VV.AA. ::: Smarnamisa! Resia valley music

from La folie du jour, submitted by Miguel
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Resia Valley is a very small municipality-region lying in North Italy near the borders with Slovenia and Austria.
Resian people, who nowadays are numbered in about a thousand, have slavic origins and speak a very idiomatic
slavic dialect ("rozajanski"), strongly influenced by archaic lingual elements. Located between the two peninsulas 
(the balkan and the italian), but in fact isolated due to its surrounded by mountains alpine position, Resia has, 
in spite of its size, a rich folkloric history with unique customs and traditions.
"Smarnamisa!" compilation, an Avant Records release, is a rare document of traditional resian music created by 
fiddle ("citara"), cello ("bunkula"), "percussive'' feet, vocals, narrations etc.
Perhaps attractive mainly to ones with traditional folk tastes or ethno-musicological interests, but valuable and
sympathetic as a voice of an unseen dot of the world can be.
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01. Skakji, Wtοcavi, Wφda, Glasji Tu-W Reziji
02. Kaku to Lλpu Po Gorδh!
03. Ta-Dφ Z Te Biske Jasane
04. Ta Matjonawa
05. Ta Pόstawa
06. Woda Ta Jurόdina
07. -missing- 
08. Ta Kuskrοtawa (
09. Ta Matjonawa
10. Gφra Ta Banλrina
11. Poti Mi Dφ Po Lοpje
12. Poti Mi Dφ Po Lοpje
13. Ta Divajina
14. Stara Rozajanska Wόza
15. Patalen Ka Zόbel Zvοzgulec
16. Glasji Ta-Na Kurοtλ
17. Ta Ukawa
18. Jtφ Ki Jφcλ To Ni Mφ!
19. Ta Bantawa
20. Ta Lipawska
21. Juhuhόc...!
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1997 • Avant Records 
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256 kbps CBR • track 7 is missing • no booklet
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Smarnamisa! Resia valley music

Livio Morosin & Dario Marusic ::: Bura Tramuntana

courtesy of katjusha at World music
In 1999 Istrian ethno musicians LIVIO MOROSIN and DARIO MARUŠIĆ issued the album BURA TRAMUNTANA (Croatia Records). For this album they got greatest Croatian music award "PORIN" for the best ethno album of the year
Livio Morosin was born in 1963 in the town of Pula. He started his musical career in the late Eighties as an active member of the band «Gustafi» (guitarist, vocal and composer). 1993, he realized a productive cooperation with the, in these parts, very famous singer Alen Vitasović, producing the hit songs “Ja ne morem bez nje“, „Gušti su gušti“, „Je`na noć“...(the album was sold in 72,000 copies). In 1996, he released his first solo album „I Anelidi su bili crnci", containing the hit single “Tri naranče”. The cooperation with Dario Marušić provided him the music award „Porin“ for the best ethno album (“Bura tramuntana”). Following persons worked as well on that album: Neven Frangeš – keyboard, Mario Mavrin – bass guitar, Damir Šomen – drums, Hrvoje Rupčić – percussions, Jurica Pađen – guitar, Alfio Mejak – accordion. In cooperation with the internationally known actor Rade Šerbedžija, he released the album „Orihi Orihi“ in 2002. All his hit singles were released again in 2003 compiled in a “best of” album. In 2005, he presents the ethno album “Tri naranče” and the album “Livio Morosin” in 2007. Livio participated in many festivals and ethno festivals in Croatia («Arena fest», «Zadar fest», MIK ....)
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Livio Morosin: vocal, programming, sampling;    
Dario Marusic: vocal, dvojnice, mih, sopele, surle, violin;    
Martina Matic: vocal
Alfio Mejak: harmonica
Neven Franges: keyboards;    
Mario Mavrin: bass
Hrvoje Rupcic: percussions
Damir Somen: drums;    
Max Juricic, Jurica Padjen, Robert Vnuk: guitars    
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01. Bura Tramuntana (3:51)
02. Koleda (4:00)
03. Baladur (3:56)
04. Aj Grota Grota (3:34)
05. La Bella Sireneta (3:32)
06. 1914. (Mojen Didu) (5:19)
07. Stajra (2:33)
08. Deklica (3:13)
09. Dojdi Kada Misec Zajde (3:55)
10. Zminjska Polka (4:05)
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1999 • Art film croatia records CD 5316800
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Bura Tramuntana

