ALBANIA · GERMANY

Pioneering a New Language in Albanian Jazz

Where contemporary jazz meets Albanian folklore.

ENTER THE SOUNDPalimpsest · 2022 · Kaba Music Records

01 / THE ARTIST

VOICE · COMPOSITION · IMPROVISATION

Three decades in music

From The Art of Time to Palimpsest, Eda Zari’s recordings include collaborations with Mark Joggerst, Dominic Miller and Ibrahim Maalouf.

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02 / Music

SWIPE · SELECT · LISTEN

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Palimpsest

Lasgush Poradeci · Heinrich Heine

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LATEST

News and updates

From the stage, new projects and the artist’s daily life.

27 Sept 2026

03 / WATCH

Videos

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OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEOKujtimi · ElectroswingOfficial music video · 2025

04 / READ / ESSAYS

Music, culture and memory

Essays and reflections on sound, place and the stories that shape us.

The Flutes of Gramsh in Hollywood’s “New Ulysses”: A Meditation on the Pastoral Voice, Cinema and Our Aural Memory. By Eda Zari

2026 · 8 MIN READ

Gramsh Flutes in Hollywood

From the dark of Tirana’s old Kinema Republika and the memory of Bekim Fehmiu to Christopher Nolan’s monumental 70mm cinema: a meditation on how an ancient pastoral timbre can cross from Gramsh into a global screen and awaken cultural memory.

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From “ICE Out!” to “Albania Is Not for Sale”: When Global Music Collides with Our Reality. By Eda Zari

2026 · 7 MIN READ

Global Music & Albanian Reality

A reflection on Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico, migration, folklore and Albania’s own civic protests — on how music can carry resistance, memory and dignity across borders.

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