BALKAN VOCALS BOOKLET OVERVIEW Balkan Vocals is our richest vocal library yet, this time coming from Southeastern Europe, providing significantly larger and integral content, variety of sounds and tools in search of a user experience full of intricate local taste and color. The content provided is all the way from long form multi-stem songs and improvisations from 6 different countries to loops, phrases and multisample instruments both natural and crafted with legato playability (more on contents & instruments page). As we try hard with every new release to increase playability of the content through instruments, with BV we have added a number of natural and crafted legato instruments for solo performances as well as polyphonic presets to widen the capabilities. These tools will offer you a chance to mix recorded local songs and phrases with playable instruments to form or support your own harmonies. The library is performed by Sumru Agiryuruyen, a master performer with multiple solo and collaborative albums (more about her on the next page). We hope this evocative folk offering will inspire your cinematique and ambient productions as well as dance & experimental stylings. Within this booklet you may find more on the songs & culture, content and instruments. Enjoy! Your friends @ Rast Sound rastsound.com PERFORMER Sumru Ağıryürüyen (singer, improviser, mandolinist) From the 80’s on, Sumru Ağıryürüyen has sung in many projects and performances around the world in styles ranging from traditional to free improvisation. Her solo album, Issız/Solitude features many of her original song-compositions. She released a free improvisation album Sert Sessizler/Harsh Consonants with cellist Anıl Eraslan. Her recent groups are ‘So Duo’ project with Orçun Baştürk and ‘Konjo’, an improvisation band with him and Şevket Akıncı. Recordings with her former groups include two Balkan music albums (Ayde Mori, and Balkan Yolculuğu/Balkan Journey), and Klez-Mez, a klezmer and Sephardic music project. In 2010, she performed and directed programs with outstanding figures in innovative music at the international Ismet Sıral Creative Music Studio. She is also a composer of film scores, including the award winning Sonbahar/Autumn directed by Özcan Alper. In addition, she is a radio programmer, lecturer at Bilgi University and a translator of books such as The Little Prince. She thanks to Brenna MacCrimmon, Muammer Ketencoğlu from whom she had learned these songs and to Orçun Baştürk and Umut Çetin for this performance. Link > sumruagiryuruyen.com SONGS Chereshko, chorna vishnichko - Bulgaria - (Cherry Black Cherry, Autumn Passed without You) Devoiko devoiko - Bulgaria & Macedonia - (Young Girl | Love Song) Dumbala Dumba - Romania - (Gypsy Song) E dymbëdhjetë oda - Albania - (Twelve rooms / What are in rooms? / Lavender Bottles) Idi dago sakash mamo - Bulgaria - (Mom let me have Zora or I will be a monk | Love Song) Ketri Ketri - Hungaria, Gypsy - Love song - (Come with me Ketri / Live with me Ketri) More sokol pie - Macedonia - Hawk drinking from Vardar / Tell me hawk have you seen a hero around Ne pij Nedo rujno vino - Macedonia - ”Don’t drink red wine Neda" Rumelaj - Romania, Gypsy - Girl from Rumelia, You broke my heart pretty Sto e jogreala - Macedonia, Pirin - Beautful Mara, how lovely the moon is, light as daytime, … Trandafir cu creanga-n apa - Romania, Transilvania-Năsăud - “Rose brach touching water“ Tri mi zvezdo - Bulgaria - Women’s song “Three Stars” Jarnana - Albania - Love song - Give me water my love / With what my rose? Jovano Jovanke - Serbia/Macedonia/Bulgaria/Bosnia - the story of two young lovers on the banks of Vardar, who couldn’t be together because of the families CONTENT BV library is offered as WAV files and Kontakt Instruments. - Over 1.6 GB Content (WAV + KONTAKT) - 240 Total Samples - 14 songs and 8 improvisations in 46 stems - 15 Instruments (Natural & Processed Multisample Instruments (including legato), players) - 60 Loops (Natural & Processed), 12 Phrases Kontakt Instruments ( including 3 Natural Legato | 3 Crafted legato) Total of 15 instruments will give you a chance to mix recorded local songs and phrases with playable instruments to form or support your own harmonies. GUI (Main Engine + Effects Engine) CONTACT For any questions, suggestions and offers reach us, [email protected] .