Drina - Ozren goro, povi brdu grane video

Drina was a vocal duo of Svetlana Spajić and Minja Nikolić at the begining of the 2000s, doing traditional Serbian vocal music from all the parts of Balkans where you'd typically find Serbs (Podrinje, Macedonia, Kosovo, Eastern Serbia, Kninska Krajina, Bosanska Krajina etc.). Today they are involved with another project (Pjevačka Družina Svetlane Spajić) but their album from 2001, called Živa Voda is still well worth seeking out. The song here is from Eastern Bosnia and is sung in "kantalica" style , with the first voice doing the main theme and the second singing the second interval (which makes it sound pretty unearthly). Despite its somewhat alien sound, it is a wedding song, sung at weddings. Here is what Svetlana Spajić said about the project back in the day: Drina is one of few urban groups in Yugoslavia which perform traditional Serbian songs using authentic vocal technique. It is duet and its members are Svetlana Spajic and Minja Nikolic. These two young singers also performs the songs from other Balkan areas, primarily from Bulgaria and Macedonia using vocal styles typical for these areas, but mostly their repertoire consists of traditional songs from all areas where the Serbs live or used to live (until the war events in this decade, expulsions and migrations). For their work they use exclusively field-recordings of village singing or go directly to the villages, searching for new songs and traditional manners of singing. Drina started its work in Belgrade in ...