"Vitar u kosi" / "Wind in my hair" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria electric
(CD "Neću više jazz kantati"/ "I won't sing jazz any more", Aquarius records 2009.)
BAND:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer, arrangements (HR)
Uroš Rakovec / el. guitar (SLO)
Žiga Golob / el. bass (SLO)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)
Joe Kaplovitz / keyboad (HR / USA)
Luka Žužić / trombone (HR)
Branko Sterpin / trumpet (HR)
Mihael Gyorek / alto saxophone (SLO)

more about: 
http://www.tamaraobrovac.com/en/necu-vise-jazz-kantati
www.tamaraobrovac.com

"Vitar u kosi" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria electric

"Šenica" / "Wheat" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac quartet
album "Ulika revival" (unreleased!)
release date: 13.6.2014.
Unit Records, Switzerland

TAMARA OBROVAC quartet
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer
Matija Dedić / piano
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums

With the release of „CD ULIKA" in 1998, Tamara Obrovac Quartet presented for the first time Tamara's new way of thinking and composing which combines inspiration by the local Istrian music and dialect with the universal jazz expression.
The idea of „ULIKA revival" project is to gather now mature musicians from Tamara Obrovac Quartet in order to re-interprete old composition from a new, more mature artistic prospective.

CD "ULIKA REVIVAL" was recorded 15.4.2013. @ ArteSuono studio Udine, Italy!

"Their music represents the very essence of jazz..." (D. Hrvoj)

www.tamaraobrovac.com
Tamara Obrovac quartet: www.tamaraobrovac.com/en/tamara-obrovac-quartet

"Šenica" - Tamara Obrovac quartet ("Ulika revival")

"Črno zlo (radio edit)" / "Black evil (radio edit)" 
(T. Obrovac / M. Rakovac)
Tamara Obrovac quartet
album "Ulika revival"
(Unit records, release date: 13.6.2014.)

Tamara Obrovac quartet:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer
Matija Dedić / piano
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums

With the release of „CD ULIKA" in 1998., Tamara Obrovac Quartet presented for the first time Tamara's new way of thinking and composing which combines inspiration by the local Istrian music and dialect with the universal jazz expression.
The idea of „ULIKA revival" project is to gather now mature musicians from Tamara Obrovac Quartet in order to re-interprete old composition from a new, more mature artistic prospective.

CD "ULIKA REVIVAL" was recorded 15.4.2013. @ ArteSuono studio Udine, Italy

"Their music represents the very essence of jazz..." (D. Hrvoj)

www.tamaraobrovac.com
Tamara Obrovac quartet: www.tamaraobrovac.com/en/tamara-obrovac-quartet


"Črno zlo (radio edit)" - Tamara Obrovac quartet ("Ulika revival")

"Sama" / "Alone" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

NEW CD "Canto amoroso" 
*limited Croatian edition 
Release day: 28.05.2015.

Croatian concert promotion: 28.05.2015.
@ Lisinski concert hall, Zagreb, 20:00h

band:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer (HR)
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandola (SLO)
Žiga Golob / double bass (SLO)
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble - "Canto amoroso" - release tour:
- 28.05.2015. - Zagreb, Lisinski concert hall(HR)
- 29.05.2015. - Samobor Jazz Festival(HR)
- 20.06.2015. - Bjelovar, Eugen Kvaternik Square (HR)
- 20.08.2015. - Pula, Kaštel (HR)
- 21.08.2015. - Opatija, hotel Kvarner(HR)
- 04.09.2015. - Dubrovnik, Park Orsula (HR)
- 05.09.2015. - Jazz festival Herceg Novi (MNE)

"Sama" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble (CD "Canto amoroso")

"Canto amoroso" / "Love song" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

NEW CD "Canto amoroso"
*limited Croatian edition
Release day: 28.05.2015.

