“Niz polje idu babo" - from the Unreleased album Every

Barbara Majnarić  - voice
Mara Rosenbloom - piano

Recorded at Sunday Studio, Sv. Nedjelja, Croatia on February 23, 2024
Recording Engineer: Sven Pavolović
Mixing & Mastering: Christopher Botta
Artwork by Barbara Majnarić 
(image taken from “Travel and politics in the Near East” by William Miller)

“Every” is a project by Brooklyn based pianist, composer, & bandleader Mara Rosenbloom and Croatian singer and researcher of traditional music Barbara Majnarić.

"Niz polje idu babo" is a traditional Bosnian song from the Sevdah tradition. Specifically, the song describes a messenger telling a father that his son was captured by the Ottoman army, while the son was hiding and trying to escape. The song expresses the close human relations between father and a son in a time of constant occupation.

The method through which our duo works reflects our hope for what the music will convey. Melodies are learned aurally, practiced in unison, and arrangements are developed spontaneously through improvisation. Listening is understood as not only musical listening (to melody), but listening to feeling and intention, from a belief that listening will result in hearing and understanding each other on a broader human level.

We offer this song now, amidst a multitude of urgent humanitarian crisis - war, genocide, and it’s looming threat of spreading - with the hope that it will remind listeners to stay close to their hearts, and remember that our ability to love and care for one another begins at birth. We each possess the inherent power to stay the course. 

Lyrics:
Niz polje idu babo sejmeni
Sejmenske pjesme babo pjevaju
I tvoga sina Marka tjeraju

Tri bijela dana babo prođoše
Dok tvoga sina Marka nađoše
Dok tvoga sina Marka nađoše

Prokleti da su babo sejmeni
Što tvoga sina Marka tjeraju
Što tvoga sina Marka tjeraju

All Rights Reserved Barbara Majnarić & Mara Rosenbloom

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