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Katalena group portrait by Luka Kaše, 2011

Deftly merging various idioms of popular music with the legacies of Slovenian folklore culture, Katalena are certainly amongst the more curious rock collectives in Slovenia. By way of unearthing archival folklore materials and fusing them with rock grooves, a quirky vocal performance and a certain explorative jazz sensibility, the band has created a diverse and yet also very recognizable body of work.

Treating tradition as a vital part of contemporary culture, they've set up a number of unique projects, from collaborations with some of the finest Slovene poets, like Dane Zajc and Svetlana Makarovič, to complex stage performances that, for example, involved the choreographers Edward Clug and Valentina Turcu.

Background

The band members met almost accidentally in the summer of 2001 in an idyllic village in the Southeast of Slovenia. Coming from different musical backgrounds, from rock (Sfiltrom, Bast) and blues (Moj boogie band) to folk (Terrafolk) and trip hop (Melodrom), the musicians then experimented for a week with several old Slovene folk tunes they had discovered in the archives of the Institute of Ethnomusicology.

After that, they've gained a lot of attention in a rather short time, and their first public appearance in December 2001 at the Novi Rock (New Rock) festival in Ljubljana was, to everyone's surprise, completely sold out.

Performances

Katalena has played all major festivals and venues in Slovenia, including the prestigious Druga Godba Festival, where they've been invited to play 4 times up until now. Other festivals include Lent Festival, Rock Otočec, Carniola Festival, Mediterranean Festival, Izola, Trnfest Festival, Zmaj 'ma mlade Festival, Days of Poetry and Wine Festival and Kamfest.

In 2009 they've sold out the Gallus Hall in Cankarjev dom with a special event that included 13 ballet dancers from the Slovene National Theatre Maribor. That same year, as a part of Animateka Festival, the band also did an audio-visual concert that featured a crew of Slovene animators, who (beforehand) created short animated films, based on their songs. Another of their performances in this explorative vein is the Enci benci Katalenci show, which was created explicitly for children and which debuted in Cankarjev dom in 2015.

Katalena also has an enviable list of performances abroad, having played in the USA, Switzerland, Hungary, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Israel and Croatia.

Members and their solo works

The Katalena line-up has remained the same since their beginning and consists of Vesna Zornik (vocal), Polona Janežič (keyboards, backing vocals), Tibor Mihelič (bass, backing vocals), Boštjan Narat (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Robert Rebolj (drums, percussion), and Boštjan Gombač (clarinet, flutes, percussion, backing vocals and more).

The members are all very productive outside Katalena as well. For example, Boštjan Narat is highly successful as a singer-songwriter, Vesna Zornik created a well received tango oriented solo project TangoApasionada in 2010, Polona Janežič plays keyboards in Melodrom. As for Boštjan Gombač, he is undoubtedly one of the most active Slovene musicians, and was in recent years a main performer in the cabaret Patty Diphusa – Confessions of Porno Diva, directed by Ivana Djilas, with whom the band has also collaborated.

Releases

Katalena releases are quite diverse and often concept-driven. This 2002 début established their operational principle of modernising Slovene traditional folk idioms, which they continued on the second album Babje leto (2004).

Kmečka ohcet (2006) featured songs that have a lyrical connection to weddings and wedding-related themes, and Cvik cvak! (2008) reached into Resian folk music (Resia is a remote valley, close to the border in Italy, where a Slovene minority lives and is known for its specific language and culture). Noč čarovnic (2012) covered poems by various Slovenian poets and their 2015 release, Enci benci Katalenci, remodelled children's songs in such a way that they are equally appealing to children as well as to their more 'demanding' audiences. In 2018, the album called Človek ni zver (Man is not a Beast).

KATALENA: ENCI BENCI by Katalena on YouTube

External links

Katalena website

Gallery

Audiovisual Concert: Katalena Animated (Avdio-vizualni koncert: Animirana Katalena), Katalena concert at Stara Elektrarna - Old Power Station, Animateka Festival, 2009.

