The songs included are:

Mravaljamier, Didavoi nana, Mirangula, Gogo, Naninei, Varado, Imeruli Mkhedruli, Lile, Aslanuri Mravaljamier and Shou Nana.

Each harmony is sung individually after a full version is heard. The parts are recorded on 40 separate tracks so you can go straight to the song and part you wish to study.

It is suitable for beginners who do not read music and those who have some experience of learning Georgian songs and want to practise outside choir rehearsals or learn a different part.

Music from the brilliant Sam Lee and Friends who gave a concert at Giving Voice 13, Falmouth April 2015

MOJO ****: It demands patient attention but it’s an album of unusual dignity and immense beauty
Q: A dream-like quality that’s as rare as it is compelling
Uncut: Lee’s album is tremendous, blessed with courtly, uncanny, subtly radical treatments. sounding at once ancient and, in a relatively original way, contemporary.
Songlines ***** Sam’s extraordinary and wonderful debut album.
Guardian **** : an impressively brave and original set
ES ***** : a shining and original talent
Independent **** : Lee’s voice captures the mythic charm of these songs, but it’s his arrangements, at once vivid yet shrouded, which set Ground of Its Own apart
Observer **** : its downbeat, trancelike mood is unwavering, the album has a gentle, insistent power
Independent on Sunday **** : It’s rather good

The new album from singer Sam Lee is a work several years in conception which brings together a multitude of experiences and influences for a musician who has cut an unique course in his artistic development. This 8-track release with mixes done by the legendary John Wood (of Nick Drake fame) comprises material gleaned from years of research and exploration into the forgotten songs and sounds of these Isles. ‘Ground Of Its Own’ brings together songs directly sourced from English Gypsy and Irish and Scottish Traveller communities until now unheard in the wider music world. Sam’s time has been spent learning their characterful and inimitable singing styles, and deep knowledge of the land and the relationships these songs have with their history and ancestry. With this experience at the albums core, many of our indigenous musical principals – such as traditional song having pulse but not always rhythm – have helped create a contemporary idea of how future folk music might sound. What ‘Ground Of Its Own’ sets out is a new method for the interpretation of folk song which seeks to honour this rich native art form whilst marrying it to a resourceful, contemporary approach that explores the tapestries of lost sounds and new sounds that surround us always. Expect compositions filled with Jew’s Harps, Hangs, Hammer Dulcimers, Alpine Horns, Auto Harps, Shruti Boxes and Gas Cylinders amongst many others but ultimately the voice and Sam’s passion for breathing new life in to these jewels on our doorstep. All combined, what is created is an album of depth and vitality that reaches to the absolute heart of the tradition in a respectful but highly modern manner.

In her home country she is known as the ‘Ukrainian Bjork’: in her furious performances the singer, actress and composer Mariana Sadovska crosses all borders: Archaic midsummer night invocations, wedding songs and migrant chants from remote villages of rural Ukraine get a singular turn and transmute into contemporary sound that spans from folk to avant-garde. Creating innovative compositions and arrangements in dialogue with ancient traditions, Mariana Sadovska approaches each piece with a fresh and uniquely personal vision. With a voice of impressive power and range her stage presence is a tour de force that oscillates between fragility and defiance.

VESNA (SPRING) was inspired by Ukrainian Traditional songs and was composed together with her  stage partner,  jazz drummer Christian Thomé .

The vocalist Christiane Hommelsheim presents her first solo album under the mysterious name “Shadows, Fairies and Me”.

On entering the room of “Shadows” one encounters the many voices of Christiane Hommelsheim. You can hear her voice in all shades: it gurgles, whispers, whines, sings and speaks, sometimes alone, then  in duet or with a choir. From a simple melody, a simple rhythm sometimes grows outlandish songs or timeless hymns. This solo polyphony is possible through the virtuoso use of a  Loop sampler. The machine is here an instrument and takes on the role of companion, replacing the band or orchestra. Simultaneously, the loop forms the style of recurring themes like love, loneliness, death. The Loop as an endless loop of life, a media mantra.

