No Juliana at FiK 2010

In an interview to esctoday and another to Telegrafi Juliana Pasha (ESC '10) revealed some news we'd like to summarize in this short article:

Before ESC '10

• Juliana Pasha stated that whe won't participate in this years Albanian National final for the Eurovision Songcontest 2011 as she wants to enjoy her first place of last year a little longer, but she can imagine representing Albania one day again.
• Her album with Christian songs is still being produced and gave away that her fans can expect some surprises in the future and a mellow Juliana when she comes back with new projects.
• It is one of her superior goals to bring important messages through her new songs to the audience in future. We can only prepare ourselves and wait.

The Albavision Summerhit 2010!

The polls have been closed and the we have the first winner of the Albavision Summerhit competition, in which only former Albanian National Final Stars with a Summerhit are allowed to be part of.
This year we started with a simple Duel between two enormous hits of Albania:

On the one side Elvana Gjata with "A ke ti zemer" and on the other Aurela Gaçe, Dr. Flori and Marsel with "Origjinale".

Starting off as a neck-and-neck race, the team around Aurela could gain the upper hand after more votes arrived. In the end Aurela Gaçe won the competition, being voted most by our participating visitors with 2/3 % of the votes.
Therfore Aurela Gaçe are the firsts to win the web Award and title "Albavision Summerhit". Congrats and thank you to all voters.
The video of Origjinale is being played on the banner for one week as a prize.

Songtext: Sa e shite zëmrën

The lyrics of "sa e shite zëmrën" are now available, uploaded on Juliana Pasha's Facebook page.

Po ta le ty rradhen qe ta puthesh friken

ose mbyllim te ty syte,dhe njeri iken

Merri ti me vete fjalet dhe muziken

Se te gjitha kenget kane shtate nota

Por ajo qe mbeti,si nje kujtim

Eshte ky motiv aaaa

                      ***

Jo nuk ka gjithmone vetem dite me shi

Ka edhe dite me diell kur nuk je me ti

Kush shpeton I gjalle behet me I forte tani

Arratisja jote me befasoj,koha ty sekretin do ta zbuloj

Sa e shite zemren une se di

                      ***

Pse e humbe sensin,ku tu err drejtimi

Nje avion mbi re nuk bie ne dite dimri

As apeli fundit  nuk ta ndali ritmin

Se ti kishe kohen per te ikur

Por  pa  dashuri  sdo jesh me asgje

Nje grusht hi,aaaa

                   ***

Jo nuk ka gjithmone vetem dite me shi

Ka edhe dite me diell kur nuk je me ti

Kush shpeton I gjalle behet me I forte tani

Arratisja jote me befasoj,koha ty sekretin do ta zbuloj

Sa e shite zemren une se di

Nuk kam se si ta di,sa e shite zemren,zemer

Koha do ta thote, nje dite

                        ***

Arratisja jote me befasoj

Koha ty sekretin do ta zbuloj

Sa e shite zemren une se di

Se di, se di, se di, nuk ka mundesi ,se di

pse zemren shite ti

                      ***

Jo nuk ka gjithmone vetem dite me shi

Ka edhe dite me diell kur nuk je me ti

Kush shpeton i gjalle behet me i forte tani

Arratisja jote ,me befasoje

Koha ty sekretin do ta zbuloj

Sa e shite zemren une se di

Exclusive: Juliana's & Luiz' new song!

As announced in the previous article Juliana Pasha and Luiz Ejlli preformed their new song "Sa e shite zëmrën?" (For how much did you sell your heart?), produced by none other than Pirro Çako, one of the big names in the Festivali i këngës scene.
And for you, we recorded the performence in audio and video version and upload it here exclusively for our visitors to hear it first!(Ole did the Audio work and Arben the Video work, so it's a real team thing!)
This is the song, with which they will compete at the "Kënga magjike" by the way.

Audio version:



Video Version: 

(because my internet broke during the recording, it's only half the liveperformence, i'm very sorry)

Do you like the new duet?

News of Juliana and Kejsi.

Juliana Pasha (Esc '10) stated that tomorrow she will present her brandew single, a duet with Luiz Ejlli (Esc '06), with which they will compete in the 'Kënga Magjike' in November, in Ardit Gjebra's show "E diela". Ardit Gjebra is the composer of "It's all about you" and has maybe also created the new duet of Juliana and Luiz. 

