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艺人: Dine Doneff
语种: 纯音乐
厂牌: ECM
发行时间: 2018年01月26日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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ROUSILVO

DINE DONEFF

Release date: 26.01.2018

neRED 1

Format : CD

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EN / DE Macedonian composer/multi-instrumentalist Dine Doneff (or Kostas Theodorou, his Greek citizenship name) presents his Balkan-Jazz Folk Opera – Rousilvo. Heavily influenced by the culture of his homeland, Doneff, creates a musical fabric through open dialogue among the members of a septet. A polyphony of seven women’s voices, interspersed with extracts from numerous authentic field recordings, complete a narration of expanding rhythmic and melodic forms.

Rousilvo is the old, Slavic name of the village of Xanthogeia, in north-western Greece. The village’s name, and its Slav-Macedonian speaking community, fell victim to the policy of the Greek state to forcibly “Hellenize” the land and its people. At the end of the Greek Civil War (1946-49) most of the women in the village were left alone for the rest of their lives; their husbands either killed or exiled. Since 1986 the village has been uninhabitated as a result of long-lasting social marginalization.

Ten compositions, alternating with location recordings of the surviving elderly residents of the village (sometimes singing, at times narrating their stories) salvaging and transforming a treasure trove, an elegy, of a vanishing poetry.

BACKGROUND

Rousilvo is a Balkan-Jazz Folk Opera written by Dine Doneff. The composer, heavily influenced by the Macedonian cultural heritage, creates a musical fabric through open dialogue among the instruments upon which a polyphony of seven women’s voices interspersed with extracts from numerous authentic field recordings complete a narration of expanding rhythmic and melodic forms.

Born in West Germany to Macedonian parents and raised in the Northern Greek prefecture of Edessa, Dine Doneff (or Kostas Theodorou, his Greek citizenship name) has been active as a musician and composer since the mid-eighties. Educating his inner soul by exploring life through music, he became a self taught musician.

By the 90’s he was working as an arranger, ensemble director and producer on studio recordings. Alternating between touring abroad, he joined the group Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico in 2001, with four albums released by ECM; from 2002 to 2005 he taught at the Technical Education Institute of Epirus and the University of Macedonia. Later, under the fictional auspices of no bizz productions, he became the pivot, and inspiration, of ninety nine, improvised public rehearsal performances in a small underground theatre in Thessaloniki from 2005 to 2011 involving onstage encounters between Doneff and musicians, dancers, actors, poets and visual artists. Interludes of composing for the theatre and silver screen interspersed with forays into theatre direction and, under the name of Tome Rapovina, directing and editing short films. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a composer and actor with the Kammerpiele in Munich and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.

His first album Nostos came out in 1999 with the music label LYRA in Athens. Then, in 2010 with the help of a friend and a book publisher in Thessaloniki, he released a limited edition of Rousilvo the second part of a trilogy after Nostos.

As a result of his appearance as an ECM artist, Dine Doneff, proceeds to building up the label neRED music following a suggestion of Manfred Eicher, ECM’s founder and producer. The label’s first release is the album Rousilvo, which will be marketed in cooperation with ECM Records.

Excerpts of reviews from Greek journalists concerning on Rousilvo:

“Rousilvo is the old, Slavic name of the village Xanthogeia, a few kilometers from the city of Edessa, in north-western Greece. The village’s name, and its Slavic-speaking community, had become some of the victims of the policy of the Greek state to forcibly “Hellenize” the land and its people, a policy that soon became a widespread practice in this former-Ottoman area annexed by the Greek kingdom in 1912. From then on, people were, in practical terms, dispossessed from using their mother tongue in public as the Greek state considered (and, to some extent, still does today) even the simple act of speaking it as some sort of subversive anti-Hellenic propaganda.”

Vaggelis Poulios, Avopolis, Athens

"Having obviously grown up in a land of cultural mosaics, Doneff, himself “crowned” by a hundred years of propaganda that sought, and continues to seeks to demean and obliterate the existence of Greece’s slavophone citizens, succeeds in creating a luminous jewel in the rather overdone, from an aesthetic point of view, genre of Balkan Jazz. What is the key to Doneff’s success? In his compositions of course, but also, perhaps mainly, in his life enhancing concept of enriching his creation with female voices of haunting quality. From there on, the compositions, even when not explicitly intending to, assume the character of a requiem, vibrant with the sensitive playing of good musicians, but mainly with Doneff’s own determination to reclaim the dignity of his native land, at the same time interweaving into his compositions the authentic sounds of people and nature. Excellent album.

Fondas Troussas, Jazz & Jazz, Athens

"Ten compositions, alternating with location recordings of the surviving elderly residents of the village (sometimes singing, at times narrating their stories) salvaging and transforming a treasure trove, an elegy, of a disappearing poetry. A summation of some of the most creative musicians of the land who accompany Doneff, revealing an exquisite richness that would normally struggle to find expression through the channels of mainstream, alternative or independent local discography."

Yorgos Hristodoulopoulos, Eleftherotypia, Athens

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