Matanë Malit

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All Music Guide - Rick Anderson
Female singer plus piano trio equals jazz album, right? Wrong. Elina Duni's debut album is a tribute to her Albanian heritage, and while there are elements of jazz in the arrangements (and certainly in the instrumentation), there's little to nothing jazzy about her singing or about the songs. These are Balkan folk songs, some of them light in tone and content and others exploring and elucidating the deep cultural ruptures that have characterized the region's history for centuries: topics include exile, sheepherding, political resistance, romantic love, and labor. But unless you either speak Albanian or follow along with the translations in the liner notes, you'll have to ...
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All Music Guide - Rick Anderson
Female singer plus piano trio equals jazz album, right? Wrong. Elina Duni's debut album is a tribute to her Albanian heritage, and while there are elements of jazz in the arrangements (and certainly in the instrumentation), there's little to nothing jazzy about her singing or about the songs. These are Balkan folk songs, some of them light in tone and content and others exploring and elucidating the deep cultural ruptures that have characterized the region's history for centuries: topics include exile, sheepherding, political resistance, romantic love, and labor. But unless you either speak Albanian or follow along with the translations in the liner notes, you'll have to divine these subtleties from the music itself -- and luckily, Duni is the kind of singer who can communicate an awful lot of subtlety with just a gentle change of dynamics or a shift in timbre. She sings with almost no vibrato and a minimum of ornamentation, her voice ringing out like a glass bell pitched in the alto range. Then there are the time signatures, which you may not notice unless you're trying to dance: "Kur Të Kujtosh," for example, seems to be written in 11/8. Although tempos vary somewhat and instrumental textures do as well, it's hard to identify highlights on this remarkable album -- all of the tracks share a similar feeling of haunting regret, and all of them are deeply beautiful. This is one of those very rare albums that doesn't insist on your undivided attention, but rewards it richly anyway.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/16/2012
  • Label: Ecm Records
  • UPC: 602537064571
  • Catalog Number: 001752002
  • Sales rank: 25,956

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Ka një mot (5:11)
  2. 2 Kjani trima (4:06)
  3. 3 Kur të kujtosh (4:06)
  4. 4 Valzë e Valëve (5:29)
  5. 5 Unë ty moj (3:55)
  6. 6 Erë pranverore (3:34)
  7. 7 Çelo Menzani (5:41)
  8. 8 Ra kambana (4:15)
  9. 9 Çobankat (5:14)
  10. 10 Kristal (4:52)
  11. 11 U rrit vasha (3:24)
  12. 12 Mine Peza (3:56)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Elina Duni Quartet Primary Artist
Elina Duni Indexed Contributor, Vocals
Norbert Pfammatter Drums
Colin Vallon Piano
Patrice Moret Double Bass
Technical Credits
Manfred Eicher Producer
Traditional Composer
Nicolas Baillard Engineer
Gérard De Haro Engineer
Elina Duni Composer, Liner Notes
Tish Daija Composer
Ismail Kadaré Composer
Neço Muko Composer
Muharrem Gurra Composer
Llazar Siliqi Composer
Bessa Myftiu Composer
Elina Duni Quartet Arranger
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