Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2021

[Pablita 185]

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Amazing travel through different sounds, languages and countries: thanks to everyone to share a glimpse of your music and rybak to organize the competition.

[NikolaB 432]

One question. I just saw that Moldova and Romania have same jury member. Is that allowed or what? 

[NikolaB 432]

This is really good edition with so many great songs. 17 songs from this edition is now on my play list so I have big problems with making my final votes. However, good luck to all participants and let the best song win.

 

Greetings and hugs from sunny Balkans 

[rybak 3,218]

1 hour ago, NikolaB said:

One question. I just saw that Moldova and Romania have same jury member. Is that allowed or what? 

They have similar user names but it are different people.

[NikolaB 432]

53 minutes ago, rybak said:

They have similar user names but it are different people.

Ouch, I seen it now, thanks 

[rybak 3,218]

We are in 2021, we have songs mostly from 2020, previous monument of history is from 15th century but now we will throw back even way further to... 8th century BC!

 

Biskupin

 

 

Biskupin is an archaeological site, a life-size model and open air museum of a late Bronze Age fortified settlement in north-central Poland that also serves as an archaeological open-air museum. When first discovered it was thought to be early evidence of a West Slavic settlement, but archaeologists later confirmed it belonged to the Biskupin group of the Lusatian culture (the culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age <1300 BC – 500 BC> in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine) from the 8th century BC. The excavation and the reconstruction of the prehistoric settlement has played an instrumental part in Polish historical consciousness.

 

In 1933 Polish archaeologists discovered remains of a Bronze Age settlement in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland), the discovery became famous overnight. The site was excavated from 1934 onwards by the team from Poznań University. By the beginning of 1939, circa 2,500 m2 had been excavated. Biskupin soon became famous, attracting numerous distinguished guests, including officials of the Marshal Piłsudski government, members of the military, and high churchmen such as the primate of Poland. Settlement soon became part of Polish national consciousness, the symbol of achievements of the Slavonic forebears in prehistoric times. It was called the "Polish Pompeii" or "Polish Herculaneum". The existence of a prehistoric fortress, 70 km (43 mi) from the German border, was used to show that the prehistoric "Poles" had held their own against foreign invaders and plunderers as early as the late Bronze Age.

 

 

There are two settlement periods at Biskupin, which was located in the middle of a lake but is now situated on a peninsula, that follow each other without hiatus. Both settlements were laid out on a rectangular grid with eleven streets that are three metres wide. The older settlement from the late Bronze Age was established on a slightly wet island of over 2 hectares and consisted of circa. 100 oak and pine log-houses that were of similar layout, measuring circa 8 by 10 metres each. They consisted of two chambers and an open entrance-area. These houses were designed to accommodate 10–12 persons. An open hearth was located in the centre of the biggest room. There are no larger houses that could indicate social stratification. Because of the damp, boggy ground the streets were covered with wooden planks.

 

The settlement was surrounded by a tall wooden wall, or palisade, set on a rampart made up of both wood and earth. The rampart was constructed of oak trunks that form boxes filled with earth. The rampart is more than 450 metres (1,480 feet) long and accompanied by a wooden breakwater in the lake.

 

The oldest remains in Biskupin are the camps of reindeer hunters from 10,000 years ago (Upper Palaeolithic), as well as the Neolithic homes of the first farmers, located east of the Lusatian settlement, and the early Bronze Age kraal, surrounded by a system of ditches.

 

[Wanderer 1,726]

Finally voted. I finally have high hope for my 12  

[dezbee2008 819]

Voted. I'm actually quite pleased with the quality of this contest

[Laraja 1,494]

First time taking part on this kind of contest. I had thought that it would be easier to select the best songs... I was wrong haha

 

I have already selected 17 songs. I will cut off five more and make my top.

[heywoodu 15,145]

The good news: I have selected songs I definitely want to give points

 

 

The bad news: said selection consists of 11 songs