Tamara Obrovac - Se me ra morta privari - Ako me smrt prevari - If death was to trick me

PANPHONIA ISTRIANA / ISTRIAN POLYSOUNDS Tamara Obrovac, Croatian musician has launched the years-long project of revitalization of dialectal and musical heritage of Istria, PANPHONIA ISTRIANA, in which the archaism of the dialectal and cultural tradition is connected with the modern multimedia expression. The visual identity of the project is in the hands of Matija Debeljuh, director and visual artist. The aim of the project is to produce one multimedia computer DVD each two years, dedicated to one of the many Istrian dialects of Slavic and Romanic origin. The first DVD (2009) was dedicated to the Istro-Roman dialect, and the second one, which is currently underway, is dedicated to the Istro-Romanian language preserved in the villages of Žejane and Šušnjevica, on the slopes of Učka mountain... A lot of different audio / video / photo material has been collected; we are currently working on the structure and the story which will serve as the framework for the multimedia artistic presentation of various aspects of this obsolete vernacular, again under the motto "written word, uttered word and word set to music". The leading idea of the whole project is: dialect is the language of emotion, emotion is the language of the soul, soul is the language of a culture. _______________________________________ www.panphonia.com www.tamaraobrovac.com __________________________________________ ground music: "Se me ra morta privari" / "Ako me smrt prevari" / "If death tricks me" (music by Tamara Obrovac, lyrics by Silvana Brkarić Krculić in the Istro-Romanian language (Vlaški or Žejanski) Tamara Obrovac, voice, composer Uroš Rakovec, guitar Tomislav Novak , accordion Žiga Golob, double bass Krunoslav Levačić, drums SE ME RA MORTA PRIVARI Io şteptu ke ver veri Nu poc fǎr de tire fi Armoniga scutu De lârgo se âvde Nu ştivu ce ra fi Se me ra morta privari Se me ra morta privari Tu me cl'emi Te vresi turnâ Io t-am vut râda Ma cmoce... Već nu-i čâ şâ. Io vrut-am ta mǎr Tu n-ai o vrut dâ Docle io-m ganait, tu n-ai vrut scutâ Se me ra morta privari Se me ra morta privari __________________ IF DEATH WAS TO TRICK ME I wait for you to come I can't be without you. I listen to the accordion I can hear it from afar. I don't know what will be If death was to trick me If death was to trick me. You're calling me You'd like to come back, I loved you But now... It's not longer so. I wanted your hand You didn't want to give it While I talked, you didn't Want to listen. When I cried, If death was to trick me If death was to trick me. lyrics by Silvana Brkarić Krculić, New York, United States