Zuzana Homolova

Slovak singer Zuzana Homolová is a renowned folk singer in her country. She has spent the last 30 years collecting, researching and singing deep-rooted Slovak ballads. Her recent album, TVOJEJ DUSI ZAHYNUT NEDAM (I WON'T LET YOUR SOUL PASS AWAY), released in December of 2005, is a refreshing amalgamation of traditional Slovak folk with modern-day sounds. The contemporary elements include trance-like passages. ____________________________________________________________ _________________The material for the new album was selected from distant regions and most often from isolated communities of Slovaks living in Hungary, where the ancient language and also the storyline remained preserved in purest form. The ballads are hundreds of years old and their stories are full of sorrow, unhappy love and blood, with almost mantric melodies. ____________________________________________________________ _________________However dark the stories get, Zuzana sings them with wisdom, charm, grace and reconciliation as only a woman of her experience and strength of enthusiastic mountaineer can do. While keeping the melody and language closest to the archive records, the arrangements range from intimate voice-and-guitar creations through hypnotic minimalism to wild polyrhythmic structures. ____________________________________________________________ _________________Besides her sideman Samo Smetana, Tvojej duši zahynút nedám was co-produced by alternative guitarist and producer Daniel Salontay (www.longital.com), and features some of the finest folk, jazz and contemporary instrumentalists of the country. ____________________________________________________________ _________________The CD booklet contains translations of all lyrics into English and French. ____________________________________________________________ _________________I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4