Goran Bregovic’s “Three Letters From Sarajevo“ are inspired with the city as a metaphore for peaceful coexistence and horror of hate. As the “Jerusalem of the Balkans”, Sarajevo has been part of many empires: Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian, and the residence of Christians, Muslims , Jews …
Each of these monotheists is interpreted in violin solo by different cultural traditions. In the creation and performance of the compositions, Goran used three different musical traditions: classical (Christian), klezmer (Jewish) and Oriental (Muslim) and united them into a single entity to show that differences can function and function in the same place.
The album was collaborated by musicians of different roots, Spanish singer Bebe, algerian punk rocker Rachid Taha, Israeli Asaf Avidan and many others.
Album was released worlwide this Friday on CD – LP & all digital platforms.
For album Bregovic says: „With my Three letters I just tried to switch from history to feelings, from feelings to joy, from sadness to dancing.“