First Dance

Evelina Petrova Trio’s debut album is a meeting between Russian folk songs
and Norwegian traditional music with harding fiddle and Nordic jazz.

Evelina Petrova — accordion, vocals
Laura Ellestad — Hardanger fiddle, 5-string fiddle
Andreas Rotevatn — trombone, electronics

Dedicated to Misha Alperin

Recorded February 21–23, 2019 at the Department of Traditional Arts and Traditional Music, University of South-Eastern Norway, Rolland

Recorded by Andreas Rotevatn and Mark Ellestad

Produced and mixed by Andreas Rotevatn

Mastering: Audun Strype

Listen to the album on YouTube

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Evelina Petrova Trio is an international encounter between three different musical traditions, backgrounds, and instruments. Evelina Petrova Trio has a surprisingly organic and natural sound, with room for the beautiful and the ugly, the tonal and the atonal – always warm and heartfelt.

The album title, First Dance, is inspired by the title of Misha Alperin’s composition, “Her First Dance,” which is also included here. Misha was a unique musician and composer who dedicated his life to the search for the individual musical voice, and to the idea of wholeness and unity in music. We are particularly grateful to Misha for his deep interest in our trio, and for the invaluable guidance he gave us during many of our early rehearsals. To show our love and gratitude, we dedicate this album to Misha.

1. Farewell (Music and lyrics by Evelina Petrova)

2. Her First Dance (music by Misha Alperin)

3. Le Silence de l’Ange (music by ROBERTO BONATI)

4. Nostalgia (music by Misha Alperin)

5. To Parajanov (Music by Evelina Petrova)

6. Grief (trad., arr. Misha Alperin)

7. Birds (Music by Evelina Petrova)

8. Ring (trad., arr. Evelina Petrova)

Nice words in Klassekampen about our album “First Dance” written by the great musician Anne Hytta:

— The music ensnares you with the melodies, and when pulled in you just want to stay there.

(-Musikken drar deg inn i melodiene, og der vil du bare bli.)

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Also some nice words from Karl Erik Sylthe:

— The resulting album is a sonic experience with exciting music, bordering on jazz and folk music with a Russian accent.

(Resultatet har blitt en vellydende CD med spennende musikk i grenselandet mellom jazz og folkemusikk med russisk aksent)

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