Black Earth has eleven traditional Macedonian songs infused with African aesthetics, including Gnawa undertones, Congo rumba, and African field recordings. The core of the traditional Macedonian harmonies and rhythms was developed over the centuries from the Ancient Greek and Roman Empire’s lyricism, Byzantium’s chants, and the Ottoman Empire’s classical music progressions, by way of multiple migrations, storytelling, wars, myths, tribalism, reconciliations, etc.) In a nutshell, Black Earth is a filtrate of the trans-generational transmission of resilience, trauma, love, and naivete. Kristo Rodzevski – vocals, acoustic guitar, tambura Dominic James – electric guitar Josh Werner – bass Adam Rudolph – sintir, percussion Bill Laswell – bass, field recordings mixed & produced by Bill Laswell Design: ajax19 (Alan J Bond) Paintings: Anastasios Babatzias Released September 5, 2023 User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.