{"id":2067,"date":"2024-01-29T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zudro.sk\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2024-02-14T23:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T21:42:04","slug":"angrusori-featuring-nils-henrik-asheim-and-iva-bittova-grace-the-grand-junction-at-st-mary-magdalenes-church-paddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stare.zudro.sk\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Angrusori featuring Nils Henrik Asheim and Iva Bittov\u00e1 grace the Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene\u2019s Church, Paddington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ken Hunt witnesses the powerful Slovak-Norwegian orchestra Angrusori in full voice in this most spiritual of settings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L-R: Gjertrud \u00d8kland, Patrik \u017diga, Signe Irene Time and Marcela Dreve\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1 \u2013 Photo credit Ken Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before the audience filed in, the nave of the Grade I listed, neo-Gothic church felt cold and intimidating. Bang on time, the ten members of the mixed Slovak-Norwegian orchestra Angrusori<\/strong>, under Nils Henrik Asheim<\/strong>, took the stage with the Moravian virtuosa of simultaneous violin-vocal extemporisation and dynamics, Iva Bittov\u00e1<\/strong>. Like their Live at Tou<\/em>, the concert\u2019s backbone was a garland of Romani songs which the Slovak ethnomusicologist and film-maker Jana Beli\u0161ov\u00e1 collected from her country\u2019s marginalised Roma minority. They cast off with the slow-fuse, Johnnie Walker-sodden tale, \u2018Sar me kere d\u017eava\u2019 (\u2018When I was going home\u2019). Petter Frost Fadnes<\/strong>\u2019s baritone sax grumble (masterful circular breathing) led into dissonant splashes resolving into a lament. The first off-piste<\/em> departures came with the boisterous \u2018Paprika melali\u2019 (\u2018Dirty paprika\u2019) and, with Bittov\u00e1 as solo vocalist, \u2018Loli Ru\u017ea\u2019 (\u2018Red Rose\u2019). Norwegian vocalist Signe Irene Time<\/strong>\u2019s solo vehicle, \u2018O Verden, hav da gode Nat\u2019 (\u2018Oh World, have a good night\u2019) added a religious note to the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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L-R: Marcela Dreve\u0148\u00e1kov\u00e1 and Iva Bittov\u00e1 \u2013 Photo by Ken-Hunt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy Bell<\/strong>\u2019s instrument separation and sound was a master-class in acoustics. The auditorium\u2019s dimensions and a band of this size presented real challenges. When rhythmist St\u00e5le Birkeland<\/strong> slipped in musical saw, you heard it before you saw it. Bittov\u00e1\u2019s jazz vocalese, bird calls, sounds of nature and vocal improvisations coloured the air. They danced the evening to a close with the celebratory \u2018O po\u0161taris avel\u2019 (\u2018The postman is coming\u2019) from Du\u0161an Han\u00e1k\u2019<\/strong>s communist-era film Ru\u017eov\u00e9 sny<\/em> (\u2018Rosy dreams\u2019). A milestone in Czechoslovak cinema, it portrayed a love story between a Roma woman \u2013 an early film role for Bittov\u00e1 \u2013 and the Gojo<\/em> (non-Rom) postman of the song title. That film was political in 1977. Like Civil Rights-era jazz in the States, the very existence of this music is political in 2024. An evening of utter intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With thanks to Iva Bittov\u00e1 for additional translations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ken Hunt, jazzwise, 26. 1. 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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