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Symmetry

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 & lyrics: Elena Mîndru, arr.: Sampo Kasurinen

SYMMETRY (2016)
This piece was originally commissioned from Elena Mîndru by Jyväskylä Big Band. The work had its starting point in a few sketches written by Mrs. Mîndru while practicing atonal music. The ideas of the sketches were recycled and combined for Symmetry, which is based on the composer’s introductory made-up symmetrical scale, combined with oscillating odd meters and regular time signatures. The lyrics explore the symmetry of life, a symmetry between our outer and inner world, between day and night, masculine and feminine, and so on. The orchestral arrangement was written by Sampo Kasurinen, following Elena Mîndru’s big band version’s structure of this same piece.

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SYMMETRY

THINK!
COULD THERE BE DARK WITHOUT LIGHT?
COULD THERE BE SAD WITHOUT GLAD?
COULD THERE BE NEAR WITHOUT FAR?
IT’S ALL A SYMMETRY!

COULD THERE BE DAY WITHOUT NIGHT?
COULD THERE BE END WITHOUT START?
COULD THERE BE FIRST WITHOUT LAST?
IT’S ALL A SYMMETRY!

COULD THERE BE LOVE WITHOUT HATE?
COULD THERE BE MAD WITHOUT SANE?
COULD HE EXIST WITHOUT HER?
IT’S ALL A SYMME-, ALL A SYMMETRY!

OLD, YOUNG OR LOOSE, TIGHT, YES
EACH THING HAS TWO SHADOWS.
ONE MAKES YOU GLAD AND THEN
ONE MAKES YOU FEEL SORROW, SO

THINK HOW AMAZING THE WORLD
HOW YOU ARE PART OF THIS WONDERFUL THING
ALL IN BALANCE.
THINK, EVERYTHING HAS A PAIR
YOU’RE NOT ALONE, THERE IS SOMEONE FOR YOU
ONLY BE AWARE!

WHEN YOU START TO SEE IT AROUND
IT WILL GET YOUR MIND OFF THE GROUND
IT WILL MAKE YOU OUT OF CONTROL
IT WILL DOMINATE YOUR SOUL, SO

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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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