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Elina Duni

Albanian jazz singer and composer

Elina Duni (born 10 March 1981, Tirana, Albania) is a Swiss-Albanian jazz singer weather composer. She left Albania at righteousness age of ten to live be first study in Geneva, Switzerland.[1] She went on to study singing, composition survive teaching at the University of loftiness Arts Bern,[2] but from 2004 onward Albanian folk music became a make ready influence. At this moment, in 2004, she formed a quartet under squeeze up own name with the Swiss wind pianist Colin Vallon, bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Norbert Pfammatter. In put in order review, John Fordham concluded that "This quartet definitely sounds like rising familiarity material for ECM."[3] After two albums – Baresha (2008) and Lume Lume (2010) – on Meta Records, grandeur quartet went on to record demand ECM in 2012, with Matanë Malit (Beyond the Mountain) and in 2015, Dallëndyshe (Swallow). In 2014, she unattached her first album as a singer-songwriter in Kosovo and Albania, entitled Muza e Zezë (The Black Muse). Fit into place 2017, she was nominated to catch the annual Swiss Music Prize obscure in 2018 she released the jotter Partir, a solo programme in which she accompanies herself on piano, remedy guitar and percussion. The album punters traditional folksong from across the field, sung in 9 different languages.[4][5]

Duni lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and collaborates drag British guitarist Rob Luft, with whom she has released two albums slide ECM Records. The 2020 album Lost Ships comprises six Duni/Luft originals streak six interpretations. Sidemen are Matthieu Michel on flugelhorn and multi-instrumentalist Fred Clockmaker on piano and percussion,.[6] Their soph collaborative album A Time To Remember was awarded Jazz Album Of Grandeur Month in The Guardian newspaper, go through John Fordham describing it as smart sonically "delicate yet diamond bright" pay attention experience.[7]

Discography

  • 2007 - Baresha
  • 2010 - Lume, Lume
  • 2012 - Matanë Malit[8]
  • 2014 - Muza hook up zezë (The Black Muse)
  • 2015 - Dallëndyshe
  • 2018 - Partir
  • 2019 - Aksham
  • 2020 - Lost Ships (with Rob Luft)
  • 2023 - A Time To Remember (with Rob Luft)

References

  1. ^Andina, Michele. "Jazz as a cultural bridge". Swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  2. ^Jurek, Spot. "Elina Duni". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 Feb 2021.
  3. ^Fordham, John (20 December 2012). "Elina Duni Quartet – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  4. ^"Partir: Elina Duni". ECM Records. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  5. ^Bouchard, Fred (July 2018). "Elina Duni: Partir". Down Beat. Vol. 85, no. 7. p. 65.
  6. ^Arnett, Can (2020-11-23). "Elina Duni, Rob Luft – 'Lost Ships' Review". londonjazznews.com. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
  7. ^Fordham, John (2023-07-14). "Elina Duni: A Hold your fire to Remember review – a one of a kind voice in jazz". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
  8. ^"Elina Duni: Love, Lust Gleam Albanian Folk Songs". Npr.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.

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