Tamara Obrovac quartet feat. Matija Dedić "Ulika" revival

Tamara Obrovac quartet, 15 years after...
band reunion, and re-interpretation of old compositions from a new, more mature artistic prospective...
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NEW CD MADIROSA RELEASED

TAMARA OBROVAC

transhistria ensemble / époque string quartet  "MADIROSA"

 

jazz, ethnic, classical.. unique musical journey…

New video!

New video will be on the site soon...monday afternoon, director Matija Debeljuh was shooting in Istrian National theater new video for Tamara's  song "Dube sanjan / Daydreaming", from upcoming album Madirosa. Check the photos from video recording (text is on Croatian, sorry:)

IstrArmenia ensemble

new collaboration/project :

Tamara Obrovac & Karen Asatrian  IstrArmenia ensemble

Austrian premiere:
12.02.2011. 20.30 h /Jazz club Klagenfurt
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Croatian premiere:
14.02.2011. 20.00 h INK Pula

 Croatian singer and armenian piano player together in new project, meeting point of Armenian and Istrian spirit...

new song / video within the multimedia project PANPHONIA ISTRIANA/ISTRIAN POLYSOUNDS

" Se me ra morta privari/Ako me smrt prevari/If death tricks me" [HQ]

..listen the sound of this extraordinary archaic dialect!

www.panphonia.com

istrapanphoniacom

Spain, mini tour

TAMARA OBROVAC transhistria ensemble,mini tour, Spain, Barcelona / Alicante, 15/16.10.2010

15.10.2010. - transhistria ensemble, Festival Ribermusica, Barcelona

16.10.2010. - transhistria ensemble, Aula de Cultura de la CAM, Alicante

film Piran Pirano

The film Piran Pirano for which Tamara wrote music, is finished...     piran/pirano

Album "I won't sing jazz any more" got PORIN (Croatian national music award)

Tamara & electricians awarded for album "I won't sing jazz any more" ...

IstraIrska ensemble

new band/concert

TAMARA OBROVAC 

IstraIrska ensemble

Concert INK (Istrian National Theatre) Pula 14.02.2010. 20h

Valamar jazz festival

Tamara is the artistic director of the new jazz festival, VALAMARJAZZ, which will have its first edition in June 2010 in Poreč.
The sponsors of the festival are Riviera Poreč and Valamar Group.

08.10.2009.

05.10.2009.

Tamara and Rambo (Amadeus) had a successful concert at the packed Boogaloo Club in Zagreb… Both bands played like crazy, there was some funk, jazz, turbo-folk, ethno and other both musical and non-musical genres and styles… and Rambo and Tamara made some new hits on the spot…

25.09.2009.

Presently working on her second multi-media DVD within PANPHONIA ISTRIANA project, recording at Žejane and Šušnjevica.

Golden Seagull Award for the best remake of Runjić’s song "A vitar puše"

01.09.2009

Golden Seagull Award for the best remake of Runjić’s song “A vitar puše” was given to Tamara Obrovac and Matija Dedić at the 5th Runjić’s Evenings Festival

Recorded the video for the song “Turbo Funk”

01.07.2009.

Recorded the video for the song “Turbo Funk”, from new album "I won't sing jazz any more" in collaboration with Rambo Amadeus, (parody on turbo-folk, a popular music sub-genre, that originated in Serbia, Balkans, during early 1990s, combining elements of folk music with modern pop/rock/techno genres), often performed by female performers with "specific" look..

that's why I'm a blonde with long fingernails… haha

Tamara is a guest performer on the album of the Popeye band

Tamara is a guest performer on the album of the Popeye band, in the song entitled “Delaj delaj” which is also the single announcing the new album. She performs the rapper mummy… with curlers in her hair…

audio: POPEYE Delaj delaj

27.01.2009.

10.07.2009.

Tamara performed at the promotion of the new album of the Popeye band at Uljanik Club in Pula, in a rather interesting stage appearance… with an apron and a ladle…

March 30, 2009.

The new CD, „I won't sing jazz any more“, Aquarius Records... we've plugged in... Tamara and her electric Transhistria band play Istrian soul and funky FEATURING the special guest-star, turbo tzar RAMBO AMADEUS on Turbofunk...

January 23, 2009.

I've been away for a while, haven't had the time to let you know what I've been doing, I'm looking for a secretary... there, the electric album is almost finished, will be published by Aquarius Records, the single „I won't sing jazz any more“ is already around, the CD should be released by the end of February, and the concert preview will be held at INK (Istarsko narodno kazaliste) Pula, on February 21 at 20 hours. Our motto: lets plug in and play some Istrian funk... followed by concerts in other cities... but more about it some other time... ciao!

January 21, 2009.

This singer has broadened her horizons onto multimedia and together with Matija Debeljuh, director and video artist, she promoted the first multimedia DVD dedicated to Istro-Roman dialect with the multimedia play PANtheatron on January 21 at INK Theater. This DVD is a part of the years-long project of revitalization of Istrian dialectal and musical tradition, PANPHONIA ISTRIANA, Istrian polyphony. The project will produce one multimedia DVD every two years, dedicated to one of the many Istrian dialects of Slavic and Roman origin. The leading idea is: dialect is the language of emotion, emotion is the language of the soul, soul is the language of a culture. Soon, you can visit the website www.panphonia.com where you will see a great deal of the material presented on the DVD.