Stimulated by intense vocal work in the Roy-Hart method (“The voice is the muscle of the soul”)and in the tradition of American singers like Meredith Monk or Shelley Hirsch, Christiane Hommelsheim looks in her artistic work for the essence of  voice and the relationships between voice, body and consciousness. While others may have made an appearance as a co-performer – David Moss or vocal acrobat duo “Haarmann Hommelsheim”- she now dares with “Shadows” to go it alone, but accompanied by their many voices.

Edelstein founded the ENS in 1997 – the format may look like the instruments associated with the world of rock or jazz but the result is completely different. Comparisons have made from Edgar Varese to Astor Piazzolla, or from Frank Zappa to John Cage, but really what speaks about the music of the ENS is the driving rhythms & the relentless quest for originality.

CD 1: Estudios sobre la Grillo Flcostica: Libro I

1) Second approximation of the History of the Writing of the World
2) Labyrinth of the Crystal of the Cathedral of St Monica of the Venison
3) Moon bleeding Jackson Pollock in spiral
4) The Acoustic Grid in 12 planes
5) Fugue of the Black Christ
6) The River of Juan Laurentino Total Time

ENS are joined by:
Invited Artist:
Deborah Claire Procter (Voice)
Invited Musician:
Martin Proscia (Saxophone)
Special guests:
Ernesto Jodos (Piano)
Marcelo Moguilevsky (Clarinet

CD 2: Estudios sobre la Grillo Flcostica: Libro II
1) STUDY I: First aproximation of the
History of the Writing of the World
2) STUDY II: Crystal labyrinths dense kaleidoscopes
on diminishing perspectives
3) STUDY III: In the world listen to the voice of
the knife that hurts the moon
Rhythms emplacements colors in derivative shades:
the shadow in the perspective of Vitruvio the architect
(STUDY IV, V, VI)
4) STUDY IV: Cristal Sonia), ap 1
5) STUDY V: Cristal S6nico, ap 2
6) STUDY VI: Cristal Sonia), ap 3
7) STUDY VII: Moon bleeding Jackson Pollock
8) STUDY VIII: Moon bleeding Jackson Pollock in circles
9) STUDY IX: Reliefs constrasting impure perspectives memory navigating future fugues

FORMATO: 13 x 13cm I PAGES: 32 I LANGUAGE: English / Spanish I ADDITIONAL MATERIAL: 2 audio CDs

MUSIC, TEXTS, NOTES & DRAWINGS: Oscar Edelstein ©2014 Edelstein © Patina Publisher, Amsterdam

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Tadeusz Kantor’s final and career-crowning performance Today is My Birthday is interpreted as his ‘testament’. The artist died a few hours after the last dress rehearsal for this play. The TV recording becomes the symbol of the Cricot 2 creator’s absence. The unfinished play gathers the characters of his family members transferred straight from his childhood along with friends from his youthful years and figures taken out of the painting frames. they come together on the stage to REMEMBER.

The premiere of Tadeusz Kantor’s last performance, completed by the Cricot 2 members, was held on 10 January 1991 in Theatre Garonne in Toulouse.

The TV recording of this performance made by Stanislaw Zajaczkowski at the Sokol hall in Cracow, May 1991.

With English subtitles.

Colour, 77 minutes

DVD with English subtitles. 81 min.

The world premiere of this performance took place on 2 June 1985 in Alte Giesserei Kabelmetall in Nurnberg. Nearly half a year later the polish viewers could see Let the Artists Die in Warsaw and Cracow. The play is initially set in the cemetary storeroom, which later turns into Kantor’s room of imagination and then into a replica of St. Mary’s Altar by Veit Stoss. In the author’s own words: ‘There is no plot in this performance, there is no play which gives life to this performance, the performance creates itself…’

DVD with English subtitles. 77 min.

DVD is the TV recording of this performance made by S. Zajaczkowski at the “Sokol” Hall in Krakow, December 1983.

DVD with English subtitles. 86 min.

DVD with English subtitles. 68 min.