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jason on 02/02/2012 at 07:00PM
Golden Festival 2012: Balkan Vocal Groups in the Atrium Room
The Golden Festival is a massive Balkan and East European music and dance bacchanal. On January 14th, WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise presented its fourth