Croatian concert promotion: 28.05.2015.
@ Lisinski concert hall, Zagreb, 20:00h

band:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer (HR)
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandola (SLO)
Žiga Golob / double bass (SLO)
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble - "Canto amoroso" - release tour:
- 28.05.2015. - Zagreb, Lisinski concert hall(HR)
- 29.05.2015. - Samobor Jazz Festival(HR)
- 20.06.2015. - Bjelovar, Eugen Kvaternik Square (HR)
- 20.08.2015. - Pula, Kaštel (HR)
- 21.08.2015. - Opatija, hotel Kvarner(HR)
- 04.09.2015. - Dubrovnik, Park Orsula (HR)
- 05.09.2015. - Jazz festival Herceg Novi (MNE)
etc.


"Canto amoroso" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble (CD "Canto amoroso"))

"IstrArmenia" / "Homesick" 
(T. Obrovac, K. Asatrian - lyrics in Armenian)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

NEW CD "Canto amoroso"
(recorded & mastered by Stefano Amerio at ArteSuono Studio, Udine, IT)

band:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer, saxonette (HR)
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandola (SLO)
Žiga Golob / double bass (SLO)
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

* "IstrArmenia" is an imaginary space, always somewhere "in between", for all those longing for their home...

LYRICS:
ach inc anim
ach inc anim mi dard unim

ajs ashcharen
ajs ashcharen het es cunim

sirts ktrin
sirts ktrin hayastanen

eraz anim
eraz anim masis saren

urvakanim
urvakanim es ajs erkrum

erg em asum
erg em asum otar mardun

ach im srtum
ach im srtum mi cankutjun

hayreniqi
hayreniqi ergnem asum

sakamor poj po svitu bilen
lipo aj je hoditi
tilo će poj, ma srcu mome
lipće je doma biti

// ENG:
what shall I do
what shall I do, I'm in pain

this world
this land is not for me

my heart has been taken
my hart has been taken, from my homeland

I have a dream
I have a dream of the Masis mountain

I'm a ghost
I'm just a ghost in this world

singing
singing for foreign people

I have a wish,
a wish in my heart

I'm singing for my homeland
for my homeland

all over the world
it's nice to go
my body will go but to my heart
it's nicer to be home

lyrics by: 
Karen Asatrian (in Armenian) & Tamara Obrovac (in the Istrian dialect)

"IstrArmenia" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble (CD "Canto amoroso")

1. "Se me ra morta privari" / "If death was to trick me"
music: T. Obrovac, lyrics: Silvana Brkarić-Krculić (Istro-Romanian / Žejane and Vlach dialect)

Tamara Obrovac Transhistria ensemble:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer (HR)
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandola (SLO)
Žiga Golob / double bass (SLO)
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

LYRICS:
SE ME RA MORTA PRIVARI

io šteptu ke ver veri
nu poc fârde tire fi
nu poc fârde tire fi

armoniga scutu
de lårgo se åvde.
nu štivu če ra fi,

se me ra morta privari.
se me ra morta privari
ooooooo

tu me cl'emi, te vresi turnå,
Io t-am vut råda ma cmoče...
već nu-i ča šå već nu-i ča šå

io vrut-am ta mâr
tu nu ai o vrut då
docle io-m ganait,
tu n-ai vrut scutå, tu n-ai vrut scutå

se me ra morta privari
se me ra morta privari

lyrics by Silvana Brkarić-Krculić
in IstroRomanian (Žejane and Vlach) dialect

// hr.
AKO ME SMRT PREVARI

čekam te da dođeš,
bez tebe ne mogu biti.

slušam harmoniku,
izdaleka se čuje.
ne znam što bi bilo
kad bi me smrt prevarila.

ti me zoveš,
želiš se vratiti,
voljela sam te,
ali sada ...
to više nije tako.

željela sam tvoju ruku,
nisi je htio dati.
dok sam govorila, nisi
htio slušati.

ako me smrt prevari
ako me smrt prevari

translation into Croatian by Zvjezdana Vrzić

// eng.
IF DEATH WERE TO TRICK ME

I'm waiting for you to come
I can't be without you.

I listen to the accordion
I can hear it from afar.
I don't know what would happen
if death were to trick me.

you're calling me
you'd like to come back,
I loved you
but now...
I no longer do.

