Ensemble Basiani:
Giorgi Donadze - dyr.
Bezhan Meskhi - first voice
Irakli Tkvatsiria - first voice
Shota Abuladze - first voice

Paata Tsetskhladze - second voice
Gela Donadze - second voice
Sergo Urushadze - second voice
Giorgi khunashvili - second voice
Lasha Metreveli - bass
Giorgi Mekvabishvili - bass
Batu Lominadze - bass
Zurab Tskirialashvili - bass

recorded in Tbilisi, Georgia 2011

With intimate links to everyday and spiritual contexts alike (through the orthodox liturgy but also through epic ballads, lullabies, songs for entertainment, wedings and work etc.), the sophistical polyphony of Georgia - performed here with passion and invention by the Ensemble Basiani - evokes a distant musical past even as it surprises by its modernity.

With intimate links to everyday and spiritual contexts alike (through the orthodox liturgy but also through epic ballads, lullabies, songs for entertainment, wedings and work etc.), the sophistical polyphony of Georgia - performed here with passion and invention by the Ensemble Basiani - evokes a distant musical past even as it surprises by its modernity.