Party: Katarina Juvančič & Dejan Lapanja - Release-Konzert "Hope's Beautiful Daughters"

Party: Katarina Juvančič & Dejan Lapanja - Release-Konzert "Hope's Beautiful Daughters"

HOPE’S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ARE BORN
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. (Augustine of Hippo)

Just two years after their highly-praised debut record Selivke (Migratory Birds), Slovenian singer/songwriting duo Katarina Juvančič & Dejan Lapanja have released a stunning new album: Hope’s Beautiful Daughters (Stray Cat Tunes, 2014). The 9 tracks focus on stories about women and were recorded in collaboration with 13 musicians and storytellers from Slovenia and Scotland.

This Slovenian-Scottish collaboration – the first of its kind – has been initiated by Katarina Juvan & Dejan Lapanja. The pair teamed up with the prominent Scottish musicians and songwriters Karine Polwart, Paul Tasker (Doghouse Roses), Fiona Cuthill (Raintown, Rallion), Seylan Baxter (Tattie Jam) as well as some of the country's finest storytellers (Lawrence Tulloch from Shetland, Tom Muir from Orkney and David Campbell from Edinburgh) to release the album's ambitious content. Regular Slovenian collaborators Matija Kre (fiddle), Klemen Krajc (bass), Gašper Peršl (drums), and the Salamandra Salamandra band also feature, cementing a true cultural exchange.
The music, with a basis in both folk and rock, is built on stories of women set to imaginative, rich and enthralling musical landscapes where fiddles meet roaring guitars, a Highland lass plays the ngoni and where thematically Rosa Luxemburg rubs shoulders with an Inuit woman. Emotionally intense, dramatic singing and extraordinary musicianship combined with the empowering nature of storytelling makes Hope's Beautiful Daughters a unique listening experience.

Katarina & Dejan will be launching the album with their Scottish friends in Scotland this September – in Orkney (Stromness Town Hall – 3/9/14), Edinburgh (Scottish Storytelling Center – 13/9/14), Glasgow (Old Hairdresser’s – 14/9/14) and in Berlin on the 22nd of October (Gruener Salon, as a duo).

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Invited: Robekkah Ritchie, Mijo Biscan, Eli Salzman, Shane Ó Fearghail, Jan Tomšič, Julia A. Noack, Damir Imamovic, Carsten Hein, Bjørn Giesenbauer, Nigel Braddock, Laura Corallini, Alja Knez, Lizzy Scharnofske, Jonas Dahl, Žiga Šercer, Katharina Garden, Christian Baier, Paul Tasker, Shannon Callahan, Rachel Oidtmann, Matafirska Katarina, Ziga Podgornik-Jakil, Brian Smith, Anja Grugel, Susanne Ocklitz, Stefan Höppe, Dejan Lapanja, Doro Gehr, Saba Brahmacharya Bhaktitantra, Stephanie Schultes, Henry Grant, Neža Mreža, Sabine Ercklentz, Mckinley Black, Kai Müller, Ada Okrožnik, Manon Heuer-Kinscher, Uwe Bernhart, Gregorio Pirolini, Hendrik Lehmann, Vincent Long, Rico Schalück, Eloise de Hauteclocque, Laura Bastian, Dirk Homuth, Barbara Povše, Diego Pinera, Franziska Welti, Juli Hell, Farina Deutschmann, Silyano Kralj, Carolina Bigge, Nova Muska, Roswitha Emrich, Ruby May, Matthias F. Brasch, Vondo VondoMachine, David Bloom, Hazel Leach, Norbert Goldenstein, Esther Hoffmann, Karoline Cern, Marcel Krömker, Dharma Mandire, UfaFabrik Berlin, Tom Cunningham, Silke Breidbach, Sonja Hald, Selina Bellini, Beate Brodowski, Miha Poredoš show more »