Esen Vo Mene
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Esen Vo Mene is a single by the Macedonian
Macedonians (ethnic group)
The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 singer and song-writer Elena Risteska
Elena Risteska
Elena Risteska is a Macedonian singer and song-writer. She represented Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, held in Athens with the song "Ninanajna" and finished on the 12th place. That is the best result made by Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest ever...

 realized in 2006. It is the fourth single from her second studio album "192
192 (album)
- Singles and music videos :* "Ni Na Nebo, Ni Na Zemja" is the first single from the album. With this single she debuted on the Balkan Stage on Sunčane Skale 2005. The video for the single was shot by "Tomato Production" in their studios in Skopje....

". Later in 2008 it was included in her Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

 version of "192" called "Milioner
Milioner (album)
Milioner is third studio album by Macedonian pop musician, Elena Risteska. The album was released in Serbia by City Records in q2, 2008. The albums contains the same songs from the album 192, just sang in Serbian.-Track listings:#"92"...

", but together with Ninanajna
Ninanajna
"Ninanajna" was the Macedonian entry in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, performed in Macedonian and English by Elena Risteska, composed and produced by Darko Dimitrov and with lyrics by Rade Vrčakovski. Versions were also recorded entirely in each of the two languages...

 it was not re-recorded in Serbian.

Background

After the Eurovision Song Contest 2006
Eurovision Song Contest 2006
The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on 18 May and 20 May 2006 . The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi . The Finnish band Lordi won the contest with the song "Hard Rock...

 Elena started to work on a new project. "Esen Vo Mene" was the pilot single that came outbjust two months before realizing the album "192". In 2008 it was included in the album "Milioner" that was actually the Serbian version of "192", but the song was not re-recorded in Serbian like the most of the songs and stayed as it was originally in Macedonian.

Production history

"Esen Vo Mene" is a pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...

. The author of the music is Elena's producer Darko Dimitrov
Darko Dimitrov
Darko Dimitrov ) is a Macedonian record producer, songwriter, arranger and record executive. Highly acclaimed for revitalising the Macedonian mainstream pop music scene, which also influenced the surrounding Balkan countries, he also received international recognition for working with many popular...

 and the lyrics were written by the Macedonian diva Kaliopi Bukle. For first time the song was presented on the 9th of October, 2006 in the Macedonian TV show "Vrteleška". Later on the 21 of October was realized with an official music video.

Music video

The music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for the song was shot in September/October, 2006. Director of the video is Bane Popović together with "Tomato Produkcija" It features a dark room in which Elena stays and performs during the whole video.

Release history

Country Date Language
Macedonia
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

October 22, 2006 Macedonian
Macedonian language
Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

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