January 18, 2008.

Except the electric version, your favorite singer is preparing a new acoustic surprise... it is the cooperation of Transhistria Ensemble with the Czech string quartet EPOQUE. The new material is ready and it includes jazz, Mediterranean ethno and classical music. Istrian preview of the project will be held on February 14 at INK Theatre in Pula and on February 15 in Rovinj, and the Croatian preview will be held on May 13 within Jazz Cycle at Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, when we'll most probably record the live DVD as well. See you...

July 25, 2007.

Your favorite singer has gone electric and already performed at several concerts (at Novigrad Music Nights Festival and at the opening of Motovun Film Festival for example) and released the single with the song „I won't sing jazz any more“... believe me, there was some serious Istrian funk and some real dancing... CD will be out by the end of 2008...

June 2, 2007.

At the VI. Festival of Bosnian Drama, held in Zenica in 2007, Tamara Obrovac received the award for the best stage music for the original music in the production entintled „The Embraced“, written by Miodrag Žalica, directed by Robert Raponja and performed by Sarajevo War Theatre SARTR, http://www.bnp.com.ba/festival/nagrade.php
Your favorite singer has won again... ha, ha...
Bosnians love me, and I love them in return, even though my car was broken into the last time I was in Sarajevo...

10.02.2007.

NEW AWARD FOR THE BEST THEATRE MUSIC

23rd National theatre festival in BiH brought for Tamara Obrovac another award: for the best music in play "Them embraced...". Script written by Miodrag Žalica, directed by Robert Raponja, in production of SARTR theatre, Sarajevo War Theatre.

23.01.2007.

“Tuca’ La Louna” on Putumayo World Music's new compilation

Women of the World: Acoustic
Tamara Obrovac among world’s leading female artists
“Tuca' La Louna” (Touch the Moon), the song from one of Tamara's latest CD's "Is Faraway…" is released on Putumayo World Music's new compilation called Women of the World: Acoustic. The album is an exploration of contemporary acoustic music by some of the world's leading female artists and also PWM's tribute to International Women’s Day.

In “Tuca’ La Louna,” Tamara sings of her people’s quest for hope and salvation.

22.07.2006.

Hoooray, THE SINGING LADY HAS WON THE GOLDEN ARENA AWARD FOR MUSIC FROM THE MOVIE “WHAT IS A MAN WITHOUT MOUSTACHE", HE, HE, HE…nothing can stop us now… victory 1:0, at home. :)

14.07.2006.

My dear fellows, the singing lady has "worked off" two new festivals this summer:

NOVIGRAD CITTANOVA MUSIC NIGHTS July 14th and 15th, and first ROVINJ WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL July 21st and 22nd. There was a lot of good music there, and two very different festivals… From glorious Los Van Van and Angela Brown in Novigrad to excellent Tera Folk and Mazde Carpate in Rovinj. I did succeed to take a swim few times and sun bath a bit, but now, it's time to get to work again and again…Transhistria has also had few concerts in the country and abroad. At the end of August and beginning of September, there will be few concerts in Croatia, and afterwards in Germany again…(see under concerts section)

31.05.2006.

With two new concerts, on 29th of May in Eisenstadt and 30th of May in Vienna, Transhistria promoted another new CD.

As was already mentioned, we worked on the project in Eisenstadt, or as we say Zelezni, in Austria, treating some folk songs from Gradišće, interpreting them in artistic way (this lady made the arrangements and composed 2 new songs with text from Viliam Pokorni, Slovak from Gradišće.) Original versions of these songs were chosen and recorded by Gegi Kustrić, actor and musician, Croat from Gradišće. The language and dialect are fantastic, archaic, saved in its original shape. We produced the CD in ORF studio (Austrian national television); on excellent equipment with even better tone master Karlo.

19.05.2006.

USA tour of Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble
19th May, 9 p.m. – Hot House, Chicago
21st May, 7,30 p.m. & 9,30p.m. – Joe's Pub, New York

Tamara's cultural potential was recognised by the artistic management of the most eminent American jazz clubs: Joe’s Pub in New York hosts artists such as Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Bebel Gilbert, Alicia Keys and David Grey, and Hot House in Chicago is unavoidable intersection of the World's movements in domain of the World music.
Apart from music from the album All fades away…and the new soundtrack It's Faraway…, Tamara presented, for the first time, compositions made in cooperation with The Istro-Romanian Language Documentation Project, linguistic project created in New York with an aim of preservation of Žejan language, the language that has been used in Istro-Romanian enclave in Istria for centuries.

23.04.2006 .

At this year’s Porin ceremony, 13th ceremony of discography awards” Porin 2006”, Tamara Obrovac received 3 Porin awards:
- for the best female vocal performance, with the song “Is faraway… tarantella" from her new album “Is Faraway…”
- for the best album of ethno music, also with her new album “Is Faraway…”
- and for the best vocal cooperation with Tedi Spalato, the song “You and me” from Tedi’s new album “Hungry for the beauty, thirsty for the love”.

01.04.2006

One festival, four days, 30 musicians, 40 000 votes and only one
LADY-MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR!
Tamara Obrovac won the award of The best Croatian female musician of 2005 at the festival Golden koogla 2006, which took place from March 30th until April 2nd in Zagreb. Awarded prize was for the best female vocal of 2005.