![]() ![]() However, the sources of sadness, in the origin of the articulation, differ. ![]() Sevdah is, like blues and flamenco (primarily its “cante jondo”, “deep song”, it being the closest to kara-sevdah*), characteristically sad. If the intention was just to emphasise the value of sevdah and the genre’s uniqueness that also blues has, and not to imply the similarity of the two in their essence, then that would be much closer to the truth. I’m not sure how appropriate those comparisons of sevdah with blues, or any other musical genre, are. In “Stories of Sevdah”, a film by Robert Golden, sevdah was called “The Balkan Blues”, and in a BBC documentary “The Bridge of Bosnian Blues”. It is enough to listen to just a half of the first song, the one that opens the album, “Woe Is Me, in Sarajevo Lonely, Me”. That would be a misconception, and misconceptions mostly do harm. After albums like Secret Gate, Café Sevdah, Tales from Forgotten City and so on, a passionate sevdah and MSR afficionado could be led to think that it has all been said, sung and played already. Mostar Sevdah Reunion’s twelfth album! One could think “What else is there of sevdah and sevdalinka to be heard, that we haven’t already heard?!”. ![]()
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