I longed for your hand
you didn't want to give it
while I talked, you didn't
want to listen.

if death were to trick me
if death were to trick me

translated by Zvjezdana Vrzić

Canto amoroso

"Se me ra morta privari" - Tamara Obrovac Transhistria ensemble (CD "Canto amoroso")

Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet - "Dvi divojke" / "Two maidens"
LIVE @ MMC Rovinj, February 2017
(music & lyrics: Tamara Obrovac)

Tamara Obrovac - voice, composer
Stefano Battaglia - piano
Salvatore Maiore - double bass
Krunoslav Levačić - drums

*The song is about two maidens, born in the same village Smoljanci, in Istria (Croatia) at the beginning of 20th century. They grew up together and married two brothers. One of them was my grandmother Ulika and the other one was her friend Malija.

Registered by Denis Budim / concert at MMC Rovinj, Feb.2017
Mixed by Bernard Mihalić, Studio Podmornica

"Dvi divojke" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet / LIVE @ MMC Rovinj

LIVE @ MMC Rovinj, February 2017
music: Tamara Obrovac, lyrics: Vladimir Nazor

Tamara Obrovac - voice, composer
Stefano Battaglia - piano
Salvatore Maiore - double bass
Krunoslav Levačić - drums

 *Lyrics are from the poem "Galiotova pesan" by poet Vladimir Nazor.
The song is describing suffering and sadness of a galley slave Ilija, detained and chained in the hull of the Venetian galley, who rows and sings about the sea, his home, his mother, sun and sky, which he will never see again...

//HR: **Pjesma govori o tuzi i patnji galiota Ilije, koji je zatočen i zakovan u trupu venecijanske galije, vesla i pjeva o moru, o svom domu, majci, suncu i nebu, koje više nikada neće vidjeti...

www.tamaraobrovac.com

Registered by Denis Budim / concert at MMC Rovinj, Feb.2017
Mixed by Bernard Mihalić, Studio Podmornica

"Galiotova pesan" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet / LIVE @ MMC Rovinj

Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet - "Mriž zvizdami" / "Interstellar"
LIVE @ INK Pula, February 2017
music & lyrics: Tamara Obrovac

Tamara Obrovac - voice, composer
Stefano Battaglia - piano
Salvatore Maiore - double bass
Krunoslav Levačić - drums

*Tamara sings to her grandmother Ulika and the song is about the love as a fifth dimension, which transcends space and time... is it possible to reach your love ones who passed away through the music and love?

//*Tamara pjeva baki Uliki, a pjesma govori o ljubavi kao petoj dimenziji, koja nadilazi prostor i vrijeme... da li se kroz glazbu i ljubav može doprijeti do svojih voljenih koji su "otišli"?

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"Mriž zvizdami" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet / LIVE @ INK Pula

Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet - "Slavuj piva" 
LIVE @ Croatian national television / February 2017
music: Tamara Obrovac, lyrics: Trad.

Tamara Obrovac - voice, composer
Stefano Battaglia - piano
Salvatore Maiore - double bass
Krunoslav Levačić - drums

*Lyrics: Trad. / inspired by Croatian original traditional singing ("ojkanje") performed by Marija Prelas, from Srijane, Gornja Poljica (HR)

Producer: Saša Wozdecky
Mixed by Bernard Mihalić, Studio Podmornica
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"Slavuj piva" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet / LIVE @ Croatian national television

"Rajranje" - Tamara Obrovac & Georg Kusztrich
(CD "ČRNI KOS" / "DAS LIED DER AMSEL"
Hartman / Kusztrich & Hrvatski centar Beč, 2006.)

Traditional croatian songs from Gradišće (Austria), arranged by Tamara Obrovac

BAND:
Tamara Obrovac - vocal, flute
Georg Kusztrich - vocal, violin
Krunoslav Levačić - drums
Uroš Rakovec - guitar, mandoline
Žiga Golob - double bass
Fausto Beccalossi - accordion
Miroslav Evačić - tamburitza
Gordana Evačić - cymbal

"Rajranje" - Tamara Obrovac & Georg Kusztrich

"Prez besid I" / "No words I" (T. Obrovac)
CD "Ulika", 1998.

