Anjeza Shahini in FiK 2009

In times of no news, Albavision uses that situation to bring some articles about the past. In the first episode of "Flashback", we want to take a closer look at Anjeza Shahihi and the song "Ne pasqyre", which would have represented Albania in the ESC 2010 if Juliana had denied to travel to Oslo for Albania, because Anjeza came second in the FiK 2009.

It was with Anjeza, when Albania debuted in the ESC 2004, managing to land a place 7 on the final ranking with the song "The Image of You". To this day no other participant set a better score for us. The news of Anjeza Shahini being back to the Festivali i kenges 2009 was therefore big news in November '09. High hopes of a second representation by Anjeza at the ESC could be felt of many ESC fans, making her the favourite to win the 48th FiK.

Anjeza at FiK '09

In November (09) the newspaper "Shekulli" published an Interview with Anjeza in which she talked about the song she would compete with and her attitude to another ESC representation. She made clear it would be the traditional Festival she returns to not the ESC in first place, nonetheless saying that she would not reject an offer for a ticket to Oslo. Additionally she told the magazine that Sokol Marsi, the composer of "Ne pasqyre" came to Anjeza and asked her if she would interprete that song at the Festivali i kenges as he had thought her voice fitted perfectly for the song.

The day of Albanian National final 2009 had come and it was Anjeza Shahini opening the whole festival as act #1 of night 1, receiving an outstanding welcome by the audience.

See Anjezas performance at the FiK 2009 below

These are the english lyrics translated by Albavision :

In the mirror

You appear in my mirror,

always a different face.

I want to touch it, it does not speak

One piece of crystal without life.

Maybe it doesn't like me and will fool me.

How I'd like to say, that it's still me.

Refrain:

No, I don't believe you,

I'm still the same i was yesterday, only with make up,

don't fool me.

No, better forget it.

You're an unreal mask,

you don't let me breathe, you're lifeless.

Behind the mirror I search you.

I fear that you may break.

I fear to touch you,

so we both cannot break.

No, I still don't know 

why are you still looking into my eyes?

What it does and doesn't show me at the same time.

Belive me, it's still me.

Refrain

Refrain 2:

I don't know why i love you.

I don't know why i hate you.

You are another me,

my real me would not fool me.

I do not belive the mirror anymore

I'm still the one I was yesterday.

This make-up only only fools the eyes

and the soul doesn't recongnize itself anymore.

Refrain

Refrain 2

When the voting procedure on the final night began, the first juries awarded their highscore of 20 points to Juliana Pasha and "Nuk mundem pa ty" a song which was a actually mostly unnoticed song in the line-up and all those sets of 20 points for Juliana made the whole voting phase look a bit inter-coordinated and monotone. The winner was clear after the first few sets of votes, with a distance to place two that couldn't be overtaken anyhow. Nevertheless, the only set of 20 points to Anjeza Shahini of one of the last jury member catapulted Anjeza onto place 2 and made the crowd go exessively wild, which had been never seen before in the National final (possibly only Kejsi's win in 2008 had a likewise euphoric crowd) and makes that moment a historic moment in the long history of FiK.

This was the first Flashback. Hope you like these kind of articles....

End of the Albanian tradition

Since it's debut at the Eurovision Songcontest, Albania was the first to choose a represantative for the ESC every year until now. This had become a little tradition for the Eurovision Family in the last 7 years.

This season, for several reasons it seems that an other country will have its ESC represantative first:

1) Cyprus and Belgium already start in September with a search for an ESC talent

2) The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has decided that the ESC songs of 2011 can already be published from 01.09.10 on for the very first time, up to this ESC season the release-date had been the 1st October, which allow Cyprus (1) already to publish possible ESC entries that early.

3) Today Switzerland reported that they're new national final system will take place in early December, before the Albanian "Festivali i kenges", which is yet to be dated (mid-December).

