Žan Tetičkovič: The Port of Life III. – From Where To Forever / Od koder je vedno

Running time: Concert lasts approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes

Lepo je v naši domovini biti mlad / My Country Is the Best Place to Be Young

A new musical narrative woven by composer and drummer Žan Tetičkovič, who is carving an illustrious musical career in the US. The two-time winner of the American Society of Composers and Publishers Young Jazz Composers Award concludes his trilogy, The Port of Life, with a concert at the CD Club. Parts I and II draw on Tetičkovič’s his first-hand experience of migration, and Part III – through an interplay of musical motifs and rich orchestral textures – addresses the issues of collective unconscious, transience, as well as metaphysical closeness and distance.

Žan Tetičkovič, drums, composer; Alba Nacinovich, vocals; Tomaž Gajšt, trumpet and fluegelhorn; Lenart Krečič, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Jani Moder, guitar; Marko Črnčec, piano; Matija Krečič, first violin; Nejc Avbelj, second violin; Gea Pantner, viola; Zoran Bičanin, violoncello, Matej Hotko doublebass

Od koder za vedno (From Where to Forever) – the epilogue of The Port of Life trilogy (2017 ASCAP Johnny Mandel Composition Prize) – is a full-length composition for jazz septet and string quartet by New York-based composer and jazz drummer Žan Tetičkovič, and the completion of the composer's long journey through a period of immigration and assimilation. 

While The Port of Life Parts I (2016) and II (2020) are musical travelogues of the artist's migration experience, Part III raises larger issues of the collective unconscious, transience and metaphysical closeness or distance through an intertwined interplay of musical motifs and orchestral harmonies, foregrounding the longing for immigration perpetuity, that is, the symbiosis between the concepts of time, space and individualism. The project's title, From Where To Forever, draws inspiration from psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s AION, constituting the target point of the musical trilogy, which subjects the unknowable space (From Where) and temporal eternity (To Forever) to the process of the author's individuation, rendering them powerless in terms of migration anxiety.

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