensemble, assimilating the stimuli of different musical cultures into its performances. The repertoire encompasses not only medieval music from the Orient and Occident, but also staged productions of Baroque and contemporary music.
PILGRIMS OF THE SOUL - JARO 4248-2
ALLA TURCA - ORIENTAL OBSESSION - JARO 4237-2
DANSE GOTHIQUE - JARO 4229-2
FALLEN WOMEN - JARO 4210-2
SEPHARDIC SONGS - IN THE HISPANO-ARABIC TRADITION OF MEDIVAL SPAIN - JARO 4206-2
LLIBRE VERMELL DE MONTSERRAT - JARO 4171-2
MUSIC OF THE EMPERORS / MUSIK DER KÖNIGE - JARO 4156-2
CANTICO - JARO 4151-2
OKAY TEMIZ
Temiz regarded himself as an "international" - what today would be called a world musician - and succeeded in bringing together widely differing musical influences.
KARSILAMA - JARO 4224-2
MAGNETIC ORIENT - JARO 4244-2
LIFE ROAD (with ORIENTAL WIND) - JARO 4113-2
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CDs:
Polish Spirit - 2005
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Russian Soul - 2005
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Bulgarian Passion - 2005
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Turkish Obsession - 2005
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Go East Compilation Series - 2006
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