Black Rainbow - CD Presentatie

CD Black Rainbow is released! We invite you to celebrate with us the fantastic music and the atmosfere of the Balkans!

Following the acclaimed success of her debut CD, Dark Velvet: an autobiography in music, violinist Julija Hartig opens a new, deeply personal chapter with Black Rainbow. This album is the sound of belonging, a compelling musical journey exploring the complex question,“Where do we belong?”

Black Rainbow is a deeply personal musical journey in which violinist and vocalist Julija Hartig explores questions of belonging, identity, and heritage. The album connects her multicultural roots - Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and Austrian - to her Yugoslavian upbringing, weaving a narrative about migration and ancestral memory.

The title work, co-created with Akim Moiseenkov, fuses violin, voice, and live electronics to tell the story of three generations of female migration through sound, using folk elements, recorded voices of her ancestors, and electronic textures. This composition serves as both a meditation on the flow of culture and a sonic bridge between past and present.

Through the music of Leoš Janáček, Fazıl Say, and George Enescu, Hartig continues this exploration of roots and renewal. Janáček’s folkloric sonata evokes her sense of “home,” while Say’s modern improvisational language resonates with her Balkan background. Enescu’s Romanian-inspired sonata becomes a revelation of shared ancestry and emotional kinship. Together with pianist Reineke Broekhans, her long-time musical partner and soulmate, Hartig turns Black Rainbow into more than an album—it is a reflection on the “Ancestral Code,” showing that wherever we go, the sound of our heritage remains within us.

Black Rainbow is more than an album; it is a meditation on the Ancestral Code - an emotional cartography that proves that wherever we are born, the sound of our heritage travels with us.

The programme: The rearely played Sonata for Violin and Piano No3 of George Enescu - written exactly 100 years ago, the Sonata Op7 of Fazil Say and Black Rainbow - Story in Sound will enchant you and transport into the world thet describes my cultural DNA.

Julija Hartig - violin
Reineke Broekhans - piano
Akim Moiseenkov - live electronics

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: This concert will take place in de Uilenburgersjoel - Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91