Merima Ključo & Jelena Milušić
Duo Lume – selected projects and artistic overview
Duo Lume unites the distinct artistic worlds of Merima Ključo and Jelena Milušić in a chamber setting shaped by voice and concert accordion. Rooted in traditional music yet open to transformation, the duo approaches inherited material as living sound - breathing, shifting, and reimagined through contemporary sensibility. Their performances move between intimacy and dramatic intensity, where precision and vulnerability coexist within a subtly theatrical space.
FEATURED PROJECTS:
SONGS BETWEEN WORLDS
Songs Between Worlds explores traditional music from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the wider Balkan region, and Spain, tracing shared emotional undercurrents and subtle historical resonances across these landscapes. These songs carry traces of Iberian origins while absorbing the tonalities, rhythms, and expressive nuances of their Balkan surroundings. Shared scales, melodic contours, and emotional registers reveal a layered musical language.
Through the dialogue of voice and concert accordion, inherited material is reimagined within a contemporary artistic framework, resulting in a refined chamber performance that emphasizes sonic nuance, structural clarity, and intercultural dialogue.
The development of Songs Between Worlds has been supported by Culture Moves Europe, a European mobility programme dedicated to international artistic collaboration.
LUME
In Lume, the duo presents love songs from diverse cultural backgrounds and languages, alongside a song cycle composed by Ključo and inspired by traditional music from the Balkans. Across different languages, the word “lume” carries multiple meanings - world, life, light, illusion, fire, spark, lover, humanity - each reflecting a shared human intensity at the heart of the program.
APPARITIONS
To the loved ones, the most loved ones and the least loved ones
Dramatic love songs, dark chansons and humoresques
Apparitions explores the many faces of love - its radiance, its fragility, and its darker undercurrents. Through voice and concert accordion alone, Ključo and Milušić shape a performance that moves between intensity and irony, intimacy and theatrical tension. The program unfolds as a sequence of stories drawn from chanson, cabaret, and traditional repertoires, where passion and longing meet wit and subtle humor. Between light and shadow, memory and illusion, the music reveals love not as sentiment, but as a force that unsettles, transforms, and exposes.