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Presented for nomination by the BBC Radio World Music Awards. "Maverick Swingle Singer, this formidable musician ends up sounding like a Morricone score, or an entire Bulgarian choir, as her impassioned vocalising swoops through the octaves." The Scotsman
Genre: World: World Fusion
Release Date: 2004
Hashgachah
Jarmila Xymena Gorna
Record Label: 33 Records
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Album Notes

Vocalist, pianist, composer JARMILA XYMENA GORNA

Presented for nomination by the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards

Press Release: "HASHGACHAH" ON 33 RECORDS (2004) 33WM132

Jarmila Xymena Gorna's [Yarmeela Kseemena Goorna] 'Hashgachah' is a classic album of the new century. A bravura combination of musical brilliance and soulful expression, it heralds the arrival of a unique singing, composing and piano-playing talent.

Taking advantage of her four-octave range, the multi-layered and improvised voice is accopmanied by her fluid piano playing and subtle arrangements for double-bass, brass, percussion, oud and violin.

Born into a musical family in Lodz, Poland, London-based Gorna brings a wealth of musical experience to her work. She combines a thorough classical piano training with deep research into European folk traditions, and love of jazz, which she studied at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.

The result is music that is sophisticated and audacious; wordless songs that express more than lyrics can describe, delivered in a personal voice that takes the listener on a magical journey full of passion, soul searching and celebration.

Reviews below.

Jarmila Xymena Gorna
www.jarmilagorna.com
info@jarmilagorna.com
Full biography: www.jarmilagorna.com/bio/biography.html

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truly remarkable
author: Kindred Spirit, New age mag in UK
                            
"A truly remarkable album. She delivers a vast array of wordless vocal pyrotechnics; deeply sultry jazz to wild screeching chants and soaring celestial choirs. The virtuoso piano playing is of the highest calibre: richly diverse and brilliantly conceived."
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NO WORDS TO EXPRESS THIS CD
author: natalie
                            
Heya - this CD is really uplifting it puts u in the right frame of mind it leaves u feeling relaxed and chilled and it's JUST dazzaling... After hearing it once it just made me wanna hear it more and more...keep up this amazing gr8 wrk talent of yours.
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"Hashgachah" is nothing if not tour de force.
author: The Herald, Scotland, UK
                            
"Gorna clearly knows what she wants. With its jazzy sophistication, multi-cultural inspirations, incredible vocal harmonies and wordless songs which describe, as gorna puts it, 'the full seven colours of the emotional rainbow', her album 'Hashgachah' is nothing if not tour de force."
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Gorna choreographs epic soundtracks
author: The Herald, Scotland, UK
                            
"In Gorna's wordless songs, all the human emotions feature with drama and searing conviction. Seated at the grand piano with an electronic keyboard at hand to trigger her amazing harmonies, Gorna - with her emotional honesty and vulnerability - choreographs epic soundtracks."
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