Marusic IsTrio ::: Istrophonia

courtesy of katjusha at World music
Music CD "Istrophonia", by Istrian musicologist Dario Marušić and his band "IsTrio", with reinterpretations of original Istrian traditional songs, dedicated to Jules Verne, with quoting from "Mathias Sandorf" on the cover.
The pluriethnic and multicultural microcosm of Istria is a meeting point and a point of constant contact, exchange, permeation, and transformation, but also the maintenance of continuity of the musical cultures of the Croats, Slovenes, Italians, Istro-Romanians and Peroj-Montenegrins as autochtonous ethnic groups. The Istrian modus vivendi that translates multiculturality to authentic, everyday culture can be defined as an articulate and unique system of historical, ethnic, cultural and linguistic shades that marks and determines the specific quality of Istria in relation to most of Croatian, Slovenian, and Italian, but also many other European areas.
It s not the mere sum of different cultural substances, which, by historical circumstances, exist one next to each other, but it is more a centuries-long, spiritually-cultural sedimentation and intertwinement in which, what is special productively comes up from specific unity of cultural differences. Because of true intercultural communication, multicultural facts are not made distincitve but only being recognized
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Dario Marusic: fiddle electric violin, Istrian pipes. MIDI wind controller, programming, vocals
Marino Cranjak: guitar, vocals
Gabriele Coltri: woodwinds
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Drago Draguzet: keyboards
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01. A la bugarissa, Sanja rozice na 7 (3:26)
02. Xe la luna in mezo al mare (4:17)
03. Balon draguzetov (2:08)
04. Jota Iota Yota (3:55)
05. Tamo doli poli mora (4:07)
06. Bregbalon (3:37)
07. Rondinistrovica (3:45)
08. Polka z Dragutske vale (3:49)
09. Prosi je star muz divojku, Zrasla mi ladonja (3:10)
10. Vien, valservien (5:08)
11. RSB (3:28)
12. Siben che son veceto (3:38)
13. Na moru bez kraja (2:09)
14. Ale bele pute (4:00)
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1996 • Ribium CDE11
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Istrophonia
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A very interesting piece of work on Istrian folk music

VV.AA. ::: Tribù italiche 2 - Friuli Venezia Giulia

Vol. 2 is dedicated to Friuli Venezia Giulia musicians. Just obn the other side of the border with austria and Slovenia, Balkan and Central european influences are stronger than anywhere else in Italy
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01 Fasin un cjant (La sedon salvadie) 
02 Tu-w gozde, te wdilanu (Anonimo) 
03 Citira: Ta Medvedawa (Giovanni di Lenardo)
04 Lipe Rozize (Glauco Venier) 
05 La balade dal pizighet (Mitili FLK) 
06 Klabzuba 1947 (Zuf de Zur) 
07 Bulgar a' la Klezmatics (The original Klezmer Ensemble) 
08 Total Kontaminazion (Paolo Paolin e i Rocciosi) 
09 Aiar di cunfin (Michele Pucci & Giulio Venier) 
10 Valzer di Napoleon (Liso Jussa) 
11 Atenz Du' Cuanc' (Braul)
12 Crames Marochins (Furclap) 
13 Anime femine (Gigi Maieron) 
14 Man man (Lino Straulino) 
15 Guriut (Nosisà) 
16 Furlana (Carantan)
17 Mariner (Alfredo Lacosegliaz) 
18 Cjale ce sere (U.T. Gandhi ensemble) 
19 El bal dal Cosac (Arbe Garbe) 
20 Miserere quaresimale (Cantoria della Pieve di S. Maria di Gorto) 
21 Agnui e gjaui chi giuio (Madrac) 
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2001 • World music magazine WM020
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Friuli Venezia Giulia part 1
Friuli Venezia Giulia part 2