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| | Bob Tarte's "Technobeat" Archives |
 | | Bosnia: Echoes from an Endangered World (Smithsonian/Folkways) begins on an appropriately sorrowful note with vocalist Nada Mamula quietly singing the praises of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, in a recording of "Kad ja podjoh Benbasu" (When I Went to Benbasu) that pre-dates the current war. |
 | | Detailed liner notes to this wide-ranging anthology indicate that the leader of the orchestra on this cut is now deceased, as is engaging singer Himzo Polovina and his saz player, Selim Salihovic, on "Dunjaluce, golem ti si" (World and its People, You Are Great), a ballad extolling the beauty and historical tolerance of Sarajevo. |
 | | Numerous performers on this disc, in fact, are noted as dead, wounded, missing or prisoners in the ongoing carnage. |
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