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Part of these collections: Eastern Voices, Holiday. Customers who bought Kitka also bought: American Bach Soloists, Jami Sieber, DAC Crowell, Chris Harvey, Altri Stromenti, Solace, Artemis, Amoeba, Lara St John.
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Kitka Wintersongs
Total time: 52:11 Location of artist: CA, USA
This artist has 2 other albums
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Kitka's popular wintersong concert forms the basis of this album of ancient seasonal songs from Eastern Europe. The ensemble's layered, richly harmonic sounds lends itself perfectly to the Carol of the Bells (""Shchedrik," track 17) and there are several a cappella tracks like "Shen Khar Venakhi," "Otche Nash" and "Dontojno Jest" that are so profoundly beautiful and peaceful that you'll want to play them over and over again. This is one of those albums where we'd definitely recommend purchasing the highest quality audio files (WAVs) over MP3s so that you can really hear all the incredible layering in the arrangments and performances. They take longer to download, but in this case—it's completely worth it.
Kitka has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, Performance Today, Crossroads, John Schaeffer's New Sounds, Hearts of Space, Harmonia, and the Putumayo World Music Hour. Accompanying Kitka on this album are guest artists Rumen Shopov on tambura and bouzouki, Peter Maund on percussion, and Dan Cantrell on accordion. The Kitka singers also accompany themselves on bells, percussion, violin, flute, and tamburas.
| m3u audio streams (if the flash player above doesn't work for you): [hifi lofi] Play all tracks as an m3u audio stream (or xspf, ogg, mp3 file) [hifi lofi] 01-Tec Peleite Zernju Zogtu (Latvia) (3:06) [hifi lofi] 02-Byla Cesta (Moravia) (3:17) [hifi lofi] 03-Domnulet Si Domn Din Cer (Romania) (3:32) [hifi lofi] 04-Zamuchi Se Bozha Majka (Bulgaria) (2:37) [hifi lofi] 05-Alilo (Georgia) (2:44) [hifi lofi] 06-Otche Nash (Russia Bulgaria) (2:26) [hifi lofi] 07-Sculati Gazde Nu Dormiti (Romania) (1:23) [hifi lofi] 08-Betlehem Betlehem (Hungary) (2:46) [hifi lofi] 09-Dontojno Jest (Bulgaria) (4:21) [hifi lofi] 10-Oj Jak Priletaly Taj Dva Sokolonky (Ukraine) (1:59) [hifi lofi] 11-Oj U Horodi (Ukraine) (4:40) [hifi lofi] 12-Bozha Zvezda (Bulgarian Macedonia) (2:10) [hifi lofi] 13-Ayios Vasilis (Greece) (4:15) [hifi lofi] 14-Tsarsko Momche Kon Sedlae (Bulgaria) (2:21) [hifi lofi] 15-Ma Navu (Israel) (2:37) [hifi lofi] 16-Shen Khar Venakhi (Georgia) (4:11) [hifi lofi] 17-Shchedrik (Ukraine) (1:22) [hifi lofi] 18-A v Jerusalime (South Russia Ukraine) (2:24) |
