MUSICAL DIALOGUE ON THE MEMORY OF EUROPE

The Danube music festival on a ship is an original idea of the Film director Zlatina Rousseva who built through several movies a very special and emotional relationship with nomad music and these musicians who keep the soul and the traditions of the people around Danube.

“Music deals with people's deepest roots and identity. People moved in both directions alonside the Danube and so did the music, people suffered and enjoyed huge celebrations and music keeps the emotional records of all these."

I began to interest myself to music when I found that the music and the virtuoso musicians that have rhytmed people celebrations and wedding for centuries were about to disappear in Bulgaria. That is a very special aproach reach of emotion and communication that you don’t find in a normal concert stage. I first made a movie to keep a print of these spirit and traditions for the next generation. However music is not only to be fixed. Music also needs the people to dance on it, to enjoy it with their whole heart and to share after have left a sensation of life in its rich melody.From this need came the ideas of the festival and of the trip by ship on Danube. On the boat we try to create this special intensif and emotional musical exchange. The ship is going on the river between water, brilliant cultural cities and magnifiscent nature. You are out of the ordinary preocupations. You are not busy you are not in a hurry. You are juste here and now and you can let yourself to be involved in the music, in the creation in the feeling of the mixture of rythm of the water, the eternity of the river and the springing emotion of the music.On the ship, musicians discuss, make music and search together new ideas. The boat is transformed it a huge music laboratory to share music, experiences and emotions. It is a no man's land but a no man's land whose canging surroundings are full of the best musical experiences that you could imagineIn the harbours, some musicians leave, others come and music flows against the stream"

Zlatina Rousseva

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