KATARINA JUVANCIC & DEJAN LAPANJA (Slovenia) AND THEIR SELIVKE (MIGRANT BIRDS) Selivke (Migrant Birds in English) is a collection of songs about the female gender in all it's strength and vulnerability. Each song tells a tale about women set in different situations and circumstances, using diverse musical ideas. The music is essentially rooted in Slovenian folk forms but weaves all sorts of other music influences. (Cooney) The album has been praised by the audience and critics in Slovenia and abroad. REVIEWS IN UK * Selivke contains an incredible breadth of musical and lyrical ambition. (***** Rock'n'Reel, Issue 63, Eddie Cooney) * Emotionally intense dramatic singing and some really barbed difficult stuff. Outrageous musicianship. It's mighty! (Karine Polwart, UK leading singer-songwriter) * This is a real musical journey that takes you around the globe as it cherry picks what it wants from every country and era that it chooses to. It's all rather astounding. (It's an XXXX Thing blog, UK) REVIEWS IN SLOVENIA (Selection of reviews from the country's leading music critics) * This CD is an extraordinary achievement and proves that Slovenian music scene still has exceptional talents that can produce world-class albums. (Zdenko Matoz, Delo - most relevant Slovenian newspaper) * Katarina Juvancic & Dejan Lapanja's Selivke are setting new standards for Slovenian alternative music scene. (Mario Batelic, Radio Student) * Candidate for the album of the year. (Armando turman, Slovene national radio) * Duo's debut album Selivke is superabundant in the sense of production as well as in the sense of authorship. (Andrej Predin, Slovenske novice - Slovenian best selling daily newspaper) * Album will find it's place in a series of the best Slovenian singer-songwriting works. (Jure Longyka, Slovene national radio) * After nearly 40 years from legendary Toma Pengov's record Odpotovanja, Selivke is a new highlight in Slovenian singing-songwriting. (Varja Velikonja, Nova Muska web mag) CD SELIVKE = MIGRANT BIRDS (translation of the CD booklet & stories behind songs) CD COVER TEXT (translation) Migrant birds travel through a particular area, but do not nest or spend winter there. They travel in a flock, but each on it's own. They fly towards the same destination - towards life. And sometimes towards death. They road towards one or the other is equally long. LAST PAGE OF THE BOOKLET (translation) Migrant birds are women from here and now and from there and then. From the times that might be long gone but we still carry them within ourselves. Their stories are a part of a withheld, repressed or forgotten history and present that has been denied and swept under the carpet. Painful but also redeeming. Without them we would not be here. Without them you and I would not be here. Without them these songs would not be here. Migrant Birds CD is my tribute to female power, courage, wisdom and spirit. And to men who love them because of this. ABOUT SONGS 1. CENJEV CVET/CHERRY BLOSSOM tells a story about a young partisan who convinced an entire wagon of women to jump off a train bound for concentration camp. (Chorus: Jump now, Milka, jump now Mary, don't ask if it's right or if you can, this train won't stop for no one, this train is made for deadly plan) 2. VOLCJE NOCI/WOOLF NIGHTS tells a story of a woman fighting with her demons (of depression, solitude, oblivion). The only way to silence them is by singing. (Chorus: What do angels dream at night? Whose kisses are most tender and light? Burn me and scatter my ashes for the spring, for birds and bottles of wine, let me fall, I've already hit the hard line.) 3. USPAVANKA ZA FRIDE/ LULLABY FOR FRIDAS - Katarina wrote this song in the most strenuous days of her life - to soothe herself and all the women that tremble between life and death. And also for Frida Kahlo. (Chorus 1: May those arms gently rock me/Living waters wash away /Great black hole that swallows limbs/Of a body that no longer screams.) 4. EPITAF ZA LAHKOIVKO/ EPITAPH FOR A LIGHTSKIRT is a posthumous credo of a rather self-indul