Tamara Obrovac quartet:
Tamara Obrovac / composer, voice, flute
Matija Dedic / piano
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums

"Prez besid I" - Tamara Obrovac quartet (1998.)

"Cansoneita" / "A small song" (T. Obrovac)
CD "Ulika", 1998.

Tamara Obrovac quartet:
Tamara Obrovac / composer, voice, flute
Matija Dedic / piano
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums

"Cansoneita" - Tamara Obrovac quartet (1998.)

"Dobra vila" / "The good fairy" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble
(CD "Daleko je..." / "Is Faraway...", Aquarius Records, 2005.)

BAND:
Tamara Obrovac / composer, voice, flute, saxonette
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandolin, mandole
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums 

"Dobra vila" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

"Sama bez tebe" / "Alone without you" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble / époque string quartet
CD "Madirosa", Aquarius records 2011.
www.tamaraobrovac.com

transhistria ensemble:
Tamara Obrovac / voice ,composer
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandolin
Žiga Golob, kontrabas / double bass
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion
Krunoslav Levačić / drums

époque quartet:
David Pokorny / violin
Vladimír Klánský / violin
Víd Petrášek / violoncello
Vladimír Kroupa /viola

"Sama" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble / époque string quartet

"Bratello" / "Dance brother" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble
(CD "Daleko je..." / CD "Is Faraway...", Aquarius Records, 2005.)

BAND:
Tamara Obrovac / composer, voice, flute, saxonette
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandolin, mandole
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums 

"Bratello" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

"TOUCA' LA LOUNA" / " TOUCH THE MOON"
Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble
(CD "Daleko je..." / CD "Is Faraway...", Aquarius Records, 2005.)

BAND:
Tamara Obrovac / composer, voice, flute, saxonette
Uroš Rakovec / guitar, mandolin, mandole
Fausto Beccalossi / accordion
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums 

"TOUCA' LA LOUNA"
music by Tamara Obrovac
lyrics by Loredana Bogliun

LYRICS:
"sentada soun la louna
i vardi al mondo caii
par indreio
douti zura a zlongase par la louna
la to lous meio signur
pasa e despoi distreiga
in sta nustra ciza i pecadi se brouza
in te'l Ave Mareia
ma nui altre do' cumo la piouma
pouzade de noto soul campaneil
sugnein la serrenada beianca
lous de fata ch'a no bes' cema
mai la me zento io' touca la louna"

// ENGLISH:
"sitting on the moon
I watch the world falls backwards
everybody is stretching on top of everybody else
on the moon
your light my lord
passes and then settles
in our church sins
disappear with Ave Maria
but the two of us like feathers
posed in the night on the church tower
we are a white serenade
the light o fan enchantress
that does not swear"


"Touca' la louna" - Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble

Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet 
"Suza sjajna" / "A shiny tear"
(music & lyrics: Tamara Obrovac)

CD "TransAdriaticum" (June 2019, Alessa Records)
https://www.tamaraobrovac.com/en/discography/CD-TRANSADRIATICUM/

Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer (HR)
Stefano Battaglia / piano (IT)
Salvatore Maiore / double bass (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

Recorded at Academy of Music Zagreb
Mixed / mastered: by Bernard Mihalić Studio Podmornica
Produced by: Bernard Mihalić and Tamara Obrovac
Album artwork: Ivan Obrovac / Design: Matija Debeljuh 

***PRESS***

“Tamara Obrovac - a new and exciting acquaintance...with her fine trio, she gave us a supplement of something we didn't know we needed."

Trondheim Jazz Festival - concert review by T. Hammerø, 05/2019 (NO)

____

Apotheosis of sensibility
"The album and the promotional concert are the confirmation of a series of wonders abounding in the music of Tamara Obrovac. Through her music, she speaks about life and easily transforms her personal, concrete experiences into universal truths. With an archaic language, she manages to communicate in a modern and appealing way. This is an apotheosis of Istria, of its melodies and of jazz. A jazz that in Tamara Obrovac combines, seemingly completely distant differences. Above all, this is the apotheosis of a deep and sincere sensibility.”

