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Bledi Boraku (Bledar Boraku) is an Albanian musician and composer.
Bledi has started experimenting at a young age as an auto-didactic classical-guitarist. His desire to work on various music genres lead him to self-learn other instruments aside from the guitar; like the bass, drums, percussions and folk instruments.
His first release was an alternative album with his own project “ORa3”, which was recorded in Kosovo by the producer Dritëro Nikqi.
In the time spoken, Bledi Boraku, collaborated with other bands like: “Linda në botën e çudirave” (alternative/experimental), “Permit of Stay” (psychedelic/alternative) and “Fuck the bass” (punk/grunge); those, part of the underground scene in Tirana (AL).
Then he moved to Kosovo to be part of the project “Ambasadi”, formed by producer Dritëro Nikqi, which is still active these days. The project is focused on mixing folk, jazz & post rock.
After returning from Kosovo his focus was more on electronic music composition, primarily on audio programming and home-recording. During this period “Tajçido”, a krautrock/disco-punk band was formed. Their first release was a self-titled album on PMG recordings
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Born in Tirana, capital city of Albania, Mardit B. Lleshi is a gifted musician who has been composing modern classical music for several movies and his solo projects.
He is a multi-instrumentist who began studying music since he was 7 years old. He started learning cello during elementary school, continuing later at Jordan Misja Artistic Lyceum. In 2003 – 2007 he graduated from The Academy of Arts in Tirana, specialized in cello. Mardit B. Lleshi has been teaching cello lessons in a music school in Tirana since 2009.
Inspired by the music of composers such as James Horner, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman he began focusing in music for films and documentaries in 2009. He composed themes for several movies and documentaries in Albania such as ‘Antena’ (2009), ‘Jinx in a Jiffy’ (2010), ’Revansh’ (2011), ‘Not a Carwash’ (2012), ‘Daybreak’ (2016) directed by Gentian RexhepKoci, ‘Farwell’ directed by Ermela Teli, ‘Last Cigarette (2010), Father (2011) directed by Gledis Bica, ‘Më Në Fund Në Shtëpi’ (2014), (74 km) documentary (2015) directed by Kreshnik Saraci, ‘Atila’ directed by Benard Laze and ‘Road’ (2019) directed by Irdi Islami.
In 2017, he co-composed with the artist Bledi Boraku, for the dance theater performance in Mediterranea 18 - Young Artists Biennale, called ‘Flowers of Winter’, directed by Robert Nuha and performed by Rosella Pellicciotti and Robert Nuha. At the same year, he was the compositor and live performer of the ‘39 Steps’ play, a parody adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock, and directed in Metropoly Theater by Qendrim Rijani. He presented his compositions on cello in Experimental Theater SP in Tirana which was appreciated by the audience and it stated by a critic that “It was the first time in Albania to have such a special performance.