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Jovicevic, Jasna Sextet: Flow Vertical (FMR)

Hungarian composer, improviser and multi-reedist Jasna Jovicevic in an album researching sound vibrations and their direct impact on our body, energy, and creativity, performed with her contemporary chamber jazz sextet of bassoon, percussion, viola, violin and violincello, lyrical and joyful music "divided according to psychic centers in the human body".
 

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Gabriela Koso-bassoon

Jasna Jovicevic-composer, saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion, vocals

Uros Secerov-percussion

Rastko Popovic-viola

Filip Krumes-violin

Dejan Bozic-violoncello


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UPC: 748079797185

Label: FMR
Catalog ID: 475-0318
Squidco Product Code: 25856

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel
Recorded by Alen Hadzi Stefanov.

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"Flow Vertical is research of sound vibrations through music, and its direct impact on our body, energy, and creativity.

Composer and improviser, Jasna Jovicevic, explores the creative process in composing and improvising, witnessing and producing certain sound frequencies, which in a particular way, influences our mind, body and energy centers (chakras). This is a conceptual program music, divided according to psychic centers in the human body. It is written for string trio, bassoon, percussions, saxophones, bass clarinet, spacedrum and voice. Interaction and collaborative performance are smoothly interrelated with contemporary approach in chamber jazz."-Jasna Jovicevic


Artist Biographies

"Jasna Joviċeviċ is saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, and spacedrum player and composer from Serbia. Jasna received her BA from Franc Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, Hungary, and MA in composition from York University in Toronto. She also studied music in Serbia, Brazil, USA and Austria, won the grants to Veneto Jazz- Italy, Banff Centre- Canada, ArtsLink- New York City, OMI- New York and Djerassi Residency - San Francisco Artist in Residency programs, as well as competitions in Milan, Budapest and Ljubljana for her compositions and performances. She performed her work around Europe, USA and Canada on various national and international festivals.

She recorded few jazz albums, and "Invented Reality" and "The Sound of Birds" are her solo albums. Now living in Serbia, she is collaborating with the greatest Serbian and international artists in music and multidisciplinary projects.

She has long experience in pedagogy, teaching at the University level, but mainly interested in non-formal education. She combines music knowledge with the knowledge of Yoga, Nature, Phycology, and Ecology, encouraging creativity and personal experience of music and art.

Jasna is a certified hatha yoga teacher, with special accent on Nada yoga teachings, the yoga of Sound."

-Jasna Jovicevic Website (http://www.jasnajovicevic.com/about)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Rising Barefoot Battle 4:19

2. Drifting Upstream 4:45

3. Ram Runs Through The Veins 9:18

4. Offering Tears For Pearls 7:25

5. Speak Loud, My Inner Child 8:59

6. Fairly With The Dense Green Eye 6:29

7. Silver Wings Of A Thousand Petals 8:33

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Compositional Forms
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Sextet Recordings
Unusual Vocal Forms
Melodic and Lyrical Jazz
Chamber Jazz

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