Jazz.hr Festival - concert review by S. Drach, Cantus, 06/2019 (HR)
____

"On the new CD, the outstanding Croatian singer Tamara Obrovac remains in her specific sentimental space, of course, at the highest level, with a music codex and messages that shy away from the superficial. Obrovac sings about night hags, slaves, pain in one’s soul and the glint of tears. Touching."

E. Weiss, Concerto magazine, 06/2019 (AT)

____

"Published on the international market, the TransAdriaticum CD is a great export product.
TransAdriaticum is a great example of local music that is suitable for world-export, not only because it shares the same values and cultural importance of recognizing a new era but because of its understanding and feeling of both the traditional and contemporary jazz, use of the local “spices” and the brilliant, graceful performance of Tamara Obrovac and her musicians.
Tamara Obrovac has long been performing abroad and the old saying that if you dip your toe into the ocean you are connected to the whole world can certainly apply here. Of course, if such “toes”, her collaborators and her unique vocals, produce such exciting music.
This time with a new set up and a different tone, Tamara again confirmed that she is a leading Croatian musician who regularly achieves a unique “full-on” contact with her collaborators, which consequently produces such feats."

H. Horvat, Večernji list, 08/2019 (HR)

____

The strenght and the greatness of an individual musical expression
"An excellent contemporary jazz album that will surely arouse great interest among jazz lovers around the world..."

D. Jagatić, Nacional, 09/2019 (HR)

____

“On this “Transadriaticum” album, Tamara Obrovac again confirmed her unique contact with her musicians and once again proved as a great example that even local music can become a product of worldwide export! Beautiful!”

P. Španko, SKJazz, 09/2019 (SK)

____

"The selection of collaborators, the identity of this quartet, the search for balance in the dramaturgy of the compositions as well as the right balance of power in the subtlety ratios of the expressiveness and unbridled improvisation are the reasons why Transadriaticum may be one of Tamara’s best albums ever.”

HRT - Croatian radiotelevision, 10/2019 (HR)

____

"TransAdriaticum exudes with refined interactions, Tamara’s interpretation and an extraordinarily nuanced overall dynamics of songs that - though mostly sad and introspective - radiate an extraordinary passion for life."

M. Batelić, Radio Študent, 10/2019 (SLO)
____

www.tamaraobrovac.com

TransAdriaticum

Suza sjajna

Buy CD

"Suza sjajna" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet

Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet 
"Muora" / "Night hag"
(T. Obrovac, M. Rakovac)

CD "TransAdriaticum" (June 2019, Alessa Records)
https://www.tamaraobrovac.com/en/discography/CD-TRANSADRIATICUM/

Tamara Obrovac / voice, composer (HR)
Stefano Battaglia / piano (IT)
Salvatore Maiore / double bass (IT)
Krunoslav Levačić / drums (HR)

Recorded at Academy of Music Zagreb
Mixed / mastered: by Bernard Mihalić Studio Podmornica
Produced by: Bernard Mihalić and Tamara Obrovac
Album artwork: Ivan Obrovac / Design: Matija Debeljuh 

***PRESS***

“Tamara Obrovac - a new and exciting acquaintance...with her fine trio, she gave us a supplement of something we didn't know we needed."

Trondheim Jazz Festival - concert review by T. Hammerø, 05/2019 (NO)

____

Apotheosis of sensibility
"The album and the promotional concert are the confirmation of a series of wonders abounding in the music of Tamara Obrovac. Through her music, she speaks about life and easily transforms her personal, concrete experiences into universal truths. With an archaic language, she manages to communicate in a modern and appealing way. This is an apotheosis of Istria, of its melodies and of jazz. A jazz that in Tamara Obrovac combines, seemingly completely distant differences. Above all, this is the apotheosis of a deep and sincere sensibility.”

