Sunday, August 9th 2026

Albanian society is suffering the next shock from a paradoxical development with a cultural background, a few days after the government collected four million dollars from the Reserve Fund, even in violation of the law, for the concert of Kaney West, a controversial character and without any artistic attributes, an expression also of the controversial choices of Rama for the promotion of Albania, interpolating and some calculations that make it at the same time funny in the eyes of the healthy Albanian opinion.
A film recently released in Hollywood, “Odyysea”, has as its soundtrack the interpretation of an Albanian master on the fiddle, in the lab genre, but this master turns out to be one of the workers of the cleaning company in Vlora.
We are talking about Vendim Kapajn, also with the title “Great Master”. The film that promises world sensation, as the specialist Vasil Tole writes, has exactly a segment of Albanian culture, but not to the credit of the government.
“Now that the premiere of the magnificent film ODISEJA has been completed, I have a thank you to give to the composer of the music of this film, Mr. LUDWIG GORANSON, who made me part of the group of music experts in this film.
Director Nolan’s approach and talent Mr. Goransson’s (winner of the OSKAR award for the music of the film OPENHAIMER), naturally turned their attention to the thousand-year-old musical traditions of our people, of Labëria and Toskëria, vocal and instrumental. Undoubtedly, their involvement in the music of the film (music performed by Gramsci’s fiddlers, the band Djemve di Delvina and fiddler Vendim Kapaj-Vlorë) is a worldwide confirmation of the extraordinary musical artistic values of our people.
Congratulations to the master Goransson and our ustalars of the tradition for this Homeric achievement!”, writes Tole, among the main meritors of the inclusion of Polyphony in UNESCO.
But the irony in this case, the most bitter possible, has to do with the government. While she gives millions to a rapper who offends all artistic taste like Kaney West, her artistic geniuses, whose fame reaches the heights of world cinema, let them become cleaning workers. /tesheshi.com/
Source: prizrenpost




