Goran Bregovic returns on October 6 with the album Three Letters from Sarajevo, tribute to his city in music with Rachid Taha, Asaf Avidan
With Three Letters from Sarajevo, Goran Bregovic delivers one of his most poignant and daring albums. His music by its mixture, its crossing of all the gaiety, all the joys and all the sorrows, all the tears and melancholy is a real rebellion. There is a real discrepancy in his music, he says it himself: it is played as well for funerals as for the warmest weddings. It is a generous music, a popular music, a music of the people, composed and played for and by families, banquets, festivals and events of life. With Three Letters from Sarajevo, he focuses on the three cultures of the city, and its bruised history. Located in the heart of Europe, Sarajevo was successively occupied by the Byzantine, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian empires. For this new recording "Three Letters from Sarajevo", Goran Bregović uses the violin as a metaphorical instrument that coexists klezmer, classical and oriental styles, on three instrumental pieces for soloists from the Balkans, the Maghreb and Israel with guests such as Bebe, Riff Cohen, Rachid Taha, Asaf Avidan.
In video, here is a report on Three Letters from Sarajevo:
We read in Goran Bregovic's biography a very accurate sentence: a piece of Goran Bregović is always identifiable from its first listening and seems to address everyone without distinction of race, sex, age or religion. To listen urgently, this album is a lesson in wisdom and history.