Jazz.hr Festival - concert review by S. Drach, Cantus, 06/2019 (HR)
____

"On the new CD, the outstanding Croatian singer Tamara Obrovac remains in her specific sentimental space, of course, at the highest level, with a music codex and messages that shy away from the superficial. Obrovac sings about night hags, slaves, pain in one’s soul and the glint of tears. Touching."

E. Weiss, Concerto magazine, 06/2019 (AT)

____

"Published on the international market, the TransAdriaticum CD is a great export product.
TransAdriaticum is a great example of local music that is suitable for world-export, not only because it shares the same values and cultural importance of recognizing a new era but because of its understanding and feeling of both the traditional and contemporary jazz, use of the local “spices” and the brilliant, graceful performance of Tamara Obrovac and her musicians.
Tamara Obrovac has long been performing abroad and the old saying that if you dip your toe into the ocean you are connected to the whole world can certainly apply here. Of course, if such “toes”, her collaborators and her unique vocals, produce such exciting music.
This time with a new set up and a different tone, Tamara again confirmed that she is a leading Croatian musician who regularly achieves a unique “full-on” contact with her collaborators, which consequently produces such feats."

H. Horvat, Večernji list, 08/2019 (HR)

____

The strenght and the greatness of an individual musical expression
"An excellent contemporary jazz album that will surely arouse great interest among jazz lovers around the world..."

D. Jagatić, Nacional, 09/2019 (HR)

____

“On this “Transadriaticum” album, Tamara Obrovac again confirmed her unique contact with her musicians and once again proved as a great example that even local music can become a product of worldwide export! Beautiful!”

P. Španko, SKJazz, 09/2019 (SK)

____

"The selection of collaborators, the identity of this quartet, the search for balance in the dramaturgy of the compositions as well as the right balance of power in the subtlety ratios of the expressiveness and unbridled improvisation are the reasons why Transadriaticum may be one of Tamara’s best albums ever.”

HRT - Croatian radiotelevision, 10/2019 (HR)

____

"TransAdriaticum exudes with refined interactions, Tamara’s interpretation and an extraordinarily nuanced overall dynamics of songs that - though mostly sad and introspective - radiate an extraordinary passion for life."

M. Batelić, Radio Študent, 10/2019 (SLO)
____

www.tamaraobrovac.com

Muora

"Muora" - Tamara Obrovac TransAdriatic quartet

"Prez besid 2" / "No words 2" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac quartet - LIVE!
@ Koper (SLO), 13.02.2012.

BAND:
Tamara Obrovac / voice, flute
Matija Dedić / piano
Žiga Golob / double bass
Krunoslav Levačić / drums
__________________________
audio by Radio Koper/Capodistria


"Prez besid 2" - Tamara Obrovac quartet (LIVE)

"Cansoneita" (T. Obrovac)
Tamara Obrovac quartet
New album "Ulika revival" 
(Unit records, CH)
release date: 13.6.2014.

Tamara Obrovac quartet:
Tamara Obrovac (voice, composer) /
Matija Dedić (piano) /
Žiga Golob (double bass) /
Krunoslav Levačić (drums)

With the release of „CD ULIKA" in 1998., Tamara Obrovac Quartet  presented for the first time Tamara's new way of thinking and composing which combines inspiration by the local Istrian music and dialect with the universal jazz expression.
The idea of „ULIKA revival" project is to gather now mature musicians from Tamara Obrovac Quartet in order to re-interprete old composition from a new, more mature artistic prospective.