4) Albania most likely wont change the old tradition of its festival taking place in December though, just to keep the short ESC tradition...

It is therefore most likely to have the frist ESC contestant + song from some other ESC country for the first time in 8 years and cutting a little record on the early ESC scene.

Nevertheless it has yet to be announced of the Albanian delegation, that we see Albania in ESC 2011 and whether the FiK stays their National Final (last year after Juliana's victory that was discussed in a talk show by the producers) . Albavision stays tuned on information of RTSH-sides...

Besa wins prize in Ohrid festival.

Besa at Ohrid festival -Click for full view

In a previous article we informed about the participation of Besa Kokedhima in  the Ohrid festival in Macedonia. Now she wrote on her facebook fanpage about the outcome of the festival. She achieved winnning the prize "Best Performance" with the song "Versus" she competed with against 25 other particpants from the whole Balkan, one of them being Marko Kon, Serbian represantative 2009 in ESC, according to the Iliria News Agency.

Congrations to Besa. :)

Exclusive: Dorina Garuci Interview!

Dorina Garuci: "Still don't know if I'm going to participate this year again"

Dorina Garuci

Dorina Garuci, participant in the last two "Festivali i kenges", the Albanian National Final for the Eurovision Songcontest, talks with us about her previous experiences on the FK stage and future plans.

She was participant in the Albanian "Idol" version and was together with Kejsi Tola (Esc 09) under in the final round. In 2 years she has already made a name in the Albanian music scene and it's our pleasure to promote this fantastic voice on our page.

Read the full interview translated from Albanian into English below.

Hi Dorina, last year it has been your second participation in the "Festivali i kenges". Could you imagine to represent Albania at the ESC one day?

For me it has been a pleasure to take part in this festival. Surely, the live singing has attracted me to take part.

Fans of the ESC who have listened to the song "Sekreti i dashurise" in the National final last year said that the song had similarities to the Song "Hero" by Charlotte Perelli from Sweden in ESC 2008. Have already heard "Hero" and what do you say about those rumours?

I have heard of these rumours and also listened to the song "Hero", but i can tell you that all in all there are 7 notes similar, which lets both songs seem "confusingly" similar. The harmony of the two songs though, is different from one each other. It means, that maybe the songs may seem similar to the untrained ear of the mass, but for the professional musician it is simply a coincidence, as the harmonies of the songs are completely different.

Will we see you on the FK stage this december again?

I still don't know if I'm going to participate this year again, because it is one intense year for me as I am in my last school year and i have to invest much into it. Nevertheless, we'll see the offers. :)

From RTSH till now we haven't received any information about the dates of the next Festivali.i.K. You as an artist, do you have any information yet about the next edition of the F.K.?

About the dates I only know that the closeline for songsubmissions is in mid-October, while the FK nights will take place probably in Mid-December.

What are other future plans of you? Want to greet your fans of Albavision.tk?

Most recently we have produced a clip to the song "Me ty prane zemres". To all my fans, I hope you'll like it :)

Thank you very much for the interview !     

   Dorina Garuci - Sekreti i dashurise - Festivali i kenges 2009

Besa K. to represent Albania in Ohrid Festival

Besa Kokedhima

Besa Kokedhima, former participant in the Albanian National Final (08 & 09 ) is going to take part in the Ohrid Festival in Macedonia today (28th of August 2010) for Albania with the song "Versus" and is going to compete against 13 other contestants from all over Balkan.
More about the outcome as soon as available.

You can listen to the Albanian Version of "Versus" here below. There is also an English version of Versus (Link)

News of the Albanian ESC Stars...

First news comes from the Albanian local magazine "Anabel", which held an Interview with Ledina Celo (Esc 05), who seems to have returned to Albania, after being part of a british dance show and recording the single "Dangerous" which was remixed by Scotty, a famous DJ.

