Divanhana - Zukva - Sevdah From Bosnia's Finest

Divanhana perform traditional and urban music from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the entire Balkan region, with influences from the early Ottoman Empire, newly arranged and fused with jazz, pop and 20th-century classical music.Leila Catic's silky vocals convey age old messages of melancholy, passion and suffering for love, set against the band's vibrantly energetic contemporary style....Divanhana builds large swirling tones of mystery before turning slyly romantic and hurling the track down a rockier flight of stairs... Some tracks are bleary and boisterous with plenty of rootsy charm, others a beautiful lament full of heartache and defiant resignation... - Irish Times