CD "ULIKA REVIVAL"  was recorded 15.4.2013. @ ArteSuono studio Udine, Italy
...and released 13.6.2014. for Unit records, Switzerland

"Their music represents the very essence of jazz..." (D. Hrvoj)

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CD "Ulika revival" PRESS REVIEWS:

"The revival is a great success, a masterly collection of strikingly affecting songs. Obrovac sings in an Istrian dialect, with a style that draws on Istrian folk heritage as well as on contemporary jazz: the result is a powerfully emotive vocal that draws the listener in to the moods and images of the songs whether or not they share Obrovac's understanding of the words (helpfully, an English translation is provided in the liner notes)."
-- ALL ABOUT JAZZ, Bruce Lindsay, July 2014, USA --

"For many, Croatian singer Tamara Obrovac is still "a new voice", even though "Ulika revival" is her ninth record - and what a record it is! One of exceptionally creative and picturesque sound. With her quartet, the Istrian singer - with 12 songs she has written herself - evokes charming and colourful sounds that blend both the dialects and melodies of Croatian music with contemporary jazz.
In every single moment of listening to the record it is wonderfully evident how these different influences blend into quite exciting and playful pieces of music.
Excellent!"
-- JAZZTHETIK, 2014, Germany --

"Tamara Obrovac is quietly and secretly grown into one of Europe's greatest  ethnic jazz singers and stands at par with for example Savine Yannatou or Elina Duni.
Basically melancholic, her music simultaneously impresses with inner strength and passion that brings with it the story of the mentality of an entire region."
-- JAZZ PODIUM, Volker Doberstein, 2014, Germany --

"On light-footed rhythmic base carried by Žiga Golob on bass and Kruno Levačić on drums, Obrovac can impressively demonstrate her interpretations conveyed by warm colors of Istrian tongue. Her text interpretations and eloquent singing blend with her very specific jazz-scat in native idiom through her own concept of storytelling and intense recollection of personal experiences which touches the hearts of her listeners - one successful revival that even after fifteen years can convey timeless "spirit" of these works."
-- CONCERTO MAGAZINE, tHo, 2014, Austria --

etc.

"Cansoneita" - Tamara Obrovac quartet ("Ulika revival")

The composer, singer and flutist Tamara Obrovac from the Croatian city of Pula is one of the most impressive artists on the Croatian music scene. Her ethnically inspired contemporary Mediterranean jazz is influenced by the particular musical and dialectal traditions of her homeland, the Croatian coastal region of Istria.
She writes lyrics in local dialects, of Slavic and Romanic origin, and sings in other ancient and endangered Istrian dialects.
In addition to her international concert activities, she composes music for theatre and film, and she has received many awards for her work, including 8 Croatian national discographic awards Porin (Croatian Grammy).

Her main bands, the international Transhistria Ensemble (Histria is an ancient name for Istra), and her Quartet incorporates elements of jazz, Istrian and Mediterranean music, and many elements of modern music skilfully and naturally, and her utterly original and autochthonous music goes beyond time and geographical boundaries, thus becoming a universal artistic message which establishes Tamara Obrovac as an exceptional artist who has created her own unique musical expression."

“She tornadoes through the stage leaving in her wake an ever increasing number of fans...”
—  Birgit Gabler, Concerto magazine 

"...Obrovac indigenous music found attentive ears in the audience. Her charismatic voice and moves captured quickly the audience..."
—  Mehdi El Mouden, All About Jazz 

"With her brilliant performance she has presented the best of the Mediterranean; the melancholy of fado, the lightness of tarantella and the lyrics in Croatian have melted with the fury of the accordion player Fausto Beccalossi so organically that the following concert of Richard Galliano Piazzolla Forever Septet seemed nothing but perfectly boring."
—  Josef Engels, Jazzthing 

"Cansoneita" ("A Small Song") performed by Obrovac with the Transhistria Ensemble, is a floating, beguiling track, with spacious drumming, tuneful accordion and a delicious lead vocal by Obrovac. 
(BBC Radio 3 World music Awards nominees compilation review)
—  John L Walters, The Guardian 

"She is an audience-captivating phenomenon. With her trio she brought a different kind of energy and soon had the crowd pleading for more. Obrovac has a phenomenal stylistic range and has the temerity to want to take her trio into any number of moods."
—  Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News 

“Musical Document from Eternity of Universe" - In the interpretations included in this album ("Madirosa"), Tamara artlessly and logically unites a serious approach and joke, tradition and modernity, classical music and ethno, formal demands and freedom, melody and improvisation, regional and middle-European.”
—  Davor Hrvoj, CD review

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