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Birds on a Wire: Ramages

September 18, 2020 By guillaume

Birds on a Wire - Ramages (2020)

Sur la place où tout est tranquilleUne fille s'est mise à chanter On the square, where everything is quietA girl has started singing Jacques Brel Franco-American singer songwriter Rosemary Standley and Brazilian-born singer and cellist Dominique Pinto (aka Dom La Nena) released their enchanting self-titled début Birds on ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Featured, Folk, Traditional Tagged With: baroque, Birds on a Wire, cello, Dom la Nena, Rosemary Standley, songwriting

Jean-Louis Matinier & Marco Ambrosini: Inventio

July 22, 2015 By guillaume

Jean-Louis Matinier & Marco Ambrosini - Inventio (2014)

Initiated as early as 2008 by ECM Records founder and producer Manfred Eicher, the Jean-Louis Matinier and Marco Ambrosini duo introduces the rare encounter between the accordion, a modern free reed instrument that has been widely adopted by many folk and popular traditions around the world and the nyckelharpa, the keyed fiddle ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary Tagged With: accordion, baroque, Jean-Louis Matinier, Marco Ambrosini, nyckelharpa

Birds on a Wire

November 21, 2014 By guillaume

Birds on a Wire - Rosemary Standley & Dom la Nena (2014)

Birds on a Wire is an enchanting voice and cello duo formed by French-American singer Rosemary Standley (with multinational France-based alt-folk band Moriarty) and young Brazilian singer, songwriter and cellist Dominique Pinto aka Dom la Nena. Initiated by Rosemary Standley in 2011 as “Rosemary’s Songbook”, the project evolved ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Folk, Traditional Tagged With: baroque, Birds on a Wire, cello, Dom la Nena, Rosemary Standley, songwriting, voice

Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XX: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

April 22, 2014 By guillaume

Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XX - Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (1979)

The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (the Red Book of Montserrat) is a 14th century codex compiled by monks and still preserved in the library of the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat located outside Barcelona in North-Eastern Spain. The monastery was at the time an important pilgrimage site and cultural centre in Catalonia. ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Classical, Folk Tagged With: baroque, Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall, songwriting

Jon Balke, Amina Alaoui & Jon Hassell: Thulâthiyat

October 7, 2013 By guillaume

Jon Balke - Siwan (2009)

Nada mas bello O andalucesQue vuestas huertas frondosas,Jardines, bosques, riosY claras Fuentes […] Nothing is more beautiful, O Andalusians,Than your luxuriant orchards,Your gardens, woods and riversAnd springs of crystal […] Following a five minute instrumental introduction, the first few lines from “O Andalusin” sung by ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Jazz, Modern Classical Tagged With: Amina Alaoui, baroque, Jon Balke, Jon Hassell, songwriting, trumpet

Yann-Fañch Kemener & Aldo Ripoche: Ar veleien

September 26, 2013 By guillaume

Yann Fanch Kemener & Aldo Ripoche - An Dorn (2004)

Since his début in 1977, traditional Breton singer Yann-Fañch Kemener  has made a huge contribution to the popularity of gwerzioù (unaccompanied laments) and to the revival of the "kan ha diskan" style, the traditional call and response singing for dancers. Now one of the most recognizable voices on the Breton music scene, ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Contemporary, Modern Classical, Traditional Tagged With: Aldo Ripoche, baroque, cello, songwriting, viola da gamba, Yann-Fañch Kemener

Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento Della Ninfa

May 21, 2013 By guillaume

L'Arpeggiata

L'Arpeggiata Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer in the late Renaissance whose innovative compositions led to the birth of opera as a new style of music. In addition to early operas and church music, Monteverdi published nine books of Madrigals, or Renaissance love poems sung and arranged for several ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Classical, Folk, Jazz Tagged With: Ane Brun, baroque, Claudio Monteverdi, L'Arpeggiata, La Venexiana, songwriting

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