DERT – premiere of full album of choir music entirely recorded on smartphones

BABA: DERT endemic songs
double album and CD (https://soundcloud.com/user-381450973/dert-endemic-songs-sample)
*world premiere

We are happy to present our new release DERT endemic songs.
The DERT project was created entirely during the rule of the coronavirus and is unique experiment. The rehearsals were conducted at home, individually, occasionally online. The performers used smartphones to record their own sections, which we later stitched together into the present album.That is why this album is a remarkable document of this special period, dedication and focus of singers.
The recordings we created gave sound to the mysterious power and spirit of the music, captured the lost moments in time, drove away the gloom, uncertainty and fear. Above all they are a testament to this time.
CD 1/ 1: commisoned project for female voices, composed by Finnish author Tellu Turrka on texts by Karmina Šilec.
CD 2/2: reading of libreto for BABA project

(https://www.carmina-slovenica.si/en/audio-webshop/dert2_/)

Music by: Tellu Turrka
Texts by: Karmina Šilec
performed by: CHOREGIE – new music theatre and Nežka Struc
production: Carmina Slovenica

BABA and DERT:
Slepica, Medi and other characters could be over a hundred years old. They were deeply asleep for a long time, but are awake now. They were summoned from the past and from afar. They stare at us with their piercing eyes, as if they were half alive and half dead. Their stories are an echo of howling remorse that the heroines awaited for years, decades, even centuries in invincible despair of forced muteness. Their tempo is different, time flows at a strange pace: decades for the birth of a son, a few days for a fatal shot, one day for the victory in the greatest war, a moment only for a wedding, a dance, or a funeral. The milk of ancient melodies and epics drips from the narrative like the greatest miracle, like a healing topping for women whose tied breasts and mouths are drained from fatigue.
We share habitats and habituses with the heroines of DERT in extended time through the experience of touching and overlapping on some edges, and thus creating a secret commitment to belonging – the same coordinates, sometimes the same codes. We belong to what we understand, both present and absent. They are our rearview mirror – everything seems to be close here and far behind simultaneously. Real and unreal at the same time.
DERT is a canvas on which the contents of the consciousness of our society, its fears, beliefs, doubts, states, questions, problems, pleasures, the history and the present, behaviors and nonsense, desires are projected.
DERT is also reminiscent of a deadacholic social narrow-mindedness that condemns every step and every action; it sang the last praises to the heroines with a vocabulary adorned with wonderful notions such as tradition, family, heroism …, and hid behind them primitivism, mythomania, misogyny, as well as perversion and lies.
It reminds us of who created and buried the heroines – sworn virgins, virdžinas – Liljana, Suni, Lindita.