2022: La Collezione Torino

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Georgia - Circus Mircus - Lock Me In

promo

18 - 22 pts in semi 2

Circus Mircus Represented Georgia in Turin. They are a collective that works from "the complete neglect of musical frameworks". Their work, Lock Me In, was revealed on March 9. You can listen here at Youtube.

The digital single was released on March 25.

The promo cd single has the Eurovision and instrumental versions.

The Circus didn't wanna publish their intended video: "Due to the war in Ukraine, we feel that it is not the right time to release our happy and colorful music video."

Later they came up with a video-ish thing which was basically a picture with some moving bits. On April 1 the intended video was released after all.

Pic taken from Circus Mircus Facebook

Versions:
Lock me in - single/Eurovision version
- digital 25-3, on the official album
Lock me in - karaoke (= instrumental)
- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Links and sources:
Circus Mircus: ~~Website~~, FB, Insta

Albania - Ronela Hajati - Sekret

12 - 58 pts in semi 1
Ronela Hajati won the 60th edition of the Albanian Festivali i Këngës with her self penned song Sekret.

New version release image

The original version was released ahead of the FiK on December 2 through your usual digital sources.

A new version with parts in English is out on March 5. Here's the new video

1st digital release image

Versions:
Sekret - original
- digital single (2-12-21)
Sekret - Eurovision version
- digital single (5-3-22)

Sekret - karaoke

- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Karaoke has no real backing vocals but it does have the sampled vocal effects

Links and sources:
Ronela Hajati: FB*, Insta

*There are many Facebook pages concerning Ronela but it seems this one might be official.

Denmark - Reddi - The Show

13 - 55 pts in semi 1

Reddi, or REDDi as trends dictate, are the winners of Denmark's Melodi Grand Prix held on March 5. Their song The Show is the entry for the Torino Eurovision.

The Show is written by Chief 1, Ihan Haydar (band member), Julia Fabrin, Remee Jackman and Siggy Savery.

The Show was released as a digital single on February 10.

REDDI are Mathilde Savvery, Ihan Haydar, Agnes Roslund and Ida Bergkvist. Ihan Haydar was a backing vocalist in Baku in 2012 for Soluna Samay.

Songwriters Chief 1(Lars Pedersen) and Remee Jackman wrote the Danish 2012 Eurovision entry Should've Known Better and the 2015 entry The Way You Are.

Jackman also co-wrote Disappear for No Angels, the German 2008 entry.

Versions:
The Show - single/ESC version
- digital 10-2, on the official album
The Show - karaoke
- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Links and sources:
Reddi: Website, FB, Insta
You can still listen to the eight participating songs of the Danish MGP here at DR.

Latvia - Citi Zēni - Eat Your Salad

14 - 55 pts in semi 1
Pop Rap collective Citi Zēni (translates as "the other boys" won Latvia's Supernova selection and travelled to Turin with the song Eat Your Salad.

The song is written by band members Dagnis Roziņš,

Jānis Pētersons and

Roberts Memmēns. The digital single was released on January 13.

The other members are Reinis Višķeris, Krišjānis Ozols and Toms Kagainis.

I thought the original version would be too explicit for the EBU (Big Giant Head of Eurovision) but it made it to the official album. At the contest the naughty about eating unmentionables were muted but the audience filled it in obediently. The peach and sausage bits remained intact.

The new video is here.

At one point there were two digital singles, one marked explicit and one not. Both were exactly the same version and the explicit one is now removed so the boys have the original explicit version now listed as safe for all ages.

Digital release image

Versions:
Eat Your Salad
Eat Your Salad - karaoke

- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Even though one digital release was marked explicit and one not, there's only one version of the Salad song.

Links and sources:

Citi Zēni: FB

Supernova: Website, FB, Youtube has all performances

Austria - LUM!X ft. Pia Maria - Halo

15 - 42 pts in semi 1
ORF announced that DJ LUM!X ft. singer Pia Maria would travel to Turin with the song Halo. The song was released on March 11.

Halo is written by Anders Nilsen, Gabri Ponte (of Eifel 65, of Blue (da ba dee) fame), Luca Michlmayr (=LUM!X), Rasmus Flyck, Sophie Alexandra Tweed-Simmons.

Watch the video here.

They also sent this picture:

Foto by Roman Zach-Kiesling, provided by ORF

Versions:

Halo - single/ESC version

- digital 11-3, on the official 2CD

Halo - karaoke

- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Charts:

Austria top 75: 20, 28, 32, 28, 28, 28, 32, 36, 11, 6, 18, 23, 37, 43, 67, -, 73

At the end of the 2014 Conchita post at the Copenhagen Collection you can find a list with all charts results of Austrian entries in the home charts. (1965 to 2022)

Links and sources:

LUM!X: FB, Soundcloud

Pia Maria: FB

Slovenia - LPS - Disko

17 - 15 pts in semi 1

LPS (Last Pizza Slice) represented Slovenia in Turin with the song Disko.
The song is written by the band themselves: Filip Vidušin, Žiga Žvižej, Gašper Hlupič, Mark Semeja, Zala Velenšek.

The digital single was released on April 1.

Disko is performed in Slovenian, here's the EMA presentation video.

Versions:

Disko - single/ESC version

- digital 10-4, on the official album

Disko - karaoke

- on the official karaoke album (digital)

Picture from RTVSLO EMA Facebook

Links and sources:
LPS: new Website, FB, Insta, Linktree,
EMA Pages at RTVSLO, FB, Insta

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Ukraine - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania

This is the original Ukraine Page page (made when Alina Pash was still planned to go to Torino).

Kalush Orchestra's new page is here

Alina Pash - The withdrawn entry

Alina Pash is the winner of Vidbir 2022, the Ukrainian selection for the Turin Eurovision Song Contest. But she won't be going to Turin after all. She withdrew after allegations about illegally entering the Crimea etc. etc., you read the news.

The lyrics to Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors are written by Alina Ivanivna Pash (Аліна Іванівна Паш) herself, with music provided by Taraz Baseev.
The song is performed in a mix of Ukrainian and English.

Shadows... was released as a digital single on February 4.