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Folk music (Kosovo)

Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1981, in an artist family, Elina Duni makes her first steps on stage as a singer at the age of five and sings for the National Radio and Television.
In 1991 after the fall of the communist regime, she arrives in Switzerland and settles in Geneva together with her mother where she starts the classical piano and discovers jazz.
Some musical, film and theater projects after, she studies singing and composition at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, in the jazz department.
During this time she develops the Elina Duni Quartet with Colin Vallon on piano, Patrice Moret on double bass and Norbert Pfammatter on drums – which represents a return to her musical sources, a combination of Balkan folk songs and jazz.

Edited by Arbnor - 26-Jan-2014 at 08:15

Cover of traditional song:

Patriotic music

Title: Albanian Rhapsody

Singer: Jericho

Country: Kosovo

Edited by Arbnor - 18-Jun-2014 at 16:26

Title: Urat e jetes

Singer: Alban Skenderaj

Country: Albania

The sky sheds its light over the city,
while the soul leaves the body in solitude,
this distant voice once again leaves me uneasy,
posing a million questions to the scene.

Oh how fearful it is to think of my life as only a drop in the water,
no, it can’t be solely by chance, the pain that a mother feels when her kid is suffering,
no, it can’t be solely poetry when the heart shivers in the presence of love,
no, it can’t be solely irony when living amongst millions of injustices.

As a new life is born, a new universe is formed,
as another one fades in the immortal foreverness,
sadness surrounds when believing that all we are, are passengers of time.

No, it can’t be solely by chance, the pain that a mother feels when her kid is suffering,
no, it can’t be solely poetry when your heart shivers in the presence of love,
no, it can’t be solely irony when living amongst millions of injustices.

As much as it scares me, it also leaves me speechless,
at the end, this mystery is not only a tale,
as I am still alive.

No, they can’t be solely history, the ones that gave their lives in the fight against slavery,
no, it can’t be solely fantasy, the power of a dream which knows neither time nor boundaries,
no, it can’t be solely a miracle, to pave your future for a life in continuation,
perhaps we are one, perhaps we are energy, derived from the same pain and the same happiness,
forever human.