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20 works · 54:29

1 Elesa Traditional (work song) 3:07
2 Mgzavruli Traditional (travelling song) 1:50
3 Batonebo Traditional (lords) 3:18
4 Ali-Pasha Traditional 1:43
5 Shashvi-kakabi Traditional (blackbird and starlet) 4:45
6 Mival guriashi Traditional (I am going to Guria) 2:31
7 Batonebis simghera Traditional (the song for the lords) 2:09
8 Guruli perkhuli Traditional (Gurian round dance) 2:15
9 Asho Chela Traditional 3:38
10 Imeruli Mravalzhamier Traditional 2:09
11 Zhamta da tselta Traditional (epochs and years) 1:49
12 Tskhenosnuri Traditional (horse riding) 1:55
13 Mravalzhamier Traditional 2:46
14 Svanuri perkhuli Traditional (Svanetian round dance) 3:07
15 Mirangula Traditional (the name of a woman-fighter) 2:39
16 Shina vorgil Traditional (round dance song from Svaneti) 2:51
17 Nana Traditional (lullaby) 2:58
18 Keisruli Traditional (Caesar’s song) 3:32
19 Shen khar venakhi Traditional (You are a vineyard) 2:40
20 Adila Traditional 2:47

Unique because of its sound qualities, melodies, harmonies, polyphony and modes, Georgian music was declared by the famous Russian composer Igor Stravinsky to be one of the most powerful impressions in his life – and the spontaneous creativity of Georgian singers a stimulus for the development of modern Western music.

The largely a cappella Georgian songs accompany the most important moments of a villager’s life: birth, the naming of a child, wedding ceremonies, work in the fields and at home, religious festivals and secular celebrations, death and burial, illness and everyday life.

The Australian vocal ensemble Golden Fleece is proud to collect, teach and research Georgian music and here paints a vivid portrait of a rich cultural heritage.

In the artist’s words

The trio Golden Fleece consists of Joseph Jordania, PhD (low voices and percussion) and Nino Tsitsishvili, MA (high voices and chonguri). Both are ethnomusicologists who arrived in Australia in 1995 from Georgia. The third member of the ensemble is German-born Christoph Maubach M.Ed (middle voices and percussion). Christoph is a music educator, who has specialised in Orff music and movement education. He is a lecturer in music education at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.

Golden Fleece was formed in January 1996 in Melbourne. Since then the trio has performed concerts and taught workshops at many Australian music events including the Woodford Festival, the National Folk Festival and the Sydney A Cappella Festival. Golden Fleece has performed abroad in Chicago and Los Angeles and some of their performances have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

— Nino Tsitsishvili, Christoph Maubach, Joseph Jordania

Artists

Golden Fleece

vocals, chonguri, percussion

Golden Fleece is an Australian vocal ensemble which performs, collects, teaches and researches traditional Georgian music. The group takes its name from the well known mythical object the golden fleece.

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Performers

Golden Fleece · vocals, chonguri, percussion
Nino Tsitsishvili · high voices, chonguri
Joseph Jordania · low voices, percussion
Christoph Maubach · middle voices, percussion

Technical credits

Producer Christoph Maubach
Joseph Jordania
Nino Tsitsishvili
Recording Engineer Vaughan McAlley
Venue Move Records Studio

Details

List price: $25.00 AUD
Total playing time: 54 minutes 29 seconds
Release date: 1999
Categories: Cross-cultural, Folk music, Vocal
Genres: World & Cross-cultural, Folk, Vocal & Opera
Catalogue: MCD 127
EAN: 9314574012729

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