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"Medna Roso" is a glorious recording featuring BBC Jazz Award-winning and Mercury nominated artist Kit Downes on organ, New Zealand saxophonist Hayden Chisholm – known for his distinct microtonal tuning system – contributing on alto saxophone, shruti box, analogue synthesizer, throat singing, and vocals from PJEV, a female a cappella vocal quintet from the Balkans, that preserves and cherishes traditional vocal music from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The traditional songs on the album represent these different regions, reflecting the distinct vocal styles that have developed over the passing centuries.

The combination of sounds echoed mightily and timelessly in the ancient acoustics of the Agneskirche, where the ensemble performed this spellbinding sold-out concert at the Cologne Jazz Week Festival in September 2021, which lives on now thanks to this pristine production issuing on Red Hook Records. 


"Medna Roso will be on this year’s list, no doubt, and deserves a very wide hearing among those likely to respond to its special properties."
The Blue Moment - Richard Williams

"An extraordinary choral, saxophone, pipe organ work recorded at Cologne's neogothic Catholic Agneskirche 18 months ago. The work relishes a process of transformation by crossing from both the temporal and spiritual spheres into an entirely other worldly dimension."
Marlbank - Stephen Graham

"Medna Roso documents a revelatory encounter between improvising musicians and Balkan vocalists in a Cologne church. ...an exquisite recording..."
The New York Review - Ted Reichman

"This is a remarkable, stirring piece of work that works right into your bones."
Dusted - Jennifer Kelly

"... your mind will be truly blown."
Songlines - Tom Newell

credits

released May 5, 2023

PJEV:
Jovana Lukic choir director / voice
Zvezdana Ostojic voice
Gloria Lindeman voice
Lana Hosni voice
Julijana Lesic voice

Kit Downes: organ

Hayden Chisholm: alto saxophone, shruti box, analogue synthesizer,
throat singing


Recorded: 1 September 2021, St. Agnes Church, Cologne
Engineer: Jonathan Hoffmann
Mixing & mastering: Alex Bonney
All photos: Niklas Weber
Cover Art: Sam Winston
Design: Matthew Appleton

Produced by Sun Chung


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Red Hook is a label launched in 2020 by former ECM producer Sun Chung. The label is a place for encounters, where musicians have opportunities to interact with creative minds, share insights, explore and carve new adventurous ways of creative wayfaring. Red Hook aims to dissolve musical boundaries through the interweaving of musical genres and the exploration of intercultural collaborations. ... more

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