Updated 20 March:
Slovenia 1999
Updated 20 March:
Darja Svajger (right) will represent Slovenia in Jerusalem after winning the Slovenian contest (the EMA) with her atmospheric ballad "Se Tisoc Let". Darja represented Slovenia in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest with "Prisluhni mi", and came 7th.
Listen
to a full length clip of the song here in Real Audio.
This is an improved clip taken from the video recording I have.
Also listen to the second-placed song Zakaj sung by Tinkara Kovac.
There is a Slovenian Radio 2 preview programme (in the Real Audio archives of Slovene Radio - the programme is 'Leva Scena' on 23rd Feb), with all the songs played and there is the Real Video recording of the entire EMA, or the winning clip now on the Slovenian Radio/TV web site.
As
ever, Mojca Mavec was the charming presenter, and Marc
Roberts (IRE'97) was the interval act.
(pictured together, left)
An excellent show with some great songs in it. I was particularly impressed by the songs from Sound Attack and from Tinkara Kovac.
There were some other interesting sounds - the one from Viktory sounding like an old Swedish entry, and Babilon was pretty good too.
Thoroughly recommended.
Marc Roberts gave us two songs, Mysterious Woman and Goodbye, and for good measure was a juror also. Mojca recommended he took a look at the Irish pubs in Ljubljana - "The wild side of my country".
We had some rather lengthy jury voting in the studio which was won by Zakaj sung by Tinkara Kovac, but the rather heavily weighted telephone voting was rather stronger for Darja Svajger, and she won.
It's fairly typical Darja - should do OK, but I can't help thinking Tinkara's unusual song with it alternating flute-playing and strong voice would have been more interesting in Israel.
Judge
for yourself with the Real Audio clips listed above.
Tinkara Kovac in quieter mood playing her flute >
If you tried to find the Real Video feed of the contest and failed, well so did I (but it was there!), but there was a Real Audio feed of Slovene Radio 1 which had it, and on 918 KHz Medium Wave I also got reasonable reception here in England.
Here is the list of the 17 songs for the Slovenian National Final held on February 26 in Slovene TV studios in Ljubljana.
Slovenian TV now has it's web site at:
Some familiar faces here. Viktory and Sound Attack were in last year's final (1998), and I think we all know of Darja Svajger who sang for Slovenia, coming 7th, in the 1995 final in Dublin, but has appeared in several Slovene finals, including 1997 and 1998.
After some thought,
I have replaced the Slovenian characters with standard ones.
OK, it isn't really
right, but it's easier to work with and print!
|
Song Title |
Performer(s), Composers, Etc |
Points |
Place |
|
|
1. |
CAS JE, DA NAJDEM TE |
MITJA |
22 |
5 |
|
2. |
DLAN OKROG SRCA |
TATJANA MIHELJ |
1 |
17 |
|
3. |
SANJE |
MONIKA TRATNIK |
3 |
16 |
|
4. |
TISOC KILOMETROV |
KALIFORNIJA |
6 |
15 |
|
5. |
DRUGACEN DAN |
KANTOR |
7 |
13 |
|
6. |
LE POVEJTE JI |
VIKTORY |
18 |
9 |
|
7. |
IGRA JE KONCANA |
SANJA, DAMJANA and IRENA |
22 |
5 |
|
8. |
TI SI SE BAL |
LARA BARUCA |
22 |
5 |
|
9. |
KJE SI ZDAJ |
SOUND ATTACK |
10 |
11 |
|
10. |
SE TISOC LET *Winner* |
DARJA SVAJGER |
64 |
1 |
|
11. |
NE IZDAJTE ME |
AVIA BAND |
24 |
4 |
|
12. |
NEKAJ LEPEGA JE V MENI |
NUSA
DERENDA |
10 |
11 |
|
13. |
SI'Z D BES |
NUDE |
7 |
13 |
|
14. |
KOT OCEAN |
BABILON |
11 |
10 |
|
15. |
ZAKAJ |
TINKARA KOVAC |
62 |
2 |
|
16. |
LJUBEZEN JE LE ENA |
GIANNI RIJAVEC and
VLADIMIR CADEZ |
21 |
8 |
|
17. |
MOJA DEZELA |
JAN PLESTENJAK |
38 |
3 |