| Agentur Fischermann Specials
2009
Elina Duni Quartet (AL/CH)
CD
“Baresha”
www.myspace.com/elinaduni
www.elinaduni.com
Dear Organisers,
I hope you ar doin ´fine.
Are you maybe interested in Elina´s music
for 2009/ 2010? Please look at the latest press reviews
and her website.
Elina Duni is a singer from Albania combining
worldmusic and jazz.
Please join our tourdates and give me a feedback.
2009
03 - 19 September
20 November – 13(15) December
by arrangement
Summer
01 - 07 Maribor/SI
08 - 08 Morges/CH
28 - 08 Willisau/CH
03 - 18 September
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14 - 09 Munich/D
15 - 09 Landsberg/D
16 - 09 Furstenfeldbruck/D
17 - 09 Gauting/D
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19 November – 13 December
19 - 11 Regensburg/D
20 - 11 Raab/A
21 - 11 Otelfingen/CH
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28 - 11 Northeim/D
29 - 11 Wiesbaden/D
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05 - 12 Villingen/D
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09 - 12 Brixen/I
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2010
22 - 28 Fevrier
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&
08 - 25 April
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&
13 - 24 Mai
14 - 05 Bale/CH
15 - 05 Bale/CH
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19 - 05 Brussels/B tbc
20 - 05 Charleville-Mézières/F
21 - 05 Duren/D
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Option
Langenau/D
Linz/A
Lambach/A
Kulak/CH
Nidau/CH
Cologne/D
Oslo/N
Bad Ischl/A
Schweinfurt/D
Ptjui/SI
Magdeburg/D
Heidelberg/D
Tilburg/NL
Hilden/D
Erlangen/D
Dudelange/LU
Uster/CH
Ulm/D
Heidenheim/D
Rüti/CH
Summer
Mülheim/D
Flensburg/D
Bad Wildungen/D
Odessa/UA
Chisinau/MD
Toulouse/F
Elina Duni Quartett (CH)
“Baresha”
Elina Duni...voice//Colin Vallon...piano//Bänz Oester...double bass//Norbert Pfammatter...drums
It is an undisputed fact that music instruments approach their ideal sound the older they get. From tone to tone, from chord to chord, the atoms harmonically align themselves according to the oscillation amplitudes. The consequence is a larger and larger richness of overtone and thus of color. With the human voice the lived experience and the experienced emotions are added, giving additional color. What a treasure of experience must be on hand in Elina Duni, who, at 26 years of age, has a scale of feelings that appears endless and an unbelievable lightness of singing at all depths of sensation. Here are a few possible explanations: born in communist Albania in a liberal artist’s home with a predilection for Italian and American music, and after her parents’ di-
vorce, she grew up happily with her great parents and her extended family. She sang in public for the first time at five years of age. At 11 she moved to Switzerland with her mother. She discovers western pop music (BEATLES & JANIS JOPLIN) and begins a classic education on the piano in Geneva. The epiphany comes when she hears MILES DAVIS’ Kind of Blue, which definitively
determines her further musical path. A return to Albania as a jazz singer and actress, a stay in New York and jazz studies in Bern are further stations in the life of this full-blooded artist.
Today Elina Duni finds her way back to her musical roots with her own band – a megaquartett of the current Swiss jazz scene (with Colin Vallon on piano, Bänz Oester on bass and Norbert Pfammatter on drums). How natural everything seems – the melting pot of traditional melodies including diverse compound meters of her homeland and its neighbors, French chansons from GAINSBOURG & FERRÉ, the jazz jewel “Solitary Moon,” first sung by Shirley Horn and freely associated passages – reminding one of Norway’s vocal exports. Everything disparate is held together by a polyglot singer, who - fabulating Albanian-orientally - has the seven wonders of the vocal world as her emblem. Her intonation stands on secure foundations like the pyramids from Giseh. Similar to the “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” the opulent modulation of her voice is trained in melismas. At the temple of Artmis in Ephesus, we also find a pleasingly balanced space for improvisation. Secretive Eros with his brother Thanatos, full of yearning, are associated with the mausoleum from Halikarnoassos. Just as the Colossus from Rhodos, the volume of the voice, rises above everything else, so does its timbre point to the cult image of Zeus in Olympia, which consists of the most different materials and nuances of color. And the articulation is of impressive brilliance in its functionality like the lighthouse from Pharos.
And I am sure, with her we will experience the eighth wonder of the voice: the elegance through life’s wisdom.
VOICES FROM THE PRESS
2009
Elina’s voice is a true instrument, with the sort of true musicality that is rare with singers. I could go on and on with more highlights but won’t. Suffice to say that Elina and her group mesmerize with a unique amalgam of Eastern European tradition transposed to a modern Jazz key, a group sensibility that goes far beyond singer and typical piano trio backup. The music is tender, quietly sad, meditatively intimate and passionate in turn and Elina is a vocal stylist that deserves to be heard. This is lovely music, lovingly rendered. She shows that the singer and band formula need not rely on stale, endless reiterations of the past but can strike out on new roads that synthesize different styles and world sounds. Excellent.
Grego Applegate Edwards, Cadence
“The young, Albanian singer Elina Duni’s debut album Baresha is beautiful enough to make you cry ....” “From Balkan beats, jazz song and chanson flair, Elina Duni conjures up a dream-like, passionate world of chamber music with her Swiss trio ....” “A great discovery”!
Steffen Radlmaier, Nürnberger Nachrichten
“...rarely does music touch the ear as Baresha does – as do the songs of the unknown Elina Duni, who transforms Albanian, Greek and Bulgarian songs into jazz on her first album, without selling them and herself under their real value.”
Konrad Heidkampf, Die Zeit
“The astonishment about the pure beauty, about this simultaneity of melancholy, euphoria and musical bravado in the music of this woman and her amazing band. Elina Duni is the singer’s name and her concert marked a much praised magical moment of this year’s Be-Jazz winter festival.”
Ane Hebeisen, Der Bund
“What a delightful contrast to all the Scandinavian singers, who blow down to us Middle Europeans in such large flocks! What the Albanian singer Elina Duni, who now lives in Geneva, does from the traditional songs of her homeland is simple, incomparable and quite original ....” “...an unbelievable, strong-voiced, enchanting and wonderful interpreter!”
Sven Thielmann, Stereoplay
“A debut album that has become a master stroke. The songs from Southern Europe meld with contemporary jazz patterns, as if they had never been separated.”
Urs Gilgen, Jazzeit
“From the very first moment one is ensnared. What this music says is important. And intimate like a diary. The pull of her voice creates a pact between singer and public: this here is holy and that will remain our secret!”
Sven Sorgenfrey, Financial Times Deutschland
with best regards//mit freundlichen Grüßen//cordialement
cordialemente//vennlig hilsen//Mången hälsning
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Parimat//Terveisin//varma hälsningar//Abrazos
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