 Music for the documentary film by director Nikita Dobrynin
portraying the endangered people Votians a finno-ugric people of Russia living in the Leningrad region.

Composed and recorded in Saint Petersburg Russia, Jægerspris Denmark, Strängnäs Sweden. (2022)

JUST Quintet 
Alto flute - Ignat Khlobystin
Bass clarinet - Serafima Verkholat
Violin - Anastasya Martynova 
Cello - Maria Aristova
Piano with extended techniques - Aleksandra Listova

Vocal Soloists
Ksenia Reshetova
Maria Munkhammar
Vigdisje Verhees

Vocal ensemble
Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Ethnomusicologists folklore ensemble
Varvara Afonchenko
Irina Bekhtereva
Ksenia Budina
Julia Karas
Maria Munkhammar

Sound engineering 
Igor Gubarev

Composing, arranging, mixing, production and musical direction by Vigdisje Verhees                    Музыка для документального фильма кино-режиссера 
Никита Добрынин
о уходящем народе "Водь" финно-угорский народ живущий в Ленинградской Области России

VADJA RAHVALAULE - ВОДСКАЯ СЮИТА - VOTIAN SUITE

На горе мак

Жена мужа не взлюбила

Музыка для документального фильма кино-режиссера 
Никита Добрынин
о уходящем народе "Водь" финно-угорский народ живущий в Ленинградской Области России

Music for the documentary film by director Nikita Dobrynin
portraying the endangered people Votians a finno-ugric people of Russia living in the Leningrad region.

Composed and recorded in Saint Petersburg Russia, Jægerspris Denmark, Strängnäs Sweden. (2022)

JUST Quintet 
Alto flute - Ignat Khlobystin
Bass clarinet - Serafima Verkholat
Violin - Anastasya Martynova 
Cello - Maria Aristova
Piano with extended techniques - Aleksandra Listova

Vocal Soloists
Ksenia Reshetova
Maria Munkhammar
Vigdisje Verhees

Vocal ensemble
Saint Petersburg State Conservatory Ethnomusicologists folklore ensemble
Varvara Afonchenko
Irina Bekhtereva
Ksenia Budina
Julia Karas
Maria Munkhammar

Sound engineering 
Igor Gubarev

Composing, arranging, mixing, production and musical direction by Vigdisje Verhees

Koka Kiitus Praise the cook - Похваление Поварихи

Interludija

Mörsjaitk Bride´s Lament - Причитание Невесты

Viinateel Viibinud Why Were You Delayed on the Road - Почему Задержались В Дороге

Prelude to Earth´s creation in a maiden town - Прелюдия Сотворение Мира В Девичьем Городе

kukushka

Bandcamp link: https://mariamg.bandcamp.com/track/lotsva 

In March 2021, after two silent years of pandemic, I began collecting chants from around the world for my new acousmatic work. Exhausted by the long period of isolation and lack of contact, my artistic goal with this project was to bring together the voices of people from different countries, cultures and religions and unite them in my musical composition. In the promotional video I posted on my social media channels, I asked for audio recordings with a smartphone and received 26 songs that I used as source material for the piece. The audio files ranged from intimate solo recordings made in a bedroom, to polyphonic folk songs and chants professionally recorded in a studio, to songs accompanied by various instruments. As I listened to the recordings, I realized that my task as a composer was to find ways to connect the voices that were recorded in different acoustic environments, with different keys, tempos, and languages, and to create a sound world in which they could all coexist. Considering the time in which the recordings were made and the work was composed, I consider this piece a collective prayer, hence the title ლოცვა (Lotsva).
The first version of the piece premiered in Oslo on September 9 and subsequently toured other Norwegian cities and international festivals. In the meantime, I kept receiving new recordings, so I added a new contribution from a different country at almost every performance. The final version of the piece was presented at Kulturkirken Jakob as an 8-channel sound installation as part of VoxLAB VårFEST.

Contributors:
Annie Björkman, Sweden
Aine Eva Nakamura, Japan
Heidi Skjerve, Norway
Line Souza, Brazil
Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Norway
Nigar Gahramanova, Azerbaijan
Åshild Hagen, Norway
Katy Pinke, Israel
Supriya Nagarajan, India
Zosha Warpeha, USA
Silva de Waard, Netherlands
Zoe Perret, France
Verena Merstallinger, Austria
Diego (surname anonymous), Argentina
Tamo Nasidze, Georgia
Falk Rößler, Germany
Ensemble IALONI, Nino Naneishvili, Georgia
Elvic Kongolo Birkebein, Congo
Małgorzata Olejniczak, Poland
David Zurabiani, Georgia
Sajidah Ahmed, Bangladesh
Andrea Silvia Giordano, Italy
Balint Laczko, Hungary
Marija Astromskaitė, Lithuania
Diana Serrao, Portugal
Christopher Manning, US 


Mastering: Balint Laczko
Cover: Midjourney AI
Video: Manuel Madsen (Norsk Komponistforeningen)
Commissioned by: Ny Musikks Komponistgruppe
Produced at Notam

LOTSVA / ლოცვა (excerpt)

Jomba

JUST ENSEMBLE   Ригель Винская - Просто Красивая Женская Музыка   EPICENTROOM

Prelude to Earth´s creation in a maiden town - Прелюдия Сотворение Мира В Девичьем Городе

Vigdisje Verhees

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