Slovene folk band Katalena performing at Križanke during Druga godba Festival in Ljubljana, 2008

Katalena group portrait by Luka Kaše, 2011

Katalena performing at Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, 2013

Katalena group portrait by Ivian Kan Mujezinović, 2014

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-{{Abstract|
-[[Katalena]] deals with the folk music legacy of the Slovene region, recreating and performing it in its own way with a basic presumption that folk music is timeless and vital. Katalena's goal is to revive this tradition, to give it a wave of fresh energy, to pull it out of the dusty national subconsciousness and to publish it in a way that is at ease and unburdened. There are not many experiments of this kind in Slovenia and the result has been a positive surprise. Katalena has created a very special mixture of rhythms, temperament, of the old with the new. In their music heritage rock and ethno rhythms meet. A dash of jazz is added. In short: when making rearrangements, basically everything is allowed.
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+{{wide image|Katalena 2011 photo Luka Kase.jpg}}
+Deftly merging various idioms of popular music with the legacies of Slovenian folklore culture, [[Katalena]] are certainly amongst the more curious rock collectives in Slovenia. By way of unearthing archival folklore materials and fusing them with rock grooves, a quirky vocal performance and a certain explorative jazz sensibility, the band has created a diverse and yet also very recognizable body of work.
+Treating tradition as a vital part of contemporary culture, they've set up a number of unique projects, from collaborations with some of the finest Slovene poets, like [[Dane Zajc]] and [[Svetlana Makarovič]], to complex stage performances that, for example, involved the choreographers Edward Clug and [[Valentina Turcu]].
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-The band members met quite accidentally in the Slovene countryside village of Črmošnjice in Bela krajina in Summer 2001. Coming from different musical backgrounds - from more or less classic rock (Sfiltrom, Terra mystica, [[Bast]]), folk ([[Terrafolk]]), blues (Moj boogie band) and trip hop ([[Melodrom]]) - its musicians experimented for a week with several old Slovene folk tunes they had discovered in the archives of the [[Institute of Ethnomusicology]]. Soon they had grown into a regular music group, gaining quite a lot of attention in a very short time. They made their first public appearance in December 2001 at the Novi rock (New Rock) festival in Ljubljana, and their first individual concert was (to everyone's surprise) completely sold out. Since 2001 they have released three albums - (Z)godbe (2002), Babje leto (2004) and Kmečka ohcet (2006).
+== Background==
-Katalena have appeared at all major festivals and venues in Slovenia - Novi Rock Festival, [[Druga Godba Festival]], [[Lent Festival]], [[Rock Otočec - Festival Novo mesto]], [[Carniola Festival]], [[Mediterranean Festival, Izola]], [[Trnfest Festival]] - and have also performed at several concerts abroad - in Switzerland (Alpentone Festival), Hungary, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Croatia (European Broadcasting Union Festival). In February 2006 they played the Gallus Hall of [[Cankarjev dom]], the biggest concert hall in Slovenia, and in July 2006 they performed at the Rudolstadt Folk Festival in Germany. Some songs from their albums became 'Song of the Week' on national public radio, while a few Katalena videos took prime position in the Slovene video charts. In 2007 Katalena released a new singel called Pastirče mlado and started a successful collaboration with the group of ballet dancers from [[Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor]]. Besides several performances there is also Katalena's 8th music video for Pastirče mlado, showing the fusion of music and the art of dancing. For 2008 Katalena is preparing to release their 4th album.
-The Katalena line-up currently comprises Vesna Zornik (vocal), Polona Janežič (keyboards, backing vocals), Tibor Mihelič (bass, backing vocals), Boštjan Narat (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Robert Rebolj (drums, percussion) and Boštjan Gombač (clarinet, flutes, percussion, backing vocals).
