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birds of unknown

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As the name suggests, the Slovenian trio tends to go beyond any limitations when it comes to transcending genres, inventively exploring freedom in musical creation. Building their oeuvre from their own unique musical expression, which grows from the vast knowledge gathered during their studies abroad as well as diverse collabs, they create peculiar musical figures that emerge from the foundations of jazz, ethno and soul. Their common goal is to find their expression and tell their story.

Blaž Mencinger

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Blaž Mencinger is a guitarist whose talent for writing insightful lyrics led him to the role of singer-songwriter. In the last two years, he began to move away from a relatively acoustic soundscape to a more modern one.

Blaž Švagan

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Blaž Švagan began his musical career at the Karel Pahor Music School in Ptuj, where he studied saxophone, clarinet and accordion. He continued his studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana and also studied jazz in Klagenfurt. He is the author of the Multiversal project and collaborates/has collaborated with many other artists such as Leopold I., Hauptman, 3:rma, Wicked Nation, Popperkeg Orchestra, Ivo Mojzer, Vladimir Kostadinović, Stefan Bartuš, Bojan Krhlanko, Igor Bezget ... In 2016, he formed his own quintet, with which he participated in the Jazzon competition and won the award for the best jazz composition for his original composition Quantum Insomnia.

Blu.Sine

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Blu.Sine are sound images of searching, losing, discovering and accepting, caught somewhere between the eternal melancholy of autumn and the dark, cold modernity.

Blue Train Quintet

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The Blue Train Quintet was formed in 2012 as an extended line-up of the Blue Train duo. The group primarily performs music by John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders, as well as their own original jazz tunes. The Blue Train Quintet has released three CDs.

Bogdana Herman

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Bogdana Herman is the first voice of Slovenian folk song. For more than three decades she has been exploring and reviving Slovenian musical heritage. Whilst mostly performing unaccompanied, Bogdana is always open to various musical collaborations. She has repeatedly worked with a variety of music figures, including Tomaž Pengov, Mira Omerzel-Terlep, Matija Terlep, Jure Tori, Svetlana Makarovič, Lado Jakša, Borut Savski, Vlado Kreslin, etc., etc.

Bojana Šaljić Podešva

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Composer Bojana Šaljić Podešva continues to expand the boundaries of her creative work. After a series of electroacoustic pieces, Podešva has delved into live electronics, exploring its incorporation into stage performance. She has established artistic partnerships with various instrumentalists, including improvisers, and adopted conceptual and experimental approaches to sound, focusing on how it is felt, perceived, understood.

Borghesia

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Formed in Ljubljana in 1982 by former members of the alternative theatre group Theatre FV-112/15, Borghesia is a Slovenian electronic and rock music group. Until the late 1980s Borghesia pursued the path of a multimedia concept collective, founded on the idea of giving prominence to video as a medium equal to sound. The collective disbanded around 1995 and was reanimated in 2009 with a compilation CD comprising tracks from their previous albums. The album And Man Created God, released in 2014 by the American label Metropolis Records, marked the resurrection of Borghesia as a septet with a new, rock-infused sound. Proti kapitulaciji, an album featuring musical settings of poems by modernist poet Srečko Kosovel, came out in 2018.

Borut Kržišnik

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One of Slovenia’s most audacious and innovative new music composers and artists, Borut Kržišnik's style has been influenced by his experiences in the experimental jazz band Data Direct and collaborations with the groups Laibach and Borghesia. Adopting a unique way of composing based on an array of sound processing software, Kržišnik has made a number of solo albums, and wrote music for film, theatre and dance performances, art videos and other projects.

Borut Mori

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After graduating from the Secondary Music and Ballet School in Maribor, Mori studied the accordion at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During this period, he won several prizes at various music competitions. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, Mori started to compose his own music, which he played at various festivals in Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and Slovakia. The duo “Igmar Jenner & Borut Mori” won the “2010 Austrian World Music Award”. His musical works have been recorded by several radio stations. Borut Mori is an accordion teacher at the Maribor Conservatory of Music and Ballet.