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My FAVORITE cassette is called "Kad saz bije u jacije" purchased at a St. Anthony's Croatian Picnic long ago. Bluer than the Croat kolos I grew up listening to, my ears were opened to the Bosnian style of saz playing and mournful melodies referred to as "Sevdalinka". It was on that cassette I first heard Himzo Polovina, favorite son of Mostar (close to my father's birthplace), as well as a beautiful tune from Emina Zecaj with Hasim Muharemovic on the saz. All appear on "Echoes" which presents a compilation of styles you won't hear elsewhere outside of BiH--the typically Herzegovinian (and usually Croat) ganga or the truly "Bosniak" Islamic devotional music known as "Ilahija". And Kadir Kurtagic's "Sarajevo's Beginning" serves as the ambassador of vanished Bosnian saz playing.
