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	<title>Amira Medunjanin &#124; official website</title>
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		<title>Amulette @ Mondomix</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amulette A l’instar de la saudade portugaise, du duende espagnol ou de l’asouf des Touaregs, le sevdah balkanique est un mot qui désigne différentes formes de la mélancolie, particulièrement celles ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Amulette</h1>
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<p><strong>A l’instar de la saudade portugaise, du duende espagnol ou de l’asouf des Touaregs</strong>, le sevdah balkanique est un mot qui désigne différentes formes de la mélancolie, particulièrement celles liées au sentiment amoureux. Comme eux, il désigne également un genre musical poignant dont la chanteuse de Sarajevo <strong>Amira Medunjanin</strong>est la plus belle ambassadrice, digne héritière de la regrettée <a href="http://ljiljana_buttler.mondomix.com/fr/artiste.htm" target="_blank"><strong>Ljiljana Buttler</strong></a>. <strong>Amira commença par en livrer une approche traditionnelle</strong>, avec le <strong>Mostar Sevdah Reunion</strong>, puis l’a amené vers des rives plus contemporaines aux côtés de l’accordéoniste <strong>Merima Kljuco</strong>, sur <em>Zumra</em>, en 2010. <strong>La voici cette fois dans une configuration encore plus audacieuse, avec un quatuor jazz emmené par l’éminent pianiste serbe Bojan Z.<br />
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<p><strong>Le répertoire puise dans les chansons traditionnelles bosniennes, serbes, macédoniennes et kosovares, et conte des amours foudroyants, déçus, trahis, non partagés, virant à la haine.</strong> Les musiciens en livrent des déclinaisons sobres et pudiques, magnifiques toiles en clair obscur sur lesquelles la voix d’Amira peut imprimer toutes les nuances du désenchantement. Bojan Z en prolonge les échos par des coulée de piano jamais ostentatoires, toujours justes, auxquelles répondent sur deux titres les traits de guitare fulgurants et tout aussi pertinents de <strong>Vlatko Stefanovski</strong>.<strong> La plupart des morceaux esquissent des paysages de neige sur lesquels brille un soleil à demi voilé</strong>, particulièrement la ballade tragique<em>Jano Mori</em> et le fantomatique <em>Kad Puhnuše Sabahzorski Vjetrovi</em>, nimbé dans un brouillard à couper au couteau. Le primesautier et enlevé <em>Omer Beže</em> fait figure d’exception, <strong>comme une auberge chauffée après la traversée de terres glacées</strong>, avant que le final <em>Marijo Deli Bela Kumrijo</em> ne restitue au fil de ses paliers une sourde tension. <strong>Un disque d’une épure remarquable, qui se dispense d’effets pour ne pas trahir la finesse d’une émotion d’un noir et blanc somptueux.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bertrand Bouard</strong></p>
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		<title>Amulette USA release on March 13th!</title>
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		<title>Amira @ Babel Med Music</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Sevdah bosnienne, mélancolique aux vibrations jazzistiques Sur les terres de Bosnie-Herzégovine bat le cœur de la Sevdah, cette musique traditionnelle basée sur de vieilles formes turques, héritage de l’Empire ...]]></description>
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<p>Sur les terres de Bosnie-Herzégovine bat le cœur de la Sevdah, cette musique traditionnelle basée sur de vieilles formes turques, héritage de l’Empire Ottoman, narrant avec émotion des histoires d’amour meurtri. Ambassadrice de ce genre méconnu aux vibrations jazzistiques, la jeune Amira dresse par sa voix cristalline et ses interprétations douces comme des caresses toute la mélancolie et la poésie qui traversent l’âme bosnienne. Epaulée par Bojan Z, la référence des pianistes jazz, cette charismatique chanteuse survole les sommets poignants de la Sevdah, nimbée d’une grâce intimiste…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dock-des-suds.org/babelmedmusic2012/programmation_jeudi_fr.html" target="_blank">Babel Med Music</a></p>
