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Music for grown-ups (AARP Blog), Shopping List: The New and the Notable >>
Kitka, "The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between Two Worlds" (Diaphonica)
The nine-woman Bay Area vocal ensemble Kitka's new album is inspired by the unsettled spirits known to Slavic folklore as Rusalki, the souls of women whose unjust deaths are lamented annually in the Ukraine. Assisted by Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska, Kitka's moving theatrical song cycle strongly resembles Bulgarian folk music in its close, keening a cappella harmonies. This music, however, has taken on additional weight from the Chernobyl disaster, which has added environmental import to Rusalka rituals.
--Richard Gehr 11/27/07 >> go there
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