Photo of the magazine "Anabel"

In the interview she told the magazine that she would like to take part more in Albanian music competitions in near future. Whether the next "Festivali i kenges" belongs to one of these Festivals is yet unknown. Albavision.tk contacted Ledina and is yet waiting for a respond. Ledina Celo's come back in FK?
Also, she has released a new single called "Superstretching". The song can be listened to and bought here.

Frederik Ndoci

Second news comes from Frederik Ndoci (Esc 07) who is tonight giving his last concert in Velipoje (Northalbania) in the club "Kapiten Zhik" which after own statements more than 35.000 people visited this summer season, many also from Kosovo.

Albavision Summerhit competition 2010

Not much time and the summer season 2010 is over. In Albania and Kosovo we have had a couple of new songs, trying to be a summerhit; some more, some less successful.
From these songs two particular come from former "Festivali i Këngës" stars. Those two songs are now duelling for the title of the "2010 Albavision Summerhit", which can only be awarded to artists which are related to the Albanian National final for the Eurovision Songcontest.

We present you the two songs and in the next 4 weeks you get the time to vote for the song you liked more in the poll on the right.

And here are our two nominees:

Summerhit 1: Elvana Gjata - A ke ti zemer

Elvana Gjata has participated in the Festivali i Këngës 2003 with the song "Pranë teje", the edition Anjeza Shahini won. She failed passing the semifinal though. Nevertheless it was a begin of a very successful career, being nowadays one of the most known and popular Albanian Pop and RnB singers. This summer her song "A ke ti zemer" (Do you have [a] heart) was another huge hit and therefore rightly in our duell for our title 'Summerhit 2010'


Competitor No.1: Elvana Gjata - A ke ti zemer
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Summerhit 2: Aurela Gaçe ft Dr.Flori & Marsel - Origjinale 

Here we have the competition for Elvana, the team around Aurela Gaçe, who is an Albanian Icon and the winner of the "Festivali i Këngës 1999 & 2001". 36 years young Aurela has landed an outstanding hit this year, with "Origjinale" and Dr.Flori, who compsed the song and Marsel, who was not formely known in the music scene before. The song can be heard out of every second car in the streets and a strong contestant for the title. Whether it's the song or the voice or Marsel that made the song become that popular is wildly discussed by fans of the song. Make up your own mind.


Competitor No2: Aurela Gaçe ft Dr.Flori & Marsel - Origjinale 

You can vote now in the poll on the right side an tell us which one's your favourite. Additionally, the comment section below is there for any other reaction you'd like to share :D

Poll analysis summer 2010

Our 3 polls on the right side are closed now and with 21 voters taking part in question one, the polls weren't as lively discussed as the ones before the Eurovision Songcontest, which is normal due to post-ESC-season and our own summerbreak.
Anyway, here is the outcome of the polls which may be repeated again in the beginning of next year:

Our first question was "What was your favourite Albanian ESC song?" 

Albanias first representative and the most succesful Albanian entry to date, "The image of you" by Anjeza Shahini, is still one of the most popular Albanian songs in many international polls. Surprisingly only 1 of 21 voters said this song was his favourite. Another person said "Zjarr e ftohte" of 2006 by Luiz Ejlli was his favourite, leaving these two songs with each 4% of all votes on place 4 of the ranking. Only the 2007 entry "Hear my plea" had less votes and therefore zero. With each 9% of all votes "Tomorrow I go" and "Carry me in your dreams" share place 3. 

Albavision-Queen 2010

With 5 votes (23%) "Zemren e lame peng" by Olta Boka is the 2nd most favourited Albanian ESC song by the Albavision visitors.

The golden medal goes to wonderful Juliana Pasha and "It's all about you" with almost 50% of the votes! The song still seems to have a massive effect on our visitors. If Juliana can keep the position #1 next year when another artist is the most recent Albanian represantive, we'll find out in 2011. Congrats to Juliana for now!

