Suncokret

It's a bit quiet here. Let's light a candle and listen to some Folk pop from Yugoslavia.

Eastern European fairytale soundscape

A collage I made from soundbits of eastern european fairy tale records without understanding any of the languages but loving the sound. 


Previously: Pohádky na deskách Supraphon

Zdravi ljudi za razonodu

"Zdravi ljudi za razonodu"("Healthy People For Fun" or "The Litany of the Healthy People") by Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia 1971, portrays the peoples living in the multicultural Yugoslavian province Vojvodina (today part of Serbia).
"Nations and ethnic groups in the province of Vojvodina live in harmonious coexistence. However, members of the same ethnic groups paint facades of their houses the same color -- Croats red, Hungarians green, and Slovaks blue... The film delighted audiences at the premiere and won an award at the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, but it was soon banned because of alleged subversive elements." (Motovun Film Festival).
I saw this amazing film in the cinema last night, in a programme compiled by Aleksandra Domanovic, in the context of her fantastic exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel. I featured her own work previously on this blog here.

TV ident month: Aleksandra Domanović's Yugoslavian news idents project

In her project 19:30, Yugoslavian born artist Aleksandra Domanović explores the history of the TV news of the geographic region of ex-Yugoslavia. It includes an anthology of ident music, remixes, a video and a series of parties.
Aleksandra Domanović, who grew up in Slovenia, draws on her experience of wartime Yugoslavia when everyone throughout the entire country would gather at 19.30 in front of the TV to watch the main news and check out the latest developments. The music that once announced the news today triggers memories of that period. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the former regional channels became the national channels of the new nation states. Their signature tunes often contain martial or nationalist elements.
In the aftermath of war, techno parties offered people a chance to dance and leave nationalism behind them. In remixes, parties and a video, Domanović mixes and explores these connotations of TV news  and post-war Techno culture.

Here are some of my favorites from her collection:

1980's Zrcalo Tedna (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

 undated Intro (Serbia)

1975 or 1978 (Macedonia)


And my own remix of Macedonia's clock music from 1982:

Pre-news lullaby for the children of Skopje (modernist part) by And Me