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Meditations on Bosnia

by Mike Heffley

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Overview, from Home (Yugo 1, Bosni 1) 13:46
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Flight, From Home (Yugo, Girl) 10:03
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3.
A Rival (Not Home) 09:09
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4.
Arrival (New Home) 09:26
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Come Unity, Knew Home 13:58
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Community, Know Home 11:49
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Breakdowns to Homes 08:35
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Breakups (Two Homes) 10:49
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Kinship Survives Two Homes 02:20
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Kinship Thrives, Won Home 09:20
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11.
overView, from Home (America 0, Bombs1) 13:46
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I recorded these tracks when the US started bombing Bosnia back in the ‘90s. My good friend and fellow grad student in Ethnomusicology then, the late Mirjana Lausevic (www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3mmoNkaEI), from Sarajevo, was close in my daily life, and I felt her natural fear for her family and homeland well up. I was also already engaged in learning some of the rhythms of the music she sang and played in her various performances at Wesleyan and around the region. These sessions were my way of venting about the emotional and working on the intellectual aspects of that history, material, and friendship.

A nice brief acquaintance with Slovenian composer/trombonist Vinko Globokar also fueled the music here...

Eric Dolphy famously said (paraphrasing) music, from most profound to most casual, sounds for a moment, then is gone, into the air, forever. True (and also profound) enough--but of course we literate-cum-techie humans have defied that heartbreaking truth, with our scores, lead sheets, and recording technology. My path with music is both that of performer of existing and creator of original music. After a long stint of working the former, I'm turning toward a new stint with the latter, and that more as improviser than composer.

Herein is another of several such events from my archives I'll post on Bandcamp, to be followed with a steadier trickle-feed of same (along with a smattering of public-domain stuff) over the next open chunk of time. (This one is as much the composed as improvised--but that to facilitate my explorations as both keyboard improviser and trombonist-with-mutes.)

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released October 12, 2022

All tracks by Mike Heffley (composer, trombonist, pianist)

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Mike Heffley Portland, Oregon

Please go to my Community page, scroll down to its start. I use the platform there to post a longoing literary fabulism to go with the music shared here. Readers can reply to it (as I do), but I’m not looking to engage with them. Also not looking to DO “community” there, or to pitch my product. This is mainly my message in a bottle to self, bobbing on its solitudinous sea. ... more

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