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Alice

from Hybrid by Elena Mindru

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    Hybrid is Elena Mîndru's first symphonic jazz album, a Hybrid of own compositions, carols, Romanian and Finnish songs.

    10 years after her success in the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition, when Quincy Jones himself, as head of the jury, awarded Elena both the 2nd Prize and the Public Prize, 10 years after the release of her first album – Romanian Christmas Stories, Elena comes back at the end of 2022 with a musical story that celebrates – through feelings and experiences concentrated in 9 pieces – her hybrid life as a Romanian artist living in Finland. A mixture of nostalgia for the home she left behind, of Romanian traditions, poetry reflecting a Nordic landscape, vulnerability, family, the reflection of her childhood values in a completely different space – all of these have found their expression in her first symphonic jazz album featuring her quartet and the Moldovan National Youth Orchestra.

    About the Hybrid album, the international music journalist specializing in jazz, Henning Bolte said, “Hybrid can also be considered a statement of one of the highly profiled Romanian jazz musicians working abroad. Romanian and Finnish temperaments are productively united in this project forming an extraordinary Eastern alliance of high significance for Europe.”

    This project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania. The project does not necessarily represent the views of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund of Romania does not carry the responsibility for the content of this project, nor for the ways, the results of this project could be used.

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music: Sampo Kasurinen, lyrics: Ulriikka Heikinheimo

ALICE (2015)
This piece was commissioned for the Symphonic Meets Jazz project and performed for the first time in Cluj-Napoca with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015, with additional modifications of the orchestration in 2020. The lyrics belong to Ulriikka Heikinheimo and are based on a poem by Lewis Carroll. The piece takes us through various states of mind, exploring the strengths of the entire orchestra, along with the jazz quartet. It combines influences of jazz music, classical romantic music, the minimalistic period, and even the dodecaphonic period.

Perhaps the fact of following a wild rabbit running through the forest with a watch is considered "madness", but this pursuit requires courage, curiosity, and creativity.

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ALICE
Music: Sampo Kasurinen, Lyrics: Ulrika Heikinheimo

YOU HAVE GROWN OLD, YET I AM STILL SO YOUNG
YOUR HAIR IS WHITE, YET YOU INCENSSANTLY
YOU STAND ON YOUR HEAD, IT CAN BE JUST DANGEROUS!
DO YOU HEAR ME? THIS IS ALICE.
ARE YOU REALLY HERE IN THIS WORLD AT ALL?

YOUR MIND IS THERE WHERE EVERYTHING IS STRANGE
TWISTED AND FUN,
WHERE OLD BECOMES YOUNG AGAIN
WHERE YOU FORGET THAT TIME EXISTS.

IT RUNS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS AND LINGERS
WHEN YOU WANT IT TO PASS
IT HAS NO MERCY ON AGE
YOU WILL SEE IT
ON YOUR MOTHER’S FACE
WHO CAN CONTROL TIME AND IT’S ENDLESS RUN?

FLY WHILE YOU CAN ALICE
BREAK RULES OF GRAVITY
A HEART THAT’S BEEN OPEN
WILL REMEMBER EVERYTHING
WHEN MORNING HAS TURNED TO NIGHT

IF I TAKE THE ROAD OF SURREALITY, OF INSANITY
TRY A DIFFERENT VIEW
FORGET ALL THE CHAINS OF NORMALITY
WOULD I FIND MY WAY OR COME EVER DOWN?

FLY WHILE YOU CAN ALICE
BREAK RULES OF SANITY
FORGET REALITY!
LET MADNESS TAKE OVER
TO SEE WHO YOU REALLY ARE
A HEART THAT HAS OPENED
WILL LEAVE A MARK ON EVERYONE

DO I BELIEVE IN YOU?
TEMPTATION OR THE TRUTH?
IS YOUR VOICE REAL?
NO, YOU ARE HERE
THIS IS SURREAL, BEFORE MY EYES!

YOU HAVE GROWN SO OLD YET I AM STILL SO YOUNG
WHERE ARE WE NOW?
IS THIS THE WONDERLAND?

IF I OPEN MY EYES DO I WAKE UP?
THIS IS ALICE
DO YOU HEAR ME?

THERE’S NO TICK TACK AND THERE’S NO GRAVITY
I SEE YOU,
YOU SEE ME.

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from Hybrid, track released November 11, 2022

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Elena Mindru Helsinki, Finland

A Montreux Jazz Voice Competition awardee, Elena Mindru has performed in many countries around the globe, including venues in the US (New York), Germany, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Finland or Romania, as a jazz vocal soloist with the European Jazz Orchestra, the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra among many others. ... more

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