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21.06.2009
Presenting Špic-Cvak!
30.05.2009
Summer tour
23.10.2008
Katalena plays in Cvetličarna
22.05.2008
Cvik cvak! has been released
07.05.2008
Cvik cvak!
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Presenting Špic-Cvak!
21.06.2009
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Ballet dance to Katalena music will took place in Ljubljana, Cankarjev dom, on October 12th at 20.00h!
Špic-Cvak!
Katalena, Edward Clug, Valentina Turcu and the dancers of The Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor Ballet Company
A meeting of the folk and the contrived, ancient and modern, simple and sophisticated
It is the contrasts between Katalena and the ballet and choreographic team Valentina Turcu and Edward Clug that inspire the musical and dance performance Špic-cvak!. On stage folk simplicity intertwines with the sophistication of the ballet movement, the hardness of a guitar riff mixes with the softness of a plié – in like manner the old folk songs find expression in new visual and representational worlds. The modern kolednik, traditionally a folk singer whose song ushered spring, is a regular feature of the tabloids, elves chatter away on their mobiles, and the wind no longer shakes the barley except in the minds of men. The story is substituted by a stream of images, just as the fragmentation of modern life shatters the ancient, mythic unity of life. The folk tradition is transformed into the urban; the urban remembers the folk and in this way redeems the long forgotten and the lost. Špic-cvak! traces the outlines of this remembering by bringing together the protagonists of the old songs and their interpreters, who suddenly find themselves at the heart of a tale.
Kindly invited!
Tickets for the concerts Špic-Cvak! can be purchased at the Cankarjev dom Information Centre / Box Office (Maximarket lower arcade), Prešernova 10. Open weekdays from 11 a. m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p. m. to 8 p. m., Saturdays from 11 a. m. ro 1 p. m., and one hour before the performance. Tickets can be puchased also on internet: www.cd-cc.si. |
Summer tour
30.05.2009
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Check out the dates of our slovene summer tour in the Live chapter. We proudly and happily present our shows in Austria, Villach (Carinthian summer) on July 17th, and Croatia, Split (Ethnoambient Salona) on July 18th as well.
Kindly welcome, hope to see you! |
Katalena plays in Cvetličarna
23.10.2008
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On Thursday, the 23rd of October Katalena plays in Ljubljana in a concert hall called Cvetličarna. The band plans this to be their last concert in the capital for a period of at least one year. You are kindly invited to attend the show.
(foto: Borut Peterlin) |
Cvik cvak! has been released
22.05.2008
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Our 4th album is out in the stores, but at the time only across Slovenia. You can check it out in Discography section and if you wish to purchase a copy, please send us an email with your adress and Cvik cvak! will be send to you immediately! Please, feel free to send your opinion regarding our music as well... |
Cvik cvak!
07.05.2008
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In these days we are proud to announce that we are finishing our fourth album with the title Cvik cvak! The new album is entirely dedicated to the musical heritage of the Resia valley. The big presentation will take place on May 28th in Križanke open air theatre of Ljubljana, at the closing of the Druga Godba festival. The enlistment of the songs on the new album is very diverse, and therefore the album functions as a musical reflection, or a collection of musical essays on a given subject. The remote alpine valley of Resia is placed in the western Julian Alps in the Italian state territory. It is a small community of approximately 1200 people in 7 villages, that speak a very special language. It is actually a dialect, whose grammar is very different from Slovenian and is full of archaic words, that we don't use anymore. Their musical heritage is rich, and above all, so different than everything else. In comparison with the first three albums, we think we have reached even further in creating the original music on the foundation of a traditional tune. The novelty is also collaboration with a musician and the producer Aldo Ivančič. Aldo has signed very diverse musical projects /Bast, Borghesia... /. His style is investigative and innovative. We share a fascination with the Resian music and a wish to make an homage to this remote piece of land. The creative process was very balanced and inspiring, and we hope we have made an album that will bring a new contribution to the interest in Resian, and Slovenian musical legacy in general. The album Cvik cvak! is being published by Dallas Records. Design is in the hands of Ivian Kan Mujezinović again. Matej Šekli phd dialectologist from the Institute For Slovenian Language helped us great deal with the resian words. The album finally goes to printing at the end of this week, and the first single "Lisïca" will be out by than too. |
New album coming soon
15.04.2008
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Katalena is currently working on their 4th album. In the seventh year the band is searching for new ways of its creativity. The chosen producer for this project is Aldo Ivancic. The new album will be dedicated to musical heritage of Resia and it should be out in May.
Quote about Resian music: "There were festivities and dance. All night long I was listening to the buzz and rumbling of the bass. Tonic-dominant, tonic-dominant in the fast four quarter bar repeating endlessly without stopping or pausing all night long. There was something mischievous and devilish in this. The air was opaque with steam and evaporating wine. Pale wakeful faces with that glazed look in their eyes. Tightly packed crowd of dancing couples who were raving wildly and quietly in a steam of sweat, like obsessed with demons. It was like a picture from 'Inferno'..."
(Julius Kugy, 1925) |
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