05/08/2024
This year DokuNights are conceived in three different stages using the spaces of Doku Plato, Prizren Castle (Sonar Stage) and Lumbardhi Bahçe to bring performances that interact and specifically fit the space, but also that come between different experimental works in sound and staging.
Seated on the semi-circular platform, facing the buildings that line the city streets below, the audience could see the stylized, projected lights extending the stage further through the lights.
While the audience was all seated, slowly came Agona Shporta, who debuted for the first time her new album "Open the Door", with 7 songs interpreted and worked with a mix of old Albanian songs and jazz music. Agona returns through performance, as the artist articulated, in her second home at DokuFest.
With the musical line-up of Tringa Sadiku on guitar, Ilir Bajri on piano, Enes Beu on drums and Enver Muhamedi on bass, Agona sang songs from the album as well as her latest project "E dehur jam/Duhet to ngutemi", a remake of the song inspired by Xhevdet Bajraj's poetry, emulating more intimate and heartfelt elements.
Traditional Albanian music is outlined in Shporta's album with interpretations that awaken an area of the soulful, giving all the light and focus to her voice and the poetry of the songs.
The atmosphere at Doku Plato showed that comfort and joy when the music that has raised generations, and songs that have sung to life in pain, sadness and love, come as stories from a past in which we want to live and know as a part the interior of what we are.
Other performances come as part of the DokuNights program curated by Nita Deda and Leart Rama, and we suggest you follow the DokuNights section on the Dokufest website so you don't miss a night.
By: Blerina Kanxha
Photo: Tughan Anit
