Silom is a Slovenian creative music trio using a variety of string, percussive, and melodic percussive instruments, focused on the acoustic aspects of complex evolving works that combine composed and improvised aspects to create rich music with ancient ethnic overtones.
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Iztok Koren-banjo, bass drum, chimes, balafon
Ana Kravanja-violin, viola, ribab, kalimba, bendir, balafon, voice
Samo Kutin-ukulele, kalimba, tamburica, harps, balafon, sound objects
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UPC: 4562144180155
Label: Amorfon
Catalog ID: amorfon015
Squidco Product Code: 23941
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Japan
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Posavec, Slovenia, 2015.
"Slovenia bordering the border with Austria and Italy, located most west of Balkan. History, this place where western music and oriental music have intertwined. Ethnic music of the past and modern music also crossed in this place, and it became a new wind. "Silom" an ensemble trio using various string instruments, xylophones, percussion, creative musical instruments. This work recorded with acoustic performance that draws out the unique sounds of instruments such as The Necks and Richard Skelton is a one-out recording without overdubbing.
Combining well-composed parts and improvised parts well, three members playing while changing instruments, respectively. Deep sounding like Alvo Pelt, the development of dynamic songs and impressive Roman style violin, the sound of beautiful silk phones (the creative musical instruments) in the development part, colorful multinational poly rhythms, the vibration of stringed instruments shaking emotion."-Amorfon
"Širom is Slovenian trio formed in 2015, consisting of Iztok Koren (banjo, bass drum, chimes, balafon), Ana Kravanja (violin, viola, ribab, kalimba, bendir, balafon) and Samo Kutin (ukulele, kalimba, tamburica, harps, balafon, sound objects).
Širom members come from the regions of Prekmurje, Tolminsko and Kras. Their work is noted for its fusion of polyphony and psychedelic music with folk, classical and improvisational elements. Their first album was released in 2016."-Wikipedia
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Ana Kravanja "Ana Kravanja is a member of the music group Širom, where she plays on a multitude of traditional, classic and hand-made musical instruments.She creates original music for theatrical performances, films, animations, narratives, poetry, dance and visual arts. In 2013, she conceived the Glacies project in which musicians play on shelves from refrigerator. Between 2012 and 2016, in the duo Najou with Sam Kutin, she created music for fourteen calinbas and recorded two records. She is one tenth of Olfamoštvo. As an improviser on the violin, she collaborated with numerous Slovene and foreign musicians and dancers: Samo Kutin, Tomaž Grom, Irena Tomažin, Vid & Jošt Drašler, Andrej Fon, Ina Puntar, Tea Vidmar, Tijana Stankovic, Noid, Matija Schellander, Susanna Gartmayer, Aleksandar Škorić, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Henrik Olsson, Raphael Roginski, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Lotus Edde Khouri etc. She has co-created several events within projects of the Sploh Institute, such as: in the context of the Confine aperto, Zvokotok and Neforma series, RR public presentation, Sound Disobedience festival and international tour. Her contributions can also be heard on the Sound Disobedience album, released in 2011 by Sploh in co-production with L'innomable. A recording of her solo concerts is a part of the iMstrument collection." ^ Hide Bio for Ana Kravanja
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Track Listing:
1. The Lonesome Has To Scent 5:38
2. A Passage Of Light On Return 15:38
3. Trilogy 17:55
4. Roar's Soft Steps 7:29
5. Tomorrow, Each Day Is A New Day 2:12
Compositional Forms
Electro-Acoustic
Cultural Musics from Around the World
Stringed Instruments
Large Ensembles
Cultural Musics from Around the World
New in Compositional Music
Objects and Home-made Instruments
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