Markelian Kapedani - Balkan Plan

I think the other major cell propulsion of jazz in Europe than in the Scandinavian and Balkan precisely that. I already 'spoken previously of the Balkan plan, by listening to BojanZ talent and rising star of European pianism. A few days ago, I came across the pianism of Markelian Kapedani, chance encounter at pisa book festival is sponsoring Red Records, presented by the hard disk type to stand as she latin ... (I would defer on this thing), but I had heard 3 notes I was presented as a pianist and Latin, and I recognized the smell of the earth Balkans, the smell of Bulgaria, the typical construction of rhythmic Balkan folklore, precisely that atmosphere already 'discovered by the pianism of BojanZ (I remain somewhat' affected adversely by that is not mentioned at all in the liner notes and is unknown to the seller of the red, as the comparison with SoloObsession and 'immediate and natural).
Albanian pianist, different from the views of the Balkan Slavic BojanZ, given that you meet in the middle 'road in the musical tradition that pervades Eastern Europe, Bulgarian folk music, zinegara, Balkan and European classical tradition. And there are cells of contamination in this Spanish and flamenco music, you can also hear echoes of the music of Albeniz. In this disc, and 'different, it feels much less the American soul, and if you BojanZ' format in America with Claire Fischer and maintained throughout the semantics that love for the music with jazz piano Evansiano that all we Europeans DNA, the pianism of Kapedani and 'certainly more' pristine and rooted in European tradition and is not immediately obvious references to the semantics jazz
The ambiance is wonderful, dreamlike, as only the Balkan tunes can be, that sense of European blues and 'always so' evident in the traditional Balkan music, the repetitiveness' typical serial of popular music and the modal refinement.
A disc really beautiful, filled with a great love for the folk tradition and made a piano is not measured muscle, which can make the piano sing, making it perfect tool for evoking melodies that seem so 'far from the sounds' piano.

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On Air: Markelian Kapedani - Balkan Blue

Ausencia

Ausencia (Goran Bregovic)

Ausencia, Ausencia
It asa um tivesse
Voa pa na they distancia
It was um um Gazela
Pa always runs nem um cansera

Anton ja na bo seio
Um ba tava heats
And nunca mas Ausencia
Ta ser nos lema

But I know na mind!
Um viajà ta medo sem
Nha Liberdade um tê'l
And I know na nha sonho

Na nha sonho miéforte
Um tem bô proteçäo
Um tem Sô bô Carinho
And smile bô

To solidäo tô'me
Sima G sozim na céu
Sô brilhà but ta ta Cega
NA if claräo
Sem sabe pa order lumia
Pa wave bai
Um is to solidäo sina

Ausencia, Ausencia

(On Air Ausencia Goran Bregovic & Cesaria Evora)