Jani Kutin, vocals, lyrics, flute, goat horn
Marjan Stani / percussion / drums
Matej Magajne, electric guitar, bass guitar
Andrea Pandolfo, trumpet, wing horn, piano
Dejan Lapanja, drums, acoustic guitar, bass guitar
Only Quince, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, balafon, BRAC,
Hurd music Gurd music, bass harp, n'goni, soundtracks
First there was Bakalina ; a duo of self – made musicians-songwriter and singer, language farmer-poet, Jani Kutin and accordionist Renata Lapanja . In almost a decade since its inception, Bakalina's contemporary-folk Vize and socially critical and lyrical messages, sung in chadrian language, have been carried from Tolmin end from the largest concert venues to the most remote villages. With each concert and album, Bakalina also grew and became Bakalina Velika, in which members of Jani's former collective Salamandra Salamandra (only Kutin, Dejan Lapanja, Matej Magajne) and associated cameradry – percussionist Marjan Stani / and Roman-Trieste trumpeter Andrea Pandolfo.
So far, they have released two albums – the first krajec rose in the spring of 2021, followed by Zviezdna srebruo the year before last . The repertoire from the latter record, recorded entirely at various locations in the natural environment of Gorizia and its wider surroundings (on a snow-covered mountain, in a cave, by a river, among trees, on mountain pastures, in the ruins of an old church, under a century-old crusader's tepka) will form the framework of the concert in Nova Gorica, where the band will also present new instruments (lyre, flutes and drum) made of millennial chadrian fir wood. The group is intensively preparing a new album, so that the audience can also expect some premiere , and certainly a new hit Suoch, dedicated to the Sochi River.
Jani Kutin , vokal, besedila, piščal, kozji rog
Marjan Stanić , tolkala, bobni
Matej Magajne , električna kitara, bas kitara
Andrea Pandolfo , trobenta, krilni rog, klavir
Dejan Lapanja , bobni, akustična kitara, bas kitara
Samo Kutin , bas kitara, akustična kitara, balafon, brač,
hurdy gurdy, bas harfa, n’goni, zvočila
Najprej je bila Bakalina ; duo samorastniških glasbenikov – tekstopisca in pevca, jezičnega kmeta-poeta, Janija Kutina in harmonikarke Renate Lapanja . V skoraj desetletju od nastanka so Bakalino njene sodobno-ljudske viže ter družbenokritična in lirična sporočila, odpeta v čadrski govorici, iz tolminskega konca ponesle od največjih koncertnih prizorišč do najbolj odročnih vasi. Z vsakim koncertom in albumom pa je rasla tudi Bakalina in postala Bakalina Velika , v kateri godejo člani Janijevega nekdanjega kolektiva Salamandra Salamandra (Samo Kutin, Dejan Lapanja, Matej Magajne) ter pridružena kameradrija – tolkalist Marjan Stanić in rimsko-tržaški trobentač Andrea Pandolfo.
Doslej so izdali dva albuma – Prvi krajec je vzšel spomladi leta 2021, predlani pa mu je sledilo Zviezdna srebruo . Prav repertoar s slednje plošče, v celoti posnete na različnih lokacijah v naravnem okolju goriške in širše okolice (na zasneženi gori, v jami, ob reki, med drevesi, na planinskih pašnikih, v ruševinah stare cerkve, pod stoletno Križarjevo tepko) bo predstavljal ogrodje koncerta v Novi Gorici, kjer bo zasedba predstavila tudi nove inštrumente (liro, piščali in boben), izdelane iz tisočletnega lesa čadrške jelke. Skupina namreč intenzivno pripravlja nov album, tako da lahko občinstvo pričakuje tudi kakšno premiero, zagotovo pa tudi novo uspešnico Suoča , posvečeno reki Soči.