Juliana Pasha

To watch "e diela shqiptare" tomorrow at around 16:30 p.m. click this link and click on TV Klan for the channel.

Info to all Albanians: Tonight (25th) she will be singing live in the "Beergarden" in Tirana.

Another news come from esctoday.com who report that Kejsi Tola told a "local newspaper" that due to her start at the University of Arts she won't have much time to concentrate on her musical career in the near future. Therefore a participation at the Festivali i këngës is doubtable though not completly impossible as she stated to see what offers come. We wish Kejsi a wonderful start at the Academy and hope to see her back in the music scene soon! :)

Some random news

 

In these weeks there have been more news about Albanian National final stars, which would not have had enough content to fill a whole article alone, therefore they are summed up in this little sort of 'Newsflash'.

Helena Paparizou:

The Greek winner of the ESC 2005 is coming to the Qemal Stafa Stadium in Albania on Saturday. In Tirana she will hold a concert alongside other famous Musicians from Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. The entrance costs a bit more than 3 €, which makes more than clear that sponsors pay this concert mostly. In this case mostly Greek companies in Albania.

Besa Kokëdhima:
Many news from the FiK contestant in for ESC '09. She is going to be part of the Helena Paparizou concert in Tirana on Saturday, singing 3 songs of her repertoire. One of the songs she will present though is going to be the most recently released "Nuk jam ajo" (I'm not her), a duet with Jehona Sopi (Video on the right).
We have managed to contact Besa Kokëdhima and ask her about a studio version of her '09 FiK song "Ajër", after two visitors asked us to do so. She replied that actually there does not exist a studio version of "Ajër" but that she finds it a good idea to produce one and will do so. A little achievement from our side (yay).

Aida Ndoci Dyrrah:

Aida, Albanian representative in 2007 and Ex-wife of Frederik Ndoci has also released a new solo song with video. The song is called "Ah, ah... Ti" and a has some certain orientalic touch. Enjoy the video on the left.

  

 

 

Olta Boka: 

And last but not least, as promised we finally found and upload a Studio Version of "Tak Tak ja bën tek porta" by Olta and his dad exclusevily for you here.

ENJOY! :D

Frederik Ndoci: New child and wife.

Frederik Ndoci (ESC '07) has proudly announced that the birth of his little daughter Marilu has taken place. Marilu is born on 13.th September 2010. It was nevertheless not Aida Ndoci who gave birth to the Newborn, but a woman called Alisa, who seems to be his new wife/-to be.
See the photos below for more information:

Photo Gallery

Click on photos for full view

Before the birth; Frederik sings for this special event.

Alisa and Frederik before one day before. In the background: some souvenir from Helsinki 2007!

Healthy Marilu and happy Frederik.

We wish Frederik, his family and little Marilu the best for the future.

More infos: Promotion yes, money no.

In an Interview to Shekulli online, Edmond Zhulali, the Head Producer of the Festivali i Këngës, announced that there will be new promotions for the Festivali i këngës itself and the winner.

He also stated that only 5 artists will stuck in each semi leaving a 18-contestants-final on 25th of December.

There will be two different lots of juries voting in the final. One is the original FiK jury, while the other consist of members from Radio Stations and Television operators.
Giving every song and performance its own Identity on stage is one of the main aims of the producers this year, therefore more visual backgrounds and dancers can be used by the artists to give the own song one very special touch.

Edmond finally said something the Albavision-team thought since long: "After the Festival the songs, the singers and the composers slowly get forgotten again by the mass" and therefore for the first time a CD will be published with all the FiK-2010-Songs on it in Studioversions.
Additionally, songs of the festival will be aired on Radios and played by Channels belonging to the RTSH.
Great!
After the Albanian National Final for 2011 two documentations will be broadcasted, the first one is a flashback on the festival with facts and figures about the songs stars and staff, the second one a promotion for the Albanian representative for ESC in Germany in Albanian and English language.

But this year the orchestra will once again not be fully live, as it would be too expensive for the RTSH organizing a foreign service with great expense and specialized people.Nevertheless, at least the singers sing live and a part of the orchestra playing is not pre-recorded.


Stay tuned for further information...

