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“my approach towards music
went from jazz standards,
through my own compositions,
to my finding of an original
expression by connecting the
language of the folk music
of my homeland (Istria, Croatia)
with the rhythms and
improvisation typical for jazz,
so jazz is my freedom
and my roots are my inner
truth”
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discography
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Tamara Obrovac, "the Sorceress from Istria":
Tamara Obrovac is one of those musicians to whom jazz is a path to
understanding music as a whole.
Furthermore, it has led her to an intensive investigation of her own regional
music awareness, so she offers us a new musical journey through the Istrian
and Mediterranean spaces and times. Her homeland Istria, a beautiful
Croatian region and a North Adriatic peninsula, is particular for its musical
and dialectal tradition which is the creative force of Tamara's works.
Her utterly original and autochthonous music goes beyond time and
geographical boundaries, thus becoming a universal artistic message which
establishes Tamara Obrovac as an exceptional artist who has created her
own unique musical expression.
Tamara's unique music, played by the excellent musicians from her
international Transhistria ensemble is a genuine musical mohair which
skillfully and naturally incorporates the elements of jazz, Istrian and
Mediterranean folk music, and many elements of modern music, while
Tamara's voice is equally impressive when she sings lyrics and when she
performs vocalizes, thus turning itself into an additional instrument.
In addition to her international concert activities she composes music for
theater and film and she has received many awards for her work.
International recognition came also through the nomination for the
BBC Radio 3 World Music awards (European music and Audience Award)
Discography:
Tamara’s bands:
Tamara Obrovac Transhistria
Ensemble
Transhistria ensemble &
Epoque string quartet
(latest cd “ Madirosa”)
Tamara Obrovac quartet
Transhistria Electric
(cd “I won’t sing jazz any
more”)
Tamara Obrovac & Karen
Asatrian IstrArmenia
ensemble
Author CDs: Triade, 1996; Ulika, 1998; Transhistria, 2001; Sve pasiva/Everything
fades away, 2003; Daleko je/Is faraway, 2005; Neću više jazz kantati/I won’t sing
jazz any more, 2009, featuring her new band “Transhistria electric with a
fresh fusion of Istrian ethno and funky and soul music; and the latest
Madirosa, 2011, in collaboration with the Czech Epoque string quartet.
Through her albums, Tamara profiles her own auctorial approach and creates
a unique artistic form which, inspired by the Istrian and broader
Mediterranean tradition, establishes “the personal poetics of the author”.
In 2006 she also released the CD entitled Črni kos / Das lied der amsel
(Extraplatte, Vienna) with renditions of the Croatian national songs from
Gradišće, Austria.
Tamara Obrovac’s song “Tuca’ La Louna” is on the compilation Putumayo
““Women of the world” Acoustic” 2008.
In 2007, she launched PANPHONIA ISTRIANA, a years-long project of
revitalization of dialectal and musical heritage of Istria, in which the
obsoleteness of the dialectal and cultural tradition is connected with
the modern multimedia expression.
Since 2010, she is the director of Valamar Jazz festival Poreč, Croatia
TAMARA OBROVAC transhistria ensemble / www.tamaraobrovac.com / tamara.obrovac@gmail.com
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photo by T. Genc, 2011.
photo by A. Orel, 2007.
photo by T. Genc, 2010.