+The band members met almost accidentally in the summer of [[established::2001]] in an idyllic village in the Southeast of Slovenia. Coming from different musical backgrounds, from rock (Sfiltrom, [[Bast]]) and blues (Moj boogie band) to folk ([[Terrafolk]]) and trip hop ([[Melodrom]]), the musicians then experimented for a week with several old Slovene folk tunes they had discovered in the archives of the [[Institute of Ethnomusicology]].
+After that, they've gained a lot of attention in a rather short time, and their first public appearance in December 2001 at the Novi Rock (''New Rock'') festival in Ljubljana was, to everyone's surprise, completely sold out.
+== Performances ==
+Katalena has played all major festivals and venues in Slovenia, including the prestigious [[Druga Godba Festival]], where they've been invited to play 4 times up until now. Other festivals include [[Lent Festival]], [[Rock Otočec]], [[Carniola Festival, Summer in Kranj|Carniola Festival]], [[Mediterranean Festival, Izola]], [[Trnfest Festival]], [[Zmaj 'ma mlade Festival]], [[Days of Poetry and Wine Festival]] and [[Kamfest]].
+In 2009 they've sold out the Gallus Hall in [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]] with a special event that included 13 ballet dancers from the [[Slovene National Theatre Maribor]]. That same year, as a part of [[Animateka International Animated Film Festival|Animateka Festival]], the band also did an audio-visual concert that featured a crew of Slovene animators, who (beforehand) created short animated films, based on their songs. Another of their performances in this explorative vein is the Enci benci Katalenci show, which was created explicitly for children and which debuted in Cankarjev dom in 2015.
+Katalena also has an enviable list of performances abroad, having played in the USA, Switzerland, Hungary, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Israel and Croatia.
+== Members and their solo works ==
+The Katalena line-up has remained the same since their beginning and consists of [[Vesna Zornik]] (vocal), [[Polona Janežič]] (keyboards, backing vocals), [[Tibor Mihelič]] (bass, backing vocals), [[Boštjan Narat]] (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), [[Robert Rebolj]] (drums, percussion), and [[Boštjan Gombač]] (clarinet, flutes, percussion, backing vocals and more).
+The members are all very productive outside Katalena as well. For example, [[Boštjan Narat]] is highly successful as a singer-songwriter, [[Vesna Zornik]] created a well received tango oriented solo project ''TangoApasionada'' in 2010, [[Polona Janežič]] plays keyboards in [[Melodrom]]. As for [[Boštjan Gombač]], he is undoubtedly one of the most active Slovene musicians, and was in recent years a main performer in the cabaret Patty Diphusa &ndash; Confessions of Porno Diva, directed by [[Ivana Djilas]], with whom the band has also collaborated.
+== Releases ==
+Katalena releases are quite diverse and often concept-driven. This 2002 début established their operational principle of modernising Slovene traditional folk idioms, which they continued on the second album ''Babje leto'' (2004).
+''Kmečka ohcet'' (2006) featured songs that have a lyrical connection to weddings and wedding-related themes, and ''Cvik cvak!'' (2008) reached into Resian folk music (Resia is a remote valley, close to the border in Italy, where a Slovene minority lives and is known for its specific language and culture). Noč čarovnic (2012) covered poems by various Slovenian poets and their 2015 release, Enci benci Katalenci, remodelled children's songs in such a way that they are equally appealing to children as well as to their more 'demanding' audiences. In 2018, the album called ''Človek ni zver'' (Man is not a Beast).
+{{YouTube|1tUe_a4GMts}}
+==See also==
+* [[Terrafolk]]
+* [[Melodrom]]
+* [[Cankarjev dom, Cultural and Congress Centre|Cankarjev dom]]
+* [[Druga Godba Festival]]
+== External links ==
+*[http://www.katalena.net Katalena website]
+{{gallery}}
+[[Category:Music]]
+[[Category:Music groups, ensembles and orchestras]]
 [[Category:Ethno music]]
+[[Category:Pop music]]

Difference between revisions of "Katalena"

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Background

Performances

Members and their solo works

Releases

See also

External links

Gallery

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