20 Mar 2020

Pines & other stories


recordings from the Inner island site-specific series of ambient and improvisational music.

released January 26, 2020

Ratko Lazić, Manja Ristić, Marko Paunović, Igor Stangliczky.

All recordings are ambient archives captured with Tascam DR-05.




track no 1 - recorded under the old pine trees overlooking Pelješac canal in South Adriatic, a few kilometers off the village of Lumbarda, at the site called Lenga.

the locale used to be an open quarry, where stonemasons were cutting and shaping lime rock into big blocks. Hundreds of years later the landscape is fully overtaken by Mediterranean flora & fauna, having old square cuts reshaped by the sea salt and with dense pine forest hiding old trade tracks.

track no 2 - in the stone house of the Popović family (sculptor Adriana Popović, architects Nataša & Tiana Popović, painter Ljuba Popović) on the tiny island of Vrnik off the Korčula town in South Adriatic, we gathered the crowd from the house and village to give an improvisational performance.

With used objects and instruments found in the surrounding; built instruments, old radios, acoustic guitars, pots, tools & buckets, stones from the famous Vrnik quarry (dating all the way from the Roman period), violin, small gong & bells, mouth harmonica, survival blanket, music box, along with magical soundscape coming through open doors and windows, waves, crickets, boats passing by, children murmuring, dogs barking.