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Irena is the first track and the first single from Katarina Juvančič & Dejan Lapanja's new album Hope's Beautiful Daughters (Stray Cat Tunes).

Irena tells a story of a little boy saved by Irena Sendler, a Polish nurse who smuggled more than 2,500 Jewish children from the German-occupied Warsaw ghetto during World War II.

Line up: Katarina Juvancic (music, lyrics, vocals), Dejan Lapanja (guitar, arrangements, mix, mastering), Seylan Baxter (cello), Fiona Cuthill (fiddle), Matija Krečič (fiddle solo), Klemen Krajc (double bass), Gašper Peršl (drums).

Info: www.katarina-dejan.com/hbd


Irena

In Orkney selkie stories are well known, where seals can remove their skins to reveal a human form underneath. They are of great beauty and men will steal a selkie woman’s skin to force her to live with him as his wife, until such time as she finds the skin’s hiding place and returns to the sea. In this variation of the tale it is a human woman who takes control of the situation and chooses a selkie man to be her lover, as her pride has led her to make a bad marriage. This story was collected by Walter Traill Dennison (1825-94), a folklorist from the island of Sanday. He changed the name of the woman as he didn’t want to embarrass her descendants, which included himself. I had it republished in the book ‘Orkney Stories & Sea Legends’ that commemorated the centenary of his death and have told it many times. (Tom Muir)
Hope's Beautiful Daughters CD can be purchased via cdbaby (physical copy or download http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/katarinajuvancicdejanlap2), iTunes (download https://itunes.apple.com/…/hopes-beautiful-daug…/id913448723), amazon (download) or bandcamp (download or physical).


Ursilla - Hope's Beautiful Daughters (Tom Muir & Salamandra Salamandra)

 SISTER SUN
This song depicts an Inuit legend "Sister Sun Brother Moon" that was collected by the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas and published in his monograph “The Central Eskimo” (1888).

Line-up:
Katarina Juvančič – lyrics, music, vocals
Dejan Lapanja – music arrangements, electric guitar, back vocals
Karine Polwart – back vocals
Seylan Baxter - cello
Fiona Cuthill - fiddle
Paul Tasker - acoustic guitar
Gašper Peršl - drums
Klemen Krajc - double bass
Matija Krečič - fiddle pizzicato 

from the album Hope's Beautiful Daughters: http://www.katarina-dejan.com/hbd

Buy from cdbaby, iTunes, amazon, bandcamp

Katarina Juvancic & Dejan Lapanja - Sister Sun

Vsi so venci vejli (Slo trad.)/ All the wraths are white (Slovenian traditional)

All the wraths are white, but mine is green
Because I water it with my tears.
If my tear would fall to the stone,
The stone would break in two, in three pieces.
But my heart won't break in two.

Venci (trad.) w/t Sharat Chandra Srivastava

PISMO V KANADO/A LETTER TO CANADA is based on a letter Katarina’s dying 29-year old great-granny wrote to her husband Franz who was a migrant worker in Canada at the time (late 1920s). Katarina used her great-granny’s words to tell the story of her hardship and love towards her husband, children and the croft.

(Excerpt: My dear Franz, if you only knew how hard it is/ people say I have to write for you/ but I rather see, with all the eyes I have/ that you stay there and earn a bit more/ it would be better for the family)

Pismo V Kanado/Letter to Canada - feat. Sharat Chandra Srivastava

Dejan Lapanja - Appalachian dulcimer, acoustic guitar, electric bas, drums, backing vocals
Katarina Juvančič - vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar, shruti box, Greek flute

We do not own copyright for this song!

All Apologies (cover)

This Slovenian-Scottish version of a Scottish song called Mickey’s Warning/Blue Bleezin’ Blind Drunk was arranged by Karine Polwart and Katarina Juvančič. Abuse of women knows no linguistic barriers and neither does the courage to leave.

Katarina Juvancic - vocal, translation
Karine Polwart - guitar, vocal

From Hope's Beautiful Daughters album (Stray Cat Tunes, 2014). Purchase on cdbaby, amazon, iTunes, bandcamp

Hope's Beautiful Daughters

Svarilo Janezu / Mickey's Warning

Shetland folk tale (Mallie and the Trow) tells about about kindness of heart in the midst of great poverty. Told by Shetland storyteller Lawrence Tulloch, music by Slovenian experimental collective Salamandra Salamandra. 
"I heard it from Stanley Robertson when we were eating breakfast in Bob Pegg's house in Strathpeffer. Stanley had heard it from George Peterson of Papa Stour/Brae but where George got it from I have no idea". (Lawrence Tulloch)
Hope's Beautiful Daughters CD can be purchased via cdbaby (physical copy or download www.cdbaby.com/cd/katarinajuvancicdejanlap2), iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hopes-beautiful-daughters/id913448723), amazon (download) or bandcamp (download or physical, https://straycattunes.bandcamp.com/album/hopes-beautiful-daughters).

Mallie - Hope's Beautiful Daughters (Lawrence Tulloch & Salamandra Salamandra)

DOM

Rodim se iz toče granatne,
Po vojni mi koža diši,
Bežim pred pozabo življenja,
Pred vsem, kar vidijo vaše oči.
TU NISI DOMA!

Dom ne dovoli ostati,
Dom nikogar več ne pozna,
Plazim se skozi puščave,
Moj dom – ožganina sredi srca.

V trebuhu čolna potujem,
Ne vem ne kod in ne kam,
Morje razžrto od besa,
Le v njem se to noč lahko prepoznam.
TU NISI DOMA!

Dom ne dovoli ostati,
Dom nikogar več ne pozna,
Brodim po oceanih
Moj dom je v gobcu morskega psa.


Strah sem, ki riše ga meja,
Hrana steklih sem psov,
Z verige ste jih spustili,
Da k vam ne smem, da ne morem domov.

Recital / Spoken word

Nihče noče zapustiti doma,
edino če te dom ne prežene k obali,
edino če ti reče,
podvizaj se…
reši se…
prosjači,
pozabi ponos,
tvoje preživetje je pomembnejše.

Nihče noče zapustiti doma,
Dokler dom ne postane preznojen glas v tvojem ušesu,
Ki ti govori
Pojdi,
Zbeži od mene,
Ne vem, kaj sem postal,
A vem, da je kjerkoli drugje 
Varneje kot tu.

(Warsan Shire: Home – preveden odlomek pesmi / translated segment of the song)

Dom ne dovoli ostati,
Dom nikogar več ne pozna,
Izgnana iz svoj’ga telesa
Med mano in domom 
spi pekel brez dna.
Med mano in domom, 
pekel brez dna
Med mano in domom, 
Pekel.

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