“Folk Songs, recorded in front of an audience, is a wild ride. Stanković stretches out drone notes, extemporises around them, divines uncanny resonances from her instrument, and vocalises over the whole lot, so that by the time the song elements arrive on “Song For The Queen” and “Song For The Bees”, it’s as if they’ve been dredged up from deep in the memory. She does not just sing but yodels, hiccups and hollers, with the vocals like the violin skirting the boundary between tone and noise. The singing alongside a solo string instrument can’t help but recall Arthur Russell’s World Of Echo a little, but Folk Songs is less of an inward exploration, and more of an openended people’s music.”

Slow Motion

Derek Walmsley

"While her debut release zeroed in on a large chunk of contemporary impro, Folk Songs digs deeper into age old folk signatures while still keeping a watchful eye or two on that very important chance element. This is perfectly encapsulated by “Song for the Bees” and “Jano Mori”. Inspired by a ritual song of the beekeeper, the former track seemingly heads towards a bout of rosin-deficient bowing, in order to get that extra bark and bite, while the latter sees Tijana extending and embellishing themes from a traditional song that originated from Macedonia."

The Sound Projector

Steve Pescott

"La serba Tijana Stanković (1984), vocalist, violinista, improvvisatrice, etnomusicologa e conduttrice radiofonica, è una musicista viaggiatrice nell'Europa danubiana. Artista dalla curiosità intelligente, ha collaborato con figure della musica improvvisata come il compositore e violista Mezei Szilárd, il violoncellista Márkos Albert, il sassofonista Miroslav Tóth, Ana Kravanja, violinista del gruppo sloveno Širom, e molti altri. Ha partecipato a numerosi e variegati progetti in Serbia, Ungheria e Romania, tra cui ricordiamo Argo, Rođenice, l’Hyperion Ensemble di Iancu Dumitrescu, la Mezei Szilard’s Improvisers Orchestra, l'Identity’s Dream Quartet e il duo con Sőrés Zsolt. Più di recente, ha collaborato al vorticoso progetto etno-noise Lenhart Tapes."

Foolk Magazine

 Ciro De Rosa

"Тияна Станкович — скрипачка, вокалистка, музыковед и радиоведущая из Сербии. В своей музыке, как и в научных изысканиях, она занимается одновременно современной импровизационной музыкой и народными песнопениями. «Folk Songs» — ее второй сольный альбом после дебюта «Freezer», выпущенного в 2020 году на словацком лейбле LOM. С первых же движений смычка Тияна удерживает внимание слушателя и погружает его в свой собственный звуковой контекст, где современные техники игры на скрипке соседствуют с характерными голосовыми приемами из фольклора."

Jazzist

Илья Белоруков