Complete Albavision popularity ranking 2010:

1) Juliana Pasha - It's all about you - 2010

2) Olta Boka - Zemren e lame peng - 2008

3) Ledina Celo - Tomorrow I go - 2005

    Kejsi Tola - Carry me in your dreams - 2009

4) Anjeza Shahini - The image of you - 2004

    Luiz Ejlli - Zjarr e ftohte - 2006

5) Frederik Ndoci - Hear my plea - 2007

The other two questions had to less responds to do a real analysis at this point. But as said, in the actual ESC-Season we will post these questions again :D

More facts, backgrounds, features & exclusiveness!

On our mission to become the #1 Newsprovider in terms of the Albanian Eurovision scene, we have been thinking about many things we could do on this page, to reach our goal:

Therefore we keep adressing former Festivali i kenges arists and the Abanian ESC broadcaster RTSH for interviews and exclusive news.

We are still awaiting some responses, some artists have responded already. So be prepared for exclusive news and backgrounds that no other page have & be the first to read it.

We have also added the posibilities to follow us through Twitter and Facebook, so that everytime there is some news about Albania@ESC you will be informed straight away, if you follow us through one of these networks.

Also, every article can now be shared on your facebook, twitter, blogger and googleaim page or be sent to friends via Email with only one click on one of the symbols under the articles next to the comment feature.

In near future Albavision.tk will open it's own Youtube channel to upload own videos.

In future, this blog will serve you with more history and news about former Festivali i kenges(FK) Stars. This means we'll have articles about former FK songs with lyrics + translation. (You can always request songs!)

We'll have a look at other music project of the FK stars and Alb. ESC Stars, too.

Other categories, as our Albavision-Charts or the soon presented "Albavision Summerhit 2010 competition" and more surprises await you here!

We are still searching for an own Logo and own an Slogan for the page. Ideas can be sent to Albavision@live.de or write us in the comments.

This is only the beginning, your Albavision-Team!

The Albavision Top 15 (August 2010)

As we said, before the summer break, this blog will have many new features after the break, we keep that promise. In one of our next articles you will be blown away by the all the new sections, series and features we have prepared for you, to make this site the number one Albanian ESC fanpage :)
One of the new series is the Albavision-Charts, a Top 15 of the most played song by the Albavision editors and writers.
The Albavision-Charts will be updated every month, so you can see what was played most by us in the last 4 weeks.

So here we go for the first Top-15

1) Juliana Pasha - It's all about you (ESC '10) - played 49 times

2) Monrose (German NF '07) - This is me - played 49 times

3) Safura - Drip Drop (ESC '10) - played 33x

4) Velile & Safri Duo - Helele (Klaas remix) - 33x

5) Juliana Pasha - Nuk mundem pa ty - 26x

6) Madcon (ESC '10) - Glow - 25x

7) Hari Mata Hari (BiH '06) - Lejla - 24x

8) Nora Istrefi - 2 shoke - 24x

9) Immediate Music - Fahrenheit - 23x

10) Yolanda Be Cool - We no speak Americano - 23x

11) Alyosha (Ukr '10) - Sweet people - 20x

12) Immediate Music - Believe - 19x

13) Marina and the Diamonds - Oh No! - 19x

14) Jason Darulo - Whatcha say (Afrojack remix) - 18x

15) Juliana Pasha -It's all about you (Skopje version) - 18x

Featured song: 8) Nora Istrefi - 2 shoke - 24x


Next Albavision Top 15 Charts will be optimized...

Olta Boka's new song, a duet with her father.

Olta Boka, Albanian representative of 2008 in Belgrade, recorded a new song together with her father. The folk music orientated song "Tak tak, ja bën tek porta" (English: Knock Knock, on the door) was performed on the "Festivali Maratona e këngës popullore" where mostly folk music songs are presented.
Also other former "Festivali i këngës (FK)" performer take part in this festival, such as Aurela Gace (FK Winner '99 & '01) and Irma and Eranda Libohova (FKWinners '87).

