Fundamental Interactions is a collaborative project by musician and performer Jelena Kuljić, in which she brings together an international group of musicians and poets from the former Yugoslavia. In addition to her own texts, she also includes poems by Marko Pogačar and Olja Savičević Ivančević from Croatia, Selma Asotić and Jasna Šamić from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Dragana Mladenović from Serbia. The focus is on the things that connect us and make us similar—exploring the tension between the concepts of home, language, and identity.
Together with Olga Reznichenko, Christian Lillinger, Kalle Kalima, and Tim Dahl, an extraordinary musical project has been created that questions boundaries both geographically and musically. Improvisation, contemporary electronic music, jazz, progressive rock, poetry, and the avant-garde come together in this unique project.
This album is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the end of the Bosnian War.
Line-up
Jelena Kuljić
voice
Christian Lillinger
drums, electronics
Kalle Kalima
guitar
Olga Reznichenko
rhodes, synthesizer
Tim Dahl
bass, electronics
Tim Lefebvre
special guest on bass and electronics on track 8
Credits
Poems by Olja Savičević Ivančević (2, 9, 10) Selma Asotić (6,7), Dragana Mladenović (8,13), Jasna Šamić (3), Marko Pogačar (1, 15) and Jelena Kuljić (5, 11, 16).
Compositions by Kalima, Lillinger & Kuljić (6, 13), Lillinger & Kuljić (1, 11), Lillinger, Kuljić & Lefebvre (8), Lillinger (5, 12), Kalima & Lillinger (2, 14), Kalima (3, 9), Fundamental Interactions (4, 7, 10, 15, 16)
Recorded by Moses Schneider and Sebastian Muxfeldt in September 2024 at Clouds Hill Studio, Hamburg
Production: Christian Lillinger
Mix: Nanni Johannsen, Christian Lillinger
Master: Michael Brändli
Photos: Gabrijela Parigros
Funded by MusikFond and crowdfunding
Thank you for making this project possible: Musikfond, Förderverein der Münchner Kammerspiele, Athanasia Petridou, Ina Gercke, Marion Weber, Stefan Merki, Leonard Lazar, Melisa Kaya, Maren Solty, Bodo Herrmann, Hans-Jürgen Stachewicz , Paul Brody, Susanne Papawassiliu, Christian Kögel, Damir Bačikin, Christian Weidner, Christian Löber, Evdoxia Filippou, Nils Nebe, Kober Danijel, Emina Sendic, Radojka Dukic Mihailovic, Anne Habermehl, Rainer Dusche, Claudia Reiter, Peter Beck, Asmir Šabić, Sanja Matutinović, Evelyn Jelinek, Levent Askar, Rainer Dusche, Denis Pauljević, Iris Springer, Stefan Deistler.