Smithsonian Folkways Recordings has announced that Bosnian traditional music vocalist, guitarist and composer Damir Imamović will release a new album for the label in 2023. The Sarajevo–based artist topped the Transglobal World Music Chart in July 2020.
Imamović will release new music on Smithsonian Folkways in 2023 as a part of a genre-spanning collaboration with Bosnian-American author Aleksandar Hemon, who will publish The World and All That It Holds through MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux in January 2023, an epic novel of love and loss that spans decades and continents in which sevdah and the music of Sarajevo play a key role.
“I am honored that my next album will come out on Smithsonian Folkways,” said Imamović. “The last album of Bosnian music that appeared on the label was in the early nineties as the country was going through the war, and it consisted of archival recordings. This time, I am happy to present my contemporary take on the Bosnian traditional music.”
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