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Altur Mur
Mimika Orchestra
Label: Rika Muzika / Menart Label
Released: 2022
Duration: 01:11:34
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Tracks
1. Tuota Nuester 2. Fondo 3. Amuar 4. Brindiž 5. A Luntun 6. U Slast 7. Minotaur 8. Thalassa
Personnel
Mimika Orchestra
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Maja Rivić - vocals Marta Kolega - vocals, lyrics Dunja Bahtijarević - vocals Nika Bauman - flute Jelene Ilčić - oboe Leo Beslać - flute, synths, vocals Marko Lucijan Hraščanec - alto sax, soprano sax Vojkan Jocić - tenor sax Marko Gudelj - baritone sax Zvonimir Bajević - trumpet Valdemar Kušan - trumpet Luka Žužić - trombone Jurica Rukljić - valve trombone, tuba w/ effects Joe Kaplowitz - tuba Josip Šustić - classical guitar, electric guitar Viktor Slamnig - electric bass Nenad Kovačić - percussion Mario Petrinjak - drums Mak Murtić - directing, sopila (traditional Croatian instrument), compositions Tomaž Zevnik - clarinet (guest on Brindiž) Aleksandar Jovevski - Macedonian kaval (guest on Minotaur) Katarina Novčić - vocals (guest on Tuota Nuester)
Album Description
Mimika orchestra released its fourth studio album "Altur Mur" ("The altar of the sea" on the extinct Velotic language of thte island Krk). Twenty two musicians participated in making the album lead by the multi-instrumentalist and composer Mak Murtić. With this album, Mimika orchestra, a world jazz crossover concept orchestra founded by Maja Rivić and Mak Murtić 12 years ago in London takes you on a journey into the lost soul of the Mediterranean. Dive into the mystical fog carried by "with those assymetric Balkan rhythms and wall of brass" (Musicdeli) and have courage to evoke the feelings of love, death and existence captured in the passing of time. The author, Mak Murtić says that the album is a vision of an non-existent place in the Mediterranean, where cultural and personal reinvention overlap. Mak Murtić started to research mediterranean rhythms, melodic patterns and languages three years ago while living on the island Krk and the research and interest was a foundation for the orchestral suite. The lyrics were written by Marta Kolega in collaboration with Murtić from the research into Mediterranean's cultural entaglement all the way to the themes of poetry of love, death and existence: "The creation of the texts and lyrics for "Altur Mur" was a journey across the islands of the Adriatic sea, their atmospheres, the way people interact, the languages, the lifestyles and the worldviews of their inhabitants. I collected phrases that have a strong sound, an unusual picture, an unexpected beauty and I put them together so they tell a story about a lost soul, an individual who tries to find their way in this world, a story that echoes that of the Odysseus and carries the same salty scent of the sea and the halting feeling that you do not know exactly where you are going to" says Marta Kolega. Mimika orchestra's second single from the album is Thalassa (eng. The Sea), a song about an eery drowning of a body of a former lover into the depths of the sea of memories and through it the album escapes the vision of the endless feast that governs the protagonists of the suite. The album thus finishes with a song which carries a mythical force (the sea, the tides) which moves a tiny swimmer who then fully surrenders to it.
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