Thank you, Oliver Arditi, for this beautiful review!
Timezone Records TZ865, CD album, 53m 9s
€12
http://www.pannonmelankolikusok.com/
I don’t know if Christina Domene and Robert Hofmann were a performing duo before they conceived their love of the Hungarian language, and began to set that culture’s poetry to music. That is the agenda around which this project revolves, however, and they certainly chose its name, which translates as ‘Pannonian melancholy’ on that basis. Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire, but the name was applied to several states or provinces in Transdanubia and the Pannonian Basin, including the medieval kingdom of Hungary. Claiming a Pannonian identity for their music (not for themselves, as both musicians are German) implies a more historically rooted, and less geographically or ethnically exclusive perspective than ‘Hungarian’ might have suggested; and indeed, this album is not a curation of autochthonic culture, but a cosmopolitan, self-aware act of composition, executed from a decidedly…
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