Savanna Preference

Track from Grand Union Orchestra album 'The Song of Many Tongues', by Tony Haynes, featuring Gail Anne Dorsey (voice) and Rick Taylor (trombone). The composition and its background is discussed by Tony Haynes in his monthly Blog. Direct link: http://wp.me/p1EvPu-uc

By The Waters Of Babylon

Composed Faruk Banjska
Lyrics Bajram Kafu Kinolli
Recorded Homebasesound
Place Kosovo
Gipsy Groove

www.gipsygroovemusic.com

Milice

You are invited into a world between two extremes, a world of Mimika Orchestra's upcoming 5th studio album Medzotermina.

"Zrcalo" / "Mirror" is the third single of Mimika orchestra's 5th studio album Medzotermina, it is a song inspired by two worlds, one of infinite richness and one of poverty. The one of infinite richness lies on fragile foundations held by the overwhelming resource use from the world of poverty. This is represented both through music and through the use of the chakavian dialect of the Croatian language as well as the primordial Proto-Indoeuropean language.

Music: Mak Murtić
Lyrics: Mak Murtić
Directed by: Dinko Ćvorić Doringo, Mak Murtić
Screenplay: Mak Murtić
Prop design: Jiao Guo
Actors: Maja Rivić, Jiao Guo, Željko Agnić, Mak Murtić, Abi Seydi
Camera:  Dinko Ćvorić Doringo, Igor Bogdanović
Video edit: Dinko Ćvorić Doringo
© ℗ 2025, Menart label    

The video was recorded on islands Krk and Prvić in the Kvarner bay. The making of the album was made possible with the support of Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia, the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, Menart label and crowdfunding through the Indiegogo platform.

Special thanks to theatres Gavella, Kerempuh and ZeKaeM for lending the costumes, special thanks to P&B plant nursery for lending the pot (la jarra) and special thanks to Marta Matić and boat Bura (Baška) for taking us to the island Prvić.

Recorded by: Luka Čabo, Mateo Patekar, Vedran Peternel, Marin Hraščanec
Mix and musical production: Vedran Peternel
Master: Miro Piškulić

Artwork: Jiao Guo
Artwork for single cover (based on Jiao Guo's design): Igor Jurilj

Mimika orchestra:

Vocals: 
Maja Rivić, 
Anabela Barić,
Anamarija Žugić

Woodwinds:
Nika Bauman,
Jelena Ilčić,
Marko Lucijan Hraščanec,
Vojkan Jocić,
Marko Gudelj

Brass:
Branko Sterpin,
Valdemar Kušan,
Mate Picukarić,
Matija Mlakar,
Miron Hauser,
Joe Kaplowitz

Rhythm
Hrvoje Galler,
Josip Šustić,
Viktor Slamnig,
Nenad Kovačić,
Mario Petrinjak

Director:
Mak Murtić

Mimika Orchestra - Zrcalo - Mirror

Alfonsina Y El Mar

Dr.Smeđi Šećer - Ča Wah Wah [MIK rare grooves 1965-1981]. 

OŠTIJA! Nakon 4 godine potrage dovršio sam jedan kolaž inspiriran mojim krajem i vrelom raritetnih ploča lokalne festivalske karavane Melodije Istre i Kvarnera. Nakon što sam jednom prilikom ubrao masni 'Ča je more' break na festivalskom singlu proširio sam potragu na ostala izdanja i začudio sam se koliko je bilo funky numera na ovom festivalu u prošlosti. MIK je specifičan festival, ponajviše zbog korištenja lokalnog melosa i poprilično psihodelične istarske ljestvice, a onda i zbog toga što su festivalske ploče izdavane u malim nakladama i mogu se pronaći samo na MIK lokalitetima. Između masnih grooveova i brejkova ima naravno i onih momenata koji čine MIK, MIK-om. Ala šu!

Dizajn Bernard Blašković [Prema rješenju za MIK 71', legendarnog Jugoton cover majstora Ivana Ivezića]

Toni Kljaković - Dobro nam prišli 
Josipa Butorac - On ni tvoj 
Toni Kljaković - Ča je s nami 
Aldo Galleazzi - Kroz godišća ča odzvanja 
Mirko Cetinski - Lipa moja Marija 
Ivo Pincetić - Ja sam čakavac 
Grupa 777 - Ča je more 
Ljiljana Budičin-Manestar - Šparoge smo brali 
Radmila Karaklajić - Di cvita ružmarin 
Ljiljana Budičin-Manestar i Roland Šuster - Oj Labinko i Labinjon 
Aldo Galleazzi - Marija 
Radojka Šverko - Zimmer frei 
Ivo Robić - Kad se doma vrnem 
Milka Lenac - Sirena 
Vilim Ivica - Soldi 
Milka Lenac - Ča mi godi

Dr.Smeđi Šećer - Ča Wah Wah [MIK Rare Grooves 1965-1981]

Pagan II (1996)  	 	

12 mins. for orchestra (3 picc.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - piano, percussion (5) - 16.14.12.10.8)  
First performed by the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Naohiro Totsuka, Tokyo City Opera Concert Hall Tokyo, November 1997. 

A BBC Radio 3 broadcast with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies followed in February 2000 (this recording).     

For me, Pagan II is undoubtedly the most frightening, austere work I have ever composed. It is a personal glimpse into the abyss. The music has a ritualistic feel to it, as if some huge arcane and barbaric ceremony was being witnessed, and the participants of the ceremony were being, in turn, entranced through hypnotic 'dance', and brutalised through music which is violent, both rhythmically and harmonically. Pagan II is not intended to be a desolate pronouncement on our future, rather a glimpse of the unthinkable. Both Pagan I and II can be performed as a complete work. 

PAGAN II (for orchestra (1996)

Ambience demo

Unreleased album recorded with Matthias Daneck on drums and Bernd Haitzler on bass.
Recorded around 1997.


Laura

Stroke Of Midnight.WAV

Mak Murtic is a London and Zagreb based saxophonist, multiinstrumentalist and composer. His main projects are Mimika Orchestra and Truth ≠ Tribe. He also plays in bands Antenat, Maja Rivic Septet and occasionally guests in various other groups. He is a freelance composer and arranger writing for various ensembles, most frequently for the Croatian Radio Television Big Band but also for films and theatres.

Mimika is a London and Zagreb based alternative world concept jazz ensemble.

Truth ≠ Tribe is a Zagreb based alternative world rock jazz quartet.

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