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  Composed by Boris Kovač (GEMA, Sokoj for Serbia)
  
  Performed by the New Ritual Ensemble
  Boris Kovač – soprano & alto sax
  Svetlana Spajić - alto
  Milica Šuica - mezo soprano
  Slobodanka Stević – piano
  Siniša Mazalica – double bass
  Lav Kovač – drums, percussion
  Aleksandra Krčmar - I violin
  Jovanka Mazalica - II violin
  Jelena Filipović - viola
  Timea Kalmar - cello
  Saša Panić - bassoon
  Goran Penić - accordion
  Vukašin Mišković - cl. guitar
  
  Recorded at the old Synagogue, Novi Sad, and at Kachara MM Studio, Bukovac, in winter 2009/2010. Mixed at KACHARA MM Studio in Bukovac.
  Produced by Boris Kovač.
  Recorded and mixed by Boris Kovač, assisted by Ljuba Pejić
  Mastered by Athens Mastering, Athens
  
  Original photos for the CD graphic design created by Dejan Djuragić
  Photos of the musicians by DALE & VANJUS
  Design by 33
  
  More than a quarter of a century ago, during his first recordings as composer, musician and musical director, Boris Kovač used his Ritual Nova group to break many rules and destroy many boundaries. Springing forth from the worlds of jazz and improvised music, drawn to chamber composition, galvanized by the vast repository of images and memories integral to folk music and obsessed with myths whose truths are truer than truth itself (but not by any single mythology that tells only one facet of truth), Kovač entered the Yugoslav and international scene with a deeply personal music that spoke in a bold, universal language. Favouring an alchemical philosophy of combining disparate elements over an academic methodology... adhering more to the logic of dreams than to a postmodern approach... the rituals offered by Kovač could never be defined in historical or cultural terms; at most one could attempt to delineate them in "geographical" terms – in as much as one might perceive the ground one stands on and the air one breathes as sounds and harmonies.
  No one knew how to classify this music, no one could even describe it.
  In any case, those were other times.
  Catalogue of Memories celebrates musical memories of contemplations and dances from before we were born, while it also maps futures that extend not merely to the end of History itself but to the ends of all our personal histories. It sets us free to be whoever we wish to be - even if only ourselves. Contemplative but not indolent, playful but not vulgar, it does not even need to put ugliness to shame this time: it has indeed absorbed it, made it part of the big picture, metamorphosed it into unexpected harmonic forms and broken rhythms without ever abandoning grace. No rules, Kovač remembers, no boundaries... Let cartographers deal with those – he is too busy cataloguing his memories and finding in them things he never remembers remembering. How many future memories can we expect from a man talking about drawing a line and going into musical retirement? To judge by his latest live performances in which he dances ever more fiercely, plays ever more fervently – we could say that Boris is only just embarking on his memories.
  So, make a cup of a warm tea, we will be here for quite a while…
  
  Uroš Smiljanić, Belgrade, December 2012.
  
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