credits • festivals
Adriatico Mediterraneo festival, Ancona, 2012, Italy
Lüneburger Jazz-Night, Lüneburg, 2012, Germany
TRT TÜRK TV show ("With The Language Of Music"), 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
La Fira Mediterrania de Manresa, 2011, Spain
International Valamar Jazz Festival Poreč, 2011, Croatia
White Field Jazz Festival, Bijelo Polje, 2011, Montenegro
Aula de Cultura de la CAM, Alicante, 2010, Spain
Festival Ribermusica, Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona, 2010, Spain
European Summer of Culture, Fellbach, 2010, Germany
Sängerkrieg Festival, Eisenach Jazzclub, 2009, Germany
Coesfeld Castle, 2009, Germany
Balkan Traffik Fest (feat. Transbalkanika ), Bruxelles, 2009, Belgium
Alpsklang Festival, Merano, 2008, Italia
MESS Festival, Sarajevo, 2008, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Nebo Festival, transhistria electric, Zagreb, 2008, Croatia
Karlsplatz, Artistic Zone, Vienna, 2008, Austria
Maritime Fest, Brest, 2008, France
HKD Jazz Time Int. Festival, transhistria/epoque, Rijeka, 2008, Croatia
Jazarella International All Women Festival, Zagreb, 2008, Croatia
Dimithriathess Festival, Thessaloníki, 2007, Greece
Špancirfest , Varaždin, 2007, Croatia
Baladoor Jazz Festival, Koper, 2007, Slovenia
Etnofest, Palić, Subotica 2007, Serbia
Sängerkrieg Festival, Coesfeld Castle, 2006, Germany
EBU Festival, Kaustinen, 2006, Finland
Le Gipfel du Jazz Festival, Freiburg, 2005, Germany
Nei suoni dei luoghi, Festival, Monfalcone, 2005, Italy
Crossroads Festival, Krakow, 2005, Poland
Saulkrasti Jazz, Saulkrasti, 2005, Latvia
World Music Festival,Vienner Neustadt, 2005, Austria
World EXPO 2005, Japan
Glatt und Verkehrt Musikfestival , 2004, Austria
Interzone Music Festival, Novi Sad, 2004, Serbia
Talos Jazz Festival, Ruvo di Puglia, 2003, Italy
Anteprimamundus Fest, Reggio Emilia, 2003, Italy
Musikfest Waidhofen/Thaya, 2003, Austria
Dionysia Festival, Rome, 2003, Italy
European Jazz Joint Ventures, Graz, 2003, Austria
Akkordeon Festival,Vienna, 2003, Austria
Strictly Mundial Festival, Marseille, 2003, France
Sarajevo Jazzfest 2002, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Etno Jazz Festival, Kumanovo, 2002, Macedonia
The Sounds of Neighbourhood Festival,Vienna, 2001, Austria
Balkan Square Festival, Thessaloniki, 2001, Greece
Festival della Valle dei Nuraghi, Sardegna, 2001, Italy
Festival Sconfinando, Sarzana, 2001, Italy
Druga godba, international festival, Ljubljana, 2001, Slovenia
Music Bienalle, Zagreb, 2001, Croatia
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10 International Jazz Days, Zagreb 2000, Croatia
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• tamara.obrovac@gmail.com • credits
“my approach towards music
went from jazz standards,
through my own compositions,
to my finding of an original
expression by connecting the
language of the folk music
of my homeland (Istria, Croatia)
with the rhythms and
improvisation typical for jazz,
so jazz is my freedom
and my roots are my inner truth”
biography
news
concerts
multimedia
discography
film & theatre music
projects
bands
photo
press
Tamara’s bands:
Tamara Obrovac Transhistria
Ensemble
Transhistria ensemble & Epoque
string quartet
(latest cd “ Madirosa”)
Tamara Obrovac quartet
Transhistria Electric
(cd “I won’t sing jazz any more”)
Tamara Obrovac & Karen
Asatrian IstrArmenia ensemble
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clubs & venues
Kulturforum Amthof, Feldkirchen, 2012, Austria
Jazz club Circulo, Madrid, 2011, Spain
Jazz Club Klagenfurt, 2011, Austria
EXTRA 3 feat. Tamara Obrovac, Jazz Point Linz, 2010, Austria
Divača, , Jazz hram, transhistria ensemble, 2010, Slovenia
Zagreb, club Aquarius, transhistria electric, 2009, Croatia
Ljubljana, elektrana acoustic quartet, 2009, Slovenia
EXTRA3 feat. Tamara Obrovac, Klagenfurt, museum, 2008, Austria
Kostanjevica na Krki, transhistria/epoque, 2008, Slovenia
Karlsplatz, Artistic Zone, transhistria, 2008, Vienna, Austria
Casa della musica, transhistria ensemble, Trieste, 2008, Italia
Lisinski Concert Hall, transhistria /epoque, Zagreb, 2008, Croatia
Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Subotica, theatres, and venues, 2008, Serbia
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, transhistria electric, 2008, Slovenia
Ethnoinsula ciklus, Manzioli Pallace, Izola, 2008, Slovenia
Feldkirchen 2007, Kulturforum Amthof, Austria
Motovun filmfest, transhistria electric, 2007, Croatia
Čakovec, 20.07, Stari grad, 2007, Croatia
Vukovar, Danube River, Hubert von Goisern
Makes the Rivers of Europe Sound, 2007, Croatia
Arsenal Club, Zadar, 2007, Croatia
Istrian National Theater, Pula, 2007, Croatia
MOCVARA Club, Zagreb, 2006, Croatia
