Elina Duna promotes new album in abandoned Pyramid building

TIRANA, April 10 – Switzerland-based Albanian jazz singer Elina Duni performed in two special concerts inside the Pyramid building, a former mausoleum of late dictator Enver Hoxha in downtown Tirana, which had been scheduled to be demolished to pave the way to the construction of a new parliament building.
Elina Duni performed on April 9 and 10 songs from her latest album called Muza e Zeze (Black Muse), her first album as a singer songwriter.
“They are all my songs and lyrics. I wanted to have a solo project because I had written them through the years and I wanted to actualize them. I believe that it is going to be a very fun project,” Duni tells Kosovo 2.0 website.
“It contains some jazz music but it is more than that. The people I collaborate with such as Armend Xhaferi and Gent Rrushi, I’ve known them for a while and I wanted to do something together. Enes Bajramliqi joined the project later as the drummer, and Ermal Rodi on sax and clarinet. We spent ten days in Prishtina recording. The project is based on live playing of the instruments,” she said
The concert also revived the pyramid building which since plans to demolish it were announced a couple of years ago has almost been abandoned.
“The Pyramid”, former mausoleum of Stalinist ex-dictator Enver Hoxha, was built in 1988 to commemorate Hoxha’s 80th birthday, three years after his death.
Born in Tirana, Albania, in 1981, in an artist family, Elina Duni made her first steps on stage as a singer at the age of five and sang for the National Radio and Television. In 1991, after the fall of the communist regime, she arrived in Switzerland and settled in Geneva together with her mother where she started the classical piano and discovers jazz. Some musical, film and theater projects preceded before she studied singing and composition at the Hochschule der K