TRIO TZANE (Bulgaria)
     Now band lives in France. Janam, tzane m', jân, This Persian word, that traveled through the centuries from Iran to Turkey, and then to Greece and Bulgaria, means ‘soul. Trio Tzane is the story of a meeting. Three women, three singers, three nationalities, meet in Paris and decide to join their voices in polyphony. They tell stories so different, yet so similar. They sing in Greek, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, telling balkanic stories, sang in their own way on in the way of the ancestors, mixing vocal improvisations with compositions of young compositors. A voyage from Epirus and Macedonia to Bulgaria, and then Turkey and the Black Sea. A story told by three voices, that join and separate in particular harmonic patterns.

     Trio TZANE is a female vocal ensemble that interpretive polyphonic songs of the Balkan area. It was created in Paris in 2007 from three singers, Sandrine Monlezun (Bulgaria), Xanthoula Dakovanou (Greece) and Gul Hacer Toruk (Turkey). The repertory consists on traditional songs with the appropriate vocal techniques of each area, arranged for three voices using new harmonies, new colors and senses from the Trio.

     In this cd, we can hear a "Shopska Kitka" (=suite of two Bulgarian songs from the region of Shope). They are two traditional songs arranged by Trio TZANE - Lepa Iano and Iana ofchar lagala. The first song is a slow, ornamented sad song and the second is a traditional seven-beat funny song, speaking about a girl who was teasing a young Shepard, whom she had to marry finally...

Songs:
Lepa Iano
- Beautiful Iana, why are you sad? Why don't you have a mother?
- Grey eagle, I do have a mother and a father...

Iana ofchar lagala
Iana is flirting with a young Shepard, to tease him...let me hear you say "gui", my dove
but the parents came to Iana...
- Undo your long strand, and let your blonde hair touch the earth...(because she had to marry him!)

Members:
Xanthoula Dakovanou; Gul Hacer Toruk; Sandrine Monlezun

Web-site: www.myspace.com/triotzane