Mediterranean music
From the Albanese isopoliphony to the Valencian cant d’estil, from the intrincate melodies of the Turkish Gypsies to the melismatic singing of the inland Spain, the Mediterranean music is not an homogeneous whole. But the Mediterranean sea connects our cultures, including mine, for millennia.
Moreover, migrations, forced in many of the occasions, took, for instance, the Sephardic Jewish from Spain to the Ottoman empire and to Morocco. War campaigns in the XIV century the made the Catalonian talked nowadays, under the name of Algueres Catalan, in a part of Italy. And centuries after, the fighting between Greece and Turkey from 1919 onwards produced hundreds of thousands of refugees, that would be the breeding ground for the developement of the modern rebetika.
Our connections and our differences produce a rich legacy of shapes of art. Find below a bunch of our dearest Mediterranean proposals for your program and other needs.
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VIGÜELA
The deep secret sound from the land of Don Quixote
Voices, skin and wood are their assets.
MONSIEUR DOUMANI
The best group for the latest Songlines Awards
RODOPI ENSEMBLE
From the birthland of Dionysus
JAKO EL MUZIKANTE
The roguish hustler from the café aman
Sephardic urban music between East and West. A final toast at the café aman. An empire about to break off.
GULAZA
Secret Yemenite women songs
SAZET E PERMETIT
Isopoliphony from the South of Albania
Masters of the style declared in 2008 as intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco.
CÜNEYT SEPETÇI & ORCHESTRA DOLAPDERE
The heritage of the Turkish Gypsies
CITRA TRÍO
The Valencian tradition of cant d’estil at its best
The superb voice of Valencia, Apa, brilliantly accompained. Granainas, boleros, peteneras, specifically Valencian styles likes l’u, l’u i dotze and riberenques.