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Rosa is based on the book “The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg” and it pays a tribute to her feisty, passionate, sparkly, proud, untamable and profoundly sensitive spirit.

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ROSA

An empty sound seals my mouth

This cherub’s wings are too fragile to fly

Wearing your nerves, tears and trifles

Painful bruises you do deny.


I will break you, bite you, terrorize you

My golden one, my child, my ape

I will grieve alone in my blue places

Hide the traces that bear no shape.


Why in this life I must suffer these loud, piercing, slashing impressions, when inside me, eternally, a longing for peace and harmony is crying?


Let the cages of the imprisoned rattle

And freedom flow through our veins

Those who don’t break their deathly stillness

Do not notice their heavy chains.


Carry your fight, rise up high

Like a raging storm on the sea

Hear the call of this little bird

I was, I am and I shall be!


(free…free…forever free!…free…free….forever free!)


To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life “on the giant scales of fate” if it must be so… it means to be firm and clear and cheerful in spite of everything and anything, because howling is the business of the weak!


…The most revolutionary thing is to always proclaim loudly what is happening!

(El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!)

The masses are always what they must be according to the circumstances of the times and they are always on the verge of becoming something totally different from what they seem to be.


…I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.


In the dark of night I smile at life

I dissolve in its shimmering splendor

I am the world; the world is mine

To its beauty I gently surrender.

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from Hope's Beautiful Daughters, released August 11, 2014

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Katarina Juvančič and Dejan Lapanja first appeared on the Slovenian music scene in 2009, with their folk rock song Uej uej (Magdalenca), featured in Slovenian National Radio’s newcomers contest. Their music is often described as alt-folk, bridging modern trends and ancient folk influences and sensibilities. ... more

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