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The creative impulse of the ensemble has been expressed in septennial cycles. The first septenary, dedicated to the investigation into Slovene folk instruments and sound- producing implements (from 1971 onwards; M. Omerzel's secondary-school years), was followed by a period of stage presentation of folk instruments and folk songs, and then by a septenary of investigating and developing vocal capacities. In the fourth septenary, the ensemble was deeply immersed in the investigation of the profound mysteries of sound and tradition and the formative capacities of the frequency Universe which, like a sensitive compass, directed our ancient ancestors onto the way of transcendental "reality" of hearing (and other senses) and awareness, which conditioned the form of folk instruments and the themes and the motifs of folk songs. Therefore, playing, singing, listening to and investigating folk tradition means to descend into the essence of sound, into the center of ourselves, into the heart essence of nature, into the psycho-physical abilities of voice, spirit and body, the search for archetypal structures of human timeless messages. By a more and more thorough investigation into the universal wisdom, which has mainly been forgotten by contemporary people of the atomic era even though it is as fundamentally important for us as it used to be for the people of the past, the ensemble enters the fifth period of its activity which requires the investigation into the transcendental essence of sound and tradition as well as the search for common origins of art- and folk music of the past centuries and the discovering of their oneness, timelessness, i.e. the timelessness of human sound structures and consciousness.
As an instrumental duo, or as a vocal-instrumental trio, the members have given concert presentations of folk instruments and folk songs from Slovene ethnic territory all over Slovenia and former Yugoslavia, in Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hungary, Belarus, the USA, Canada, Egypt and Greece.
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