Vojko Pavčič / Vaja Orkestra - Rad imam tišino (2025)

VAJA ORKESTRA is an original project that slowly grew out of silence. Long hidden, unspoken, until "found coincidences" created the conditions for a process where every voice counts and every tone finds its place.

I Love Silence – the title, complemented by the image in the background – is an invitation to a calm dialogue: first with yourself, then with the second, third, fifth, eighth… And also with rhythm, melody and structure, where moments of balance meet and ripple between words and music. Silence here is not emptiness, but a space of fullness. It is a meeting point – the focal point of the composition.

The album contains 12 songs, which arranger Leon Firšt has dressed in various outfits. They echo traces of Latin, funk, jazz and more – nothing fashionable, but each song is a story in itself. All of them are a reflection of the times we live in. The lyrics are an inseparable part of the whole: sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, bitter or ironic.

They were created from conscious and other stimuli, from small joys and dreams, but also from the noise of distorted values, flooded omniscience, personal experiences and insights. They speak of the inevitability of higher powers, of accepting the inevitable, of searching for personal micro-truth, of fear of the imposed rule of zero and one. They are a test of one's own expressive exercises, a play with metaphors, contrasts and paradoxes.

The songs sway in places to the rhythms of different dances and reflect the intertwining of old and new, parts and whole, silence and noise, light and darkness, presence and absence, life and transience... hm, as if it smells of the end.
But perhaps it is a beginning. Without an end. We will see