This work was performed and recorded originally for two guitars and percussions by Dusan Bogdanovic, Miroslav Tadic and Mark Nauseef and included in their album “Yano Mori” in 1999. Through the years the work finds different arrangements and versions for guitar and string quartet, written in 2002, for two guitars, guitar and oud or others. However they all remain with improvised character.

This new version for three guitars is written by synthesizing all existing materials until now and is preserving its improvised identity. Here for the first time is exposed a new third variation, which is written for solo guitar in rubato, unmeasured with melancholic song-like mood in accompaniment of bass and middle voices, evolving or resolving into different harmonies. Dusan Bogdanovic sketched the original melodic line together with the others variations in the year 1999, but it was never published until now.

The work is based on an ancient Byzantine melody by passing through contrasting complex dance rhythms evoking those on the Balkans in a deep, dream-like mood and creates an effect of a myth in storytelling to the listener.

The plasticity of this work opens to the performer new dimensions of improvisation or the creation of more personal, but coherent version.

Dimitar Ivanov, Montreux, Switzerland 2022


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