<p>March 29 / Marseille, France</p>
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		<title>Review at Telegraaf NL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blues uit de Balkan Muziekrecensie: Amira &#8211; Amulette door Ronneke van der genugten WERELDMUZIEK -  De Portugese fado is een algemeen begrip. Maar hoe omschrijf je Sevda? De traditionele muziek uit ...]]></description>
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<h1><a href="http://www.telegraaf.nl/filmenuitgaan/muziek/11291436/__Amira_-_Amulette__.html?fb_ref=art&amp;fb_source=timeline" target="_blank">Muziekrecensie: Amira &#8211; Amulette</a></h1>
<p>door Ronneke van der genugten</p>
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<div>WERELDMUZIEK -  De Portugese fado is een algemeen begrip. Maar hoe omschrijf je Sevda? De traditionele muziek uit Bosnië kent weliswaar veel overeenkomsten met de Spaanse, Portugese en Argentijnse muziek, maar heeft toch een geheel eigen geluid. In de teksten kent de liefde een grote betekenis, de uitvoering is erg afhankelijk van de artiest.</div>
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<div id="googleadspace1">De in Sarajevo geboren zangeres Amira Medunjanin brengt de muziek uit haar land bluesachtig tot leven met een diepe, emotionele stem. Heel bewust kiest ze voor grote stiltes in haar arrangementen. Op het album <em>Amulette</em>brengt ze levensliederen uit Macedonië, Bosnië, Servië en Kosovo. Met grote stelligheid vertolkt ze het klassieke Bele Ruze. De traditionele trouwmars Kad Puhnuse Sabahzorkski Vjetrovi klinkt bijna feeëriek. Wereldmuzikanten als Mariza en Vicente Amigo hebben er een geduchte concurrente bij.</div>
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		<title>Amulette on Global Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mit der dritten Produktion setzt die Sängerin aus Sarajewo ihre Lieder in ein jazziges Umfeld. Sie hat in Bojan Zulfikarpašić einen sehr aufmerksamen Arrangeur gefunden. Sevdah, die melancholischen, sehsüchtigen Melodien ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mit der dritten Produktion setzt die Sängerin aus Sarajewo ihre Lieder in ein jazziges Umfeld. Sie hat in <a href="http://www.bojanz.com/bio.html" target="_blank">Bojan Zulfikarpašić </a>einen sehr aufmerksamen Arrangeur gefunden.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalsounds.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/amira-amulett.jpg"><img title="amira-amulett" src="http://www.globalsounds.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/amira-amulett-200x200.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevdalinka" target="_blank">Sevdah</a>,  die melancholischen, sehsüchtigen Melodien aus dem Balkan sind das  Liederbuch der Amira Medunjanin. Mit jeder Produktion verleiht sie den  traditionellen Melodien aus Serbien, Bosnien, dem Kosovo oder der  Republik Mazedonien ein neues musikalisches Kleid. Auf ihrem Erstling  «Amira» begleiteten sie die Musiker der <a href="http://www.mostarsevdahreunion.com/" target="_blank">Mostar Sevdah Reunion</a>. Der Zweitling <a href="http://www.globalsounds.info/2010/07/amira-merima-kljuco-zumra/" target="_blank">«Zumra»</a> führte sie auf klangexperimentelle Wege mit der Akkordeonistin Merima  Ključo. Für die aktuelle Produktion wählte sie ein Jazztrio mit Gästen.</p>
<p>Für Arrangeur und Pianist <a href="http://www.bojanz.com/bio.html" target="_blank">Bojan Z</a> gehörten die Melodien der Balkanregion zur Grundnahrung, Hausmusik  wurde gross geschrieben. Später dann Klassik und Jazz, und jetzt wieder  die „alten“ Melodien, aber eben in welt-jazzigen Arrangements. Amira und  Bojan greifen nicht in die Melodien ein, verändern die Zwischenspiele,  die Umrahmungen. In den Piano-Soli dürfen die Strukturen aufbrechen.  Bass, Perkussion und Piano finden immer wieder rechtzeitig zusammen, um  die Sängerin in die nächste Strophe zu begleiten. Und Amira glänzt dort  am besten, wo sie ihre Stimme nicht forciert, keine übertriebene  Gefühlsdichte in die Melodien hineinlegt, nur einfach singt.</p>
