Albania

Country: Albania
Government: Parliamentary republic
Capital: Tirana
Official languages: Albanian
Population: 3.6 million


I started out by browsing through my rather limited collection of Balkan songs but all artist were from either Romania or Serbia so I started to google instead.

After a couple of hit and miss ones I found the clarinetist Laver Bariu who's here laying quickfingered and mourning melodies over a minimalistic one-chord drone:ish wall of sound.




And another more upbeat and non-instrumental.


And to not totally dedicate this post to old men with old instruments I'll also include Albanias own destinys child, Elvana Gjata.