Ardit Gjebrea¿s Projekt Jon av Professor or Dr. Nicholas (Head of Musicology and Ethnomusicology University of Melbourne Australia) Tochka

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<b>As market reforms and migration transformed Albania in the early 1990s, Ardit Gjebrea began mixing traditional folk music with world music and Italian pop. The resulting album, <i>Projekt Jon </i>(1997), provided a new model for song¿Western and cosmopolitan, yet firmly rooted in the fertile soil of the nation¿against a backdrop of deepening political uncertainty about the very future of Albania.</b> The Ionian Project announced itself with the frenetic beating of the <i>daull¿i> and the traditional cries of Albania¿s highland shepherd. This sprawling collaboration between singer-songwriter Ardit Gjebrea, folk singer Hysni Zela, producer Paul Mazzolini, and a team of crack studio musicians in Italy, had an outsized ambition: to transcend the small postsocialist nation-state¿s borders, imaginatively crafting through sound a new home in Europe for its citizens. But as Gjebrea prepared to launch <i>Projekt Jon</i>, violence prompted by the collapse of widespread pyramid schemes threate