<p>Die Interpretationen von Amira und Bojan befreien diese Lieder von  jeglichem geografischen oder historischen Ballast und machen daraus  Melodien, die nur sich selber genügen – und das schaffen sie wunderbar.</p>
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		<title>Amulette on MixedWorldMusic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amira &#8211; Amulette World Village / Harmonia Mundi Zangeres Amira uit Sarajevo is een spectaculaire sevda-blueszangeres met een prachtige emotionele stem die tot in de diepste krochten van de ziel ...]]></description>
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<p>Zangeres Amira uit Sarajevo is een spectaculaire sevda-blueszangeres met  een prachtige emotionele stem die tot in de diepste krochten van de  ziel door kan dringen. Op <em>Amulette</em> heeft de Servische  jazzpianist en producer Bojan Z dit met minimale arrangementen – waarin  op het juiste moment stilte ook als essentieel instrument telt – perfect  ondersteund. Samen hebben ze de levensliederen uit Macedonië, Bosnië,  Servië en Kosovo afwisselende arrangementen meegegeven. Dit alles werd  ook nog eens subliem geregistreerd door ex-Kraftwerk-engineer(!)  Quintus. Kippenvelmomenten bij de vleet op dit schitterende album, waar  Amira&#8217;s kwetsbare, rijk genuanceerde en betoverende stem ook fier en  vastberaden klinkt. Met haar formidabele vertolking van <em>Bele Ruze</em>,  de klassieker van de onlangs overleden sevdakoning Saban Bajramovic,  met alleen een dubbele bas als begeleiding zet ze de luisteraar meteen  op het puntje van z&#8217;n stoel. De zeggingskracht van Amira&#8217;s stem kan zich  met gemak meten met Yasmin Levy of fadokoningin Mariza. En de uiterst  kale uitvoering met navenante spookachtige geluidsbehandeling van de  traditionele weddingsong <em>Kad Puhnuse Zabahzorski Vjetrovi</em> laat  je pas goed beseffen hoe louterend en obsederend deze briljant  uitgewerkte muzikale dialoog inwerkt op de luisteraar. Bojan Z&#8217;s uptempo  pianospel in <em>Jano Mori</em>, vol arpeggio&#8217;s, is eigenlijk de enige onbeheerste uitspatting. Zo&#8217;n topzangeres, die ooit krachtig debuteerde met de cd <em>Rosa</em>, verdient een vol Carré. Mijn album van 2011. (Pieter Franssen)</p>
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		<title>Top of the World album: Songlines magazine, review by Simon Broughton</title>
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		<title>Amulette Review on Properganda by Sofi Mogensen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amira Medunjanin has come a long way in seven years. Her widely acclaimed debut album Rosa, released on Snail Records in 2004, introduced us to a young Sarajevo-born singer with ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="../" target="_blank"><strong>Amira</strong></a> Medunjanin has come a long way in seven years. Her widely acclaimed debut album <em>Rosa</em>,  released on Snail Records in 2004, introduced us to a young  Sarajevo-born singer with an exquisite voice capable of conveying the  beauty, sadness and soulful longing of Bosnian sevdah – a style of  singing that shares an emotional yearning with the Portuguese saudade of  fado and the blues of Cape Verde. Since her debut recording with Mostar  Sevdah Reunion, Amira has worked with a variety of musicians,  continually seeking to push the boundaries of Bosnian sevdah to find new  means of expression. As well as a live album recorded at the Sarajevo  Jazz Festival in 2008, her more experimental leanings led to a  collaboration with Bosnian-born accordionist Merima Ključo taking  traditional Bosnian sevdalinke, Macedonian and Serbian songs and  re-imagining them in a contemporary context. Released on World Village  in 2010, <em>Zumra</em> was a brave and bold musical statement that  explored the worlds of Balkan folk, jazz and contemporary music in  compelling fashion.</p>