The performance in low quality here (updatet with better quality as soon as online)


"Oh lë te flasin, ato që dua une do ta marr"

Back from the summer break!

Hello, back in Germany, Albavision.tk enters a new phase, be prepared for more articles and features in the next weeks.

But for now, i shall show you a new Albanian cover version of "Dum Tek Tek", the Turkish Eurovision Songcontest song in 2009. The song was covered by famous Montenegrin-Albanian singer Nikolle Nikprelaj, who is known to sing traditional albanian folk music.
His style of singing might sound strangely to non-Albanians, but it's pretty popular on the home market.
Make your own idea of the Albanian version of "Dum tek tek"!



Exclusively on Albavision.tk for you: The lyrics and translation of the refrain

Albanian:
Së bashku t'a kalojmë sonte për gëzuar me përqafim
Une jam zemra jote e ti je shpirti im.
Së bashku të vallzojmë sonte me këtë rritëm dum tek tek
Më djeg kjo buza jote, sa herë që më puth e më prek.

English:

Together we'll spend this night for fun with embracement

I am your heart and you are my soul.

Together we'll dance tonight to this 'dum tek tek' rhythm

Your lips burn me, everytime you kiss and touch me.

Btw, that is Montenegrin Albanian :) which differs in some parts from original Albanian, f.e. that in Montenegro the Albanians use 'e' instead of 'dhe' for the word and.


Don't miss to vote in the polls on the right side!!!

Albavision's annual Summer break

"Hello you there, :)

Someday this weekend I will have left Germany and set foot on the ground of my motherland Albania and stay for 4 to 5 weeks in that country and in Kosovo & Montengro to visit family and friends and do some vacations.

As being quite busy all the time there and an access to the Internet is not always available everywhere, posts by me will be rarer these weeks, at least from my side, as luckily, there's still Ole to post any big or small news about Albania at the ESC. When I'm back, this blog will feature new elements. So don't miss to visit us from time to time. :D

Until then, I have left some polls to the right, vote and share your thought :)

analisys of the outcome after the summerbreak :D

Pershendetje dhe tung, Arben! "

Albavision poll analysis.

From 2nd of April to the first semifinal of the ESC 2010 in Oslo, we asked our visitors to take part in our polls on the right of the page and first of all: to get an overall of 120 responses in 3 polls in such a short time is quite amazing for us, as the page was totally new in web two months ago.

Our first question was: What do you think of "It's all about you"?

87% of the 47 voters in this poll answered with "It's awesome", which shouldn't be a surprise though as this page is probably mainly found and visited by either Albanians or people who love the Albanian entry 2010 in first place. Nevertheless, we can see people on this page were mainly satisfied with the Albanian selection for 2010. :D Only 4 people voted for "It' good" and two for "It's ok"/"It's bad".

And also most of the voters agreed when it came to the next question: "Where do you predict Albania to end up this year?"

Taking into account, that it's up to televoters AND juries to decide on the winner at ESC, 88% of the 43 voters said Albania will rank a "Top 10" and guessed wrong consequently, me being one of them to be honest. Only 5 people bet a position between "11th and 25th in the final" and guessed right as Albania ended up at place 16. None of the voters thought Albania would stuck in the semifinal, which did not happen either.:D


In the last question ("Will Albania benefit from the juries this year?") voters didn't agree as much as in the first two polls though.
Albania would have had achieved a 12th place if it was for Juries to decide 100% on the winner and a 17th place if only televoting had been taken into account on the final night. Therefore 60% of our voters guessed right by clicking option "Yes, they [Albania] will profit very much". The other 40% guessed wrong thinking Albania would either be voted same by televoters and juries or lose positions thanks to the juries.

THANK YOU to all voters
Have a say in the comments if you have ideas why Albania may have ended up worse than predicted by us, or if some fact struck you etc... :D