Today we are releasing the first single titled Taranto and announcing a new upcoming digital release of the second full-length album “El Shatt” by the World music / Ethno ensemble Vladimir & Kalafat, whose main initiator is also the vocalist Vladimir Mićković. The announcement of the album is accompanied by the first single Taranto.
Vladimir & Kalafat, with the concept album “El Shatt” embarked on an imaginary journey from the Dalmatian town of Komiža, through the Italian ports of Bari and Taranto to the Egyptian Port Said, and especially to the desert area of El Shatt near the Suez Canal on the Sinai Peninsula. El Shatt – Canvas City, as it was called by Dalmatians, is a complex of refugee camps in which from February 1944 to March 1946 the evacuated population from Dalmatia stayed. The first transport of refugees by ship to Egypt started from the Italian city of Taranto. The album El Shatt is not only a journey through time and civilization but also a warm intimate reminiscence of Nona Mladineo from the beautiful Komiža, a portrait of Ranko Marinković and a dedication to diligent hands. The Egyptian El Shatt is part of the collective memory in Dalmatia.
‘Taranto’ @ PDV Bandcamp
Pre-order “El Shatt” @ PDV
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Vladimir Mićković
Six songs, rooted in the traditional music of the Mediterranean in filigree performances of musical jewelers, piano essayist Gabriel Prusina, magical clarinetist and accordionist Meho Radoović, enthusiastic cellist Oliver Djordjević, pastel nostalgic vocalists Inge Bodul Pranjkovic and Ivana Marijanović, Moroccan Berber of Essaouira Mohamad Ait-Mghar on the rebab, Mirza Redžepagić who invokes the wind of Gibla on the Arabic oud, the sensitive Dino Šukalo on the glissentar and the lyrically moody Dinko Šimunović on the double bass.