<p>A year down the line and it feels that Amira’s musical vision has  finally come to fruition in this remarkable partnership with  Belgrade-born, Paris-based jazz pianist Bojan Z on her fourth album <em><strong>Amulette</strong></em>, released this week on World Village. The opening bars of <em>Bele Ruže</em> (White Roses) reveal the soft, sultry tones of Amira’s voice enveloped  in the warmth of Nenad Vasilić’s double bass playing. As the album  progresses, the talents of the hand-picked musicians are telling: Kim  Burton’s guest accordion, Lebanese percussionist Bachar Khalife and  Bojan Z hit it off on the traditional Serbian song <em>Zemi Me Zemi</em>;  the intricate fretwork of guest guitarist Vlatko Stefanovski  complements Bojan Z’s keyboard musings on the beautiful Macedonian song <em>Prošeta Se Jovka Kumanovka</em>, while Amira and Bojan Z share a musical intimacy and understanding on the traditional Bosnian sevdalinka <em>Kafu Mi Draga Ispeci</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.propergandaonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/amirabojan-fotojurematoz-bw-450.jpg"><img title="Amira (photo © Jure Matoz)" src="http://www.propergandaonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/amirabojan-fotojurematoz-bw-450.jpg" alt="Amira (photo © Jure Matoz)" width="450" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>Elsewhere, <em>Grana Od Bora</em> finds Bojan Z under the lid and  wringing out the percussive qualities of the piano as Amira’s voice  floats over the top. Bojan Z’s arrangement of <em>Omer Beže</em> reflects the comic conversation between two lovers with spirited  performances from both Bojan and Khalife and contrasts nicely with the  disturbing setting of the Bosnian wedding song <em>Kad Puhnuše Sabahzorski Vjetrovi</em> whose interpretation is left to the imaginations of the audience and the musicians.</p>
<p>There’s plenty to love here – the songs, inventive arrangements, warm  production and the interaction of a group of hugely talented musicians  who share in a musical vision untempered by genre – but it’s Amira and  Bojan Z’s musical partnership that nails it for me. Let’s hope we see  more of them in the UK soon.</p>
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		<title>Amulette Review in Financial Times by David Honigmann</title>
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<h1>Amira: Amulette</h1>
<p>By David Honigmann</p>
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<div>The Bosnian singer sets folk songs from Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo in classic jazz</div>
<p>Hard on the heels of the Bosnian singer’s first album, <em>Zumra</em>,  comes this follow-up. Happily, she rejects Balkanisation, setting folk  songs from Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo as well as Bosnia in  instrumentation that would suit the classic jazz songbook.</p>
<p>Bojan Zulfikarpasic’s piano and Nenad Vasilic’s double bass leave  enough space for Amira’s singing to steep itself in melancholy.</p>
<p><strong>Amira</strong></p>
<p><em>Amulette</em></p>
<p>(World Village)</p>
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		<title>Amulette Review in Guardian by Robin Denselow</title>
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<p>Amira Medunjanin – better known by her stage name Amira – is one of  Europe&#8217;s finest and most soulful singers. Born in Sarajevo, she is one  of the greatest exponents of Bosnian sevdah, a mostly slow, sad and  passionate style that is the Balkan answer to the blues or Cape Verdean  morna; no surprise then that she has already been compared to Billie  Holiday and Cesaria Evora. This new set certainly proves she has the  potential to become a global success, and also that she is willing to  experiment. In the past, she has been backed by a band, the Mostar  Sevdah Reunion, and by accordion, but here she is joined by a jazz trio,  led by pianist Bojan Z. The songs are all traditional, mostly from  Bosnia but also from Macedonia and Kosovo, and most are sad-edged love  ballads, with just one stomping comic piece added in. Bojan often sounds  desperate to break away to show off his rapid-fire jazz work, and there  are adventurous sections where the piano and guitar solos contrast  strongly with the vocals, or where echoing effects are added in. But  Amira&#8217;s exquisite, clear and pained singing holds the set together.</p>
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