СРПСКА НАРОДНА МУЗИКА
SERBIAN FOLK MUSIC
RTB, 1981, 2510057
As the cover suggest it, this is an album about the traditional peasant society in Serbia. The recordings were made in the field by Radmila Petrović and produced by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Singing is quite dominant in the life of these villagers and they sing about the main activities and events : work songs, wedding songs, shepherd songs, ritual songs etc... Most of them are performed in antiphony with two groups of women or women and men. Instrumental music is illustrated by one solo on the flute svirala and two sets of kolos on two different types of gajda.
This is the "real stuff'' from the Slavic strata that persisted in Serbia at the time. Petrović who wrote the notes doesn't say when these recordings were made (I'd say the 70s considering the years of birth of the performers between 1905 and 1966).
Track B11 has a lot of saturation that I couldn't avoid (maybe the pressing is at issue ?); generally sreaking the quality of the recording is not perfect but the informants are quite outstanding.
Texts in Serbian an English.
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