All details about the FiK 2010!

The preparations for this years Festivali i kenges, the National Final for the ESC 2011 have started. Many more details have now been published by Radio Television Shqiptar.
This year the Festivali i kenges system is more like the ones before 2008, which means there will be only 3 nights this year. Two semifinals with 14 artists each and a final with songs the jury chose from the semifinals.
The voting procedure will be similar to last year: All juries get a set of 1 to 8, 10 & 12 point (unlike 1-20 last year) and vote for the best 10 songs in each semi/final.
All in all we will have 28 contestants fighting for the ticket to Germany.

Bojken Lako

The new director of the Festivali i kenges is Bojken Lako, who has been participant himself last year, Bashkim Zahajn will be the stage director and Alfred Kaçinari the musical director.

As we are the first English site to serve you with these details, stay tuned with us for more news around the Festivali i kenges.

Albanian national final on December 25th!

The 49th edition of Festivali i Këngës will this year be held over three nights, consisting of two semifinals with 14 songs in each one. That means, that neither the duet night or the night of the young artist initially is part of the format this year!

Unlike the last 3 editions, when the final was on a Sunday, this year the final will be held on a Saturday. The final will as usual take place in the Palace of Congresses. Albavision.tk will of course give you all the further details as they are released!

Eurovision stars to take part in Kënga Magjike

The list of the 56 participants that will take part in Kënga Magjike 2010 was released today, and it contains many well known names for Eurovision fans. As previously reported on Albavision.tk, Juliana Pasha will take part in the competition again, and she will do that together with Luiz Ejlli. They also participated together in Festivali i Këngës in 2008, where they came second with the song "Një jetë". Juliana and Luiz represented Albania in ESC respectively in 2010 and 2006.

Another known Eurovision star who is taking part, is Olta Boka. The Albanian representative from 2008 also took part in the last edition of Kënga Magjike, where she finished ninth with the song "Jepu me zemër". We will also see Adrian Gaxha, who also took part in ESC in 2008, for FYR Macedonia.

Among the other former Festivali i Këngës participants, we find Pirro Çako, Linda Halimi, Era Rusi, Burn, Teuta Kurti, Greta Koçi, Vesa Luma and Voltan Prodani. You can take a look at the whole list HERE!

Kënga Magjike will be held at the dates 17th, 18th and 19th November

The 49th edition of the Festivali i kenges starts!

The first phase -Song selection - of the Festivali i kenges #49 has officially started.The RTSH officially invites artists to send in Songs for the FiK on it's webpage now.

Songs will be accepted until the 20th of October 2010, 02:00 pm by Radio TIRANA.

If you (singer/composer) want to participate you need to fulfill following criteria:

As the Festivali i kenges is a project that promotes and encourages the Devellopment of Albanian songs, it is required that all involved with the song (+ singer) have to be Albanian.

1. The song must be recorded on CD and be sent in in a completed form.
2. Send in two copies of the songtext
3. Send in a Photo of the singer, if you participate for the first time

Rules for a participation at the Festivali i kenges.

1. The competing songs for the FiK will be selected by a jury committee. After sending in a song, participants in the Songselectionphase must fill out a form in which composer, songwriter and other involved (including singers) have to be listed nominally.
2. The song is not allowed to be released before the FiK.
3. The song must be sung in Albanian.
4. You can only participate with one song (counts for artists and composers)
5. Songwriter are allowed to write lyrics for 2 songs max.

The RTSH wishes good luck and success with the creativity to all participants.

Albania to take part in ESC 2011

According to Esctoday.com, the Albanian broadcaster RTSH confirmed a participation in the ESC 2011 to the site. Additionally, they told them that the Festivali i kenges stays the National Final (Yay) and therefore denies rumours which had been spread around since an interview with staff of the Festivali i kenges right after Juliana Pasha's win in December 2009.

New song + video of Dorina Garuci!

D. Garuci

In a previous article we published the "Albavision Interview" with Dorina Garuci, competitor in the Albanian NF 2009 and 2010, in which she also told us about about her future musical plans. See the full interview here.

Dorina said that she was producing a videoclip to her new song "Me ty prane zemres" in the Interview, now this video has just been released and of course there is no way we wouldn't post that immediately ;)

See the Video to With you in my heart below