Eisenach Jazzclub, 2006, Germany
Coesfeld Castle, 2006, Germany
Stuttgart Laboratorium, 2006, Germany
Hot House, Chicago, 2006, USA
JOE’S PUB, New York, 2006, USA
Porgy & Bess, Vienna, 2000/2004 Austria
Joe Zawinul’s Birdland,Vienna, 2004, Austria
Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Crossroads Festival, Krakow, 2005, Poland
Liize Jazz Club, Riga, Latvia - 2005
Vienner Neustadt, 2005, Austria
EXPO, Aichi, 2005, Japan
Molto vivace concert series, A38 Club, Budapest, 2005, Hungary
North Westphalia concert tour, 2003, Germany
(Bonn, Hagen, Köln, Wuppertal, Dortmund, Bremen,
Aachen, Kempen, Hamm, Siegen)
Bologna, Piazza Santo Stefano, 2003, Italy
Concerti scaligeri,Verona, 2003, Italy
Tafelhalle, Nuernberg, 2003, Germany
Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, 2003, Slovenia
Half Note Club, Athens, 2001, Greece
Terre ritmi suoni, concert season, Palazzolo sullí Oglio, 2001, Italy
Balkan Horses International Project, Sofia, Bulgaria
EXPO, Hannover, 2000, Germany
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Tamara Obrovac quartet: The unique synergy of music and emotion/ Freedom and improvisation
Yesterday, the Lisinski Hall enjoyed jazz to the full.
It was a love at first sight. The rarely seen synergy of musical virtuosos and relaxed Tamara was completed by the
whole-hearted energy they got in return from the grateful audience.As often at Tamara’s concerts, “Crno
zlo” (“Black Evil”) threw the audience into ecstasies. … What gives an additional quality to this song is Tamara’s
very own approach to jazz: through “Crno zlo”, her fascinating ability of improvisation manifests itself in all its
beauty , enrapturing the audience,making it laugh and thrilling it completely.
Z. Jagodić. index.hr , Thursday, February 16, 2012, Croatia
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Tamara Obrovac at Lisinski Hall
Undoubtedly the greatest personality among Croatian female jazz vocalists, charismatic Tamara Obrovac, gave us
an extremely successful concert, not only because of the packed house and the applause which lasted forever…
(her eyes filled up and she said “this is one of the things in life worth living for”), but also because of her
interpretation and spontaneity, her honesty and utter exposing in front of the audience to which she gave herself
to the full, through the music which should no longer be put into any slot – it is world jazz, period! Several
encores, happy audience, happy Tamara… the concert worth of every praise. Such amount of inspiration,
improvisation, “conversation” and interaction between the artists on the stage is rarely seen. “Ulika Revival”
relives to the full and is right on target. A win-win situation for all parties.
Dinko Husadžić Sansky , jazz.hr February 16, 2012, Croatia
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• Tamara Obrovac Enchanted the Audience at Valamar Jazz Festival 2011.
With her Transhistria ensemble and the string virtuosos of Epoque Quartet, Tamara Obrovac has once again given
an unforgettable concert interwoven with jazz, classical music and a pronounced Mediterranean spirit… the live
performance offered a great dialogue of the Czech string players and Transhistria ensemble musicians and
enchanted the audience in the Euphrasian Basilica, the same way that the album Madirosa enchants its listeners.
Tibor Toromanović, Glas Istre, daily paper, July 08. 2011, Croatia
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• The second part of the evening was marked by the unbelievable easiness with which
Tamara Obrovac adapted her voice and changed its timbre
Review of Transhistria ensemble concert at Felbach, Germany, July 31, 2010
The second part of the evening was marked by the unbelievable ability of Tamara Obrovac to adapt her voice and
change its timbre with amazing easiness. Screaming and cooing, tremolo and panting, whispering and squeaking –
the voice of Tamara Obrovac always sounds clear; even the short sound check between the two tunes seems like
a recitative; in the long improvisations of her fellow musicians, she embarks into a dialogue with their
instruments, following their timbre.
The old folk songs and dances, the lyrics written in the obsolete Roman dialects – the buried treasures from
Tamara's homeland Istria are joined with the pure jazz rhythm. The band consists of masterfully chosen group of
young virtuosos, who bow with the full respect to their female leader, but also help each other in mutual
cooperation. A beautiful, intense evening, the evening that remained intense even in its quiet moments, which was
recognized by the audience and rewarded accordingly with a thundering applause.
Felbacher zeitung, August 8, 2010, Germany
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• Tamara Amadeus, Rambo Obrovac Bogaloo club Zagreb / Concert review (Transhistria Electric)
Tamara Obrovac has again proved she is a real master in eclectic fusion of musical genres. With her fascinating
voice and singing skills, she easily goes from jazz and funk to ethno, canzone and rock, with a series of witty
announcements and multicultural patterns in which she, being Istrian, gets incredibly along …
Aleksandar Dragaš, Jutarnji list daily paper, October 2009, Croatia
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• Tamara Obrovac’s Volcanic Energy
… at the opening of All Women Jazz Festival in ZeKaeM Theatre, temperamental Tamara has shown that she can
easily compete with the greatest names of today’s music. With Transhistria ensemble which never loses its
inspiration and the desire for improvisation, Tamara sounded fresh and extremely challenging again…
It was as if she were deconstructing each composition and word in a more radical (and musical) way, thus turning
the inaugurating concert of an established, élite jazz festival into a Biennale-like laboratory of the new sound and
stage performance which was at times deeply moving.
With Tamara Obrovac, all genre slots have long been rejected. What remains is the exciting voice which stretches
with the volcanic energy across the whole musical universe.
Denis Derk, Večernji list, daily paper, Zagreb, April 14, 2008, Croatia
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• Powerful Tamara Obrovac and Dianne Reeves
concert review Transhistria ensemble (Jazarella
International All Women Jazz Festival Zagreb, Croatia
Tamara Obrovac is the first Croatian artist presented at this festival.
She and her Transhistria Ensemble who performed at the opening of the festival have proved their skills are on an
equal footing with those of the world stars.
As a singer, Tamara Obrovac has presented large vocal capabilities and a powerful voice, which sometimes assumes
the role of additional musical instruments, knowingly using a sense of improvisation; as a composer, she has
definitely developed her own genuine musical language.
Davor Hrvoj, Novi list, April 2008, Croatia
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• Pastoral life and freedom A concert of Enver Izmailov and Tamara Obrovac / Freiburger Jazz –Gipfel
Tamara Obrovac was a true discovery and undoubtedly the peak of the whole festival. This Istrian singer surprised
the audience with her independence and unpretentious presentation on the stage. Constant returns to the
freedom of jazz enable her to live out her fascinating individuality. She uses her voice boundlessly, going from the
low alto to the high soprano, adding the unique vibrations by tapping on her neck with her palm. At the stroke of
midnight, a thunderous applause of thrilled audience resounded through the music hall in Freiburg.
Reiner Kobe, Badische Zeitung, September 12, 2005, Germany
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• Saulkrasti jazz - festival 2005
The audience of the Saulkrasti jazz festival was mostly impressed by the Croatian so-called “ethno-jazz“ band
Tamara Obrovac & Transhistria Ensemble, whose performance was marked by confidence, energy and a
completely different music mentality that the one to which the domestic audience is accustomed.
Ikars Kublins, Apollo, August 2005, Latvia
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• Second evening of the International festival of modern music, INTERZONE 2004,
marked by Tamara Obrovac & Transhistria Ensemble
As it could have been expected, the epithet of the main attraction of the evening, and perhaps of the whole
festival as well, pertained to Tamara Obrovac & Transhistria Ensemble.The basis of their music is Istrian national
heritage, interpreted in the manner of jazz, classical music, even tango, but in an peculiar manner which could
hardly be defined in terms of the established genre qualifications.
Dynamic and melodious. Loud as much as gentle, warm and sophisticated. Not pathetic whatsoever. Occasionally
ferocious, but not aggressive. Workmanship of the band members, their attractive solos and above all the endless
vocal abilities of Tamara Obrovac herself, her charm and unrestrained, honest, witty and seductive performance
will remain etched on the memory for a long time.
D. Domanovic, Gradjanski, Novi Sad, May 25, 2004, Serbia
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• Obrovac unites tradition and modernism, Performance in Schwarzer Hase, Beutelsau
What is hidden behind the term “Mediterranean-Balkan Ethno jazz” is the fresh, unexhausted and authentic music
of Tamara Obrovac. It is influenced by local tradition and folk music, but the oriental sounds and a bit of rap music
can be heard as well, with a great dose of modern Jazz harmony that interconnects it all.
Conventional roles of instruments are abandoned and that contributes to the weightless and circular music style,
but all 5 musicians are still connected in a strange and inexplicable way.
With her markedly nuanced and strictly controlled voice, Tamara Obrovac (Croatia) overpowers even the hardest
sound of rap, as well as oriental melizmatic melodies or simple full-tone parts of the songs from her homeland.
The music of Tamara Obrovac is fresh and unexhausted exactly because it connects the old traditions with
modern elements …
Schwabische Zeitung, October 2006., Germany
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• Obrovac - DOBROJAZZ!
She tornadoes through the stage leaving in her wake an ever increasing number of fans.
Birgit Gabler, Concerto magazine, June 2003, Austria
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Touching the moon without dancing with the wolves
Was that jazz or folk? In any case, it was experience.
Tamara Obrovac and her Transhistria Ensemble were guests in Martinikirche in Siegen. Ecstatic, brave,
melancholic, all together – strong experience. “This evening, no one had to dance with the wolves”.
Amazing tones were healing the ears of domestic audience. We heard modern Croatian music, cheerful, enriched
with jazz and traditional sound. She enchants Siegen audience as well, with her humor, expressive music, presence
and a joy of her music. To touch the moon with Tamara’s music is very easy indeed.
Siegener Zeitung, December 2003, Germany
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Gorizzia jazz festival, Tamara Obrovac quartet
Histrionic and direct in her relationship with the public, a perfect master of the scene, Tamara Obrovac has
proven that she has found and achieved a very original stylistic objective in which a deep knowledge of jazz
perfectly blends with the rediscovered cultural heritage of Istria.
G. Almerigogna, Gorizia, Il Piccolo, March 1999 Italy
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• “Musical Document from Eternity of Universe” CD Madirosa, Aquarius records 2011
Although the music on Tamara’s seventh album will thrill you right from the very first hearing, its true value, like
the value of the most valuable achievements of the world art, will be disclosed only when you hear it again and
again, and you will simply keep listening to it time after time because every new listening will reveal some new
filigree details, new sounds, new discreet interactions, new emotions, new refinement, new charm... In the
interpretations included in this album, Tamara artlessly and logically unites a serious approach and joke, tradition
and modernity, classical music and ethno, formal demands and freedom, melody and improvisation, regional and
middle-European.
Davor Hrvoj, June 2011, Croatia
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• “Challenges never end” CD Madirosa, Aquarius records 2011, Croatia
With Tamara Obrovac, one is never bored. After all musical surprises and changes, this tireless artist with
fascinating creative tempo and even more fascinating creative collaborations and results has now offered us an
album decisively marked by the sound and atmosphere of a string quartet. Classical music has thus officially
entered into the world of Tamara's music in this undoubtedly most complex and most ambitious album, entitled
Madirosa, from which an attentive listener will get a myriad of different amazing details.
Mix Epoque String Quartet's excellent sense of dramatic with Transhistria Ensemble's subtle improvisations, add
the singer with striking emotiveness and even more amazing expressiveness, and you get Madirosa: the album
which demands a lot, but gives even more, and most of all shows that the creativity of Tamara Obrovac and her
five-man squad has no limits.
Pavle Vukšić muzika.hr June 2011. Croatia
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• Healing, intimate sailing of Tamara Obrovac through the Mediterranean and its historical
multiculturality CD Madirosa, Aquarius records 2011
On her eighth album entitled Madirosa, Tamara and her multiethnic Transhistria Ensemble supported by the Czech
string quartet Epoque give shape to the primeval spirit of the Mediterranean as the cradle of European culture. In
Tamara's Mediterranean spirit, culture and world, there is space not only for blending of jazz and Istrian ethno to
which we are accustomed in her distinctive artistic style, but also for numerous other influences, from those
Italian and Portuguese to those Spanish and Arabic, and for a series of musical epochs, from renaissance and
baroque to post-modern crossovers of jazz and classical music and that which we clumsily refer to as world
music.
Madirosa is seemingly a simple and unassuming, but actually a multi-layered, virtuoso album recorded in only two
days in studio, compared to which the music of even Gotan Project and Madredeus sounds shallow and onedimensional.
Aleksandar Dragaš, Jutarnji list, daily paper, June 2011. Croatia
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• The most intriguing album of Istrian musician “Neću više jazz kantat”/ “I won’t sing jazz any more”
Several remarkable new songs, the title song which is bound to be a hit, the imaginative remake of the Istrian folk
song ”Predi šći moja” and the extended eight-minute-long version of the old favourite ”Črno zlo” have acquired
the real funky groove into which the experienced jazz virtuosos such as the drummer Kruno Levačić, the
Slovenian guitar-player Uroš Rakovec or the American piano player Joe Kaplowitz have fitted remarkably well.
“I won’t sing jazz any more” is the most intriguing and the most complex album by Tamara Obrovac and if it
reaches the international stage, the final result could be much more impressive than the nomination for the BBC
World Music Award.
Ilko Čulić, Jutarnji list, daily paper, April 2009. Croatia
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• Lady kanta funk (Lady Sings Funk), the CD of the year!
“Neću više jazz kantat”/ “I won’t sing jazz any more” is what it is – by far the best album in the whole music
career of Tamara Obrovac – primarily because of the great material in which it is difficult to say what is better: the
new compositions of the Istrian diva or the superb, fully thought out versions of her older works. Transhistria
Electric and the Iron Istrian Lady have made the album of the year, probably of the five years, after which the band
leader may not sing jazz any longer – but don’t worry: you should hear how she sings funk!
Pavle Vukšić, Muzika hr. Internet portal, April 2009. Croatia
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•Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble – «CD «Daleko je../Is Faraway…«
In 70 minutes of her new album, Tamara has shown she is completely ready to compete with the world stars. …
With her new material, she successfully got out of the narrow frame of the local tradition.
By using some Italian ethno-elements, she has entered into a much broader concept of neo-traditional
Mediterranean music properly placed in many world music catalogues…“
Ilko Čulić, Jutarnji list - daily paper, January 2006., Croatia
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•Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble – «CD «Daleko je../Is Faraway…«
Everybody who has ever heard any Tamara's concert or is familiar with the general places in her song-book is well
acquainted with the exceptional «performances» of her fellow musicians: the exceptional guitar player Uroš
Rakovac, the extraordinary bass player Žiga Golob, the genius on drums Kruno Levačić and the extraterrestrial
accordion player Fausto Beccalossi. Together with Tamara’s amazing voice, but also with her instrumental tripping
on flute, Transhistria ensemble, which has tested itself at numerous live performances could finally make a huge
breakthrough onto the European music scene.
Zlatko Gall, Slobodna Dalmacija - daily paper, January 2006, Croatia
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•BBC World Music Awards 2004 nominees compilation review
“Fortunately, the random nature of awards compilation like this provides the opportunity to browse and skip and
fall headlong for something you’ve never heard before. In my case, the “blind date” artist is Tamara Obrovac.
Cansoneita (A Small Song) performed by Obrovac with the Transhistria Ensemble, is a floating, beguiling track,
with spacious drumming, tuneful accordion and a delicious lead vocal by Obrovac.”
John L. Walters, The Guardian, February 2004, GB
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The best of all possible worlds? Independent, December 2003, GB
Supported Voices? Well, try taking away the studio effects from Rokia Traore or the Uzbek superstar Sevara
Nazarkhan, and see what you're left with. Unlike Evora or Ferrer, these young singers need the help of technology
to weave their spells, and though there's nothing wrong with technology per se, this does sort out minor talents
from the major ones. Croatia's Tamara Obrovac tops my bill in this group - a fine artist, with a clever band.
Michael Church, Independent, December, 2003, GB
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A gem of Croatian musical production Tamara Obrovac transhistria ensemble, CD “All fades away”
Signing it personally, in an original, direct, spontaneous and amusing way, affirming the tradition, the language, the
sound and the characteristic and unique richness of the today almost archaic Istrian music, the brilliant singersongwriter has created her personal and original version of the ethnic trend still so important in the world today.
… she has embodied the melody, the sonority, the unique scale and the autochthonous rhythm into a universal,
agreeable and sensitive language understandable on any meridian or parallel, carrying a universal musical and
poetic message.
Ivica Zupan, Novi list, Rijeka, March, 2003, Croatia
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TAMARA OBROVAC quartet - cd ULIKA
excellent... this is a work filled with strong inner force which reinterprets the traditional popular sound in a
manner yet unheard-of.
Bojan Muscet, Zagreb, September 1998, Croatia
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On the THE crossroads of genres / CD ulika review
Ulika is simply an extraordinary album, which defies every traditional critical meter; a fascinating project of an
equisite musical journey, carried out with unhibited musical imagination and the luxurious talent of Tamara and her
band.
Zlatko Gall, Split, Feral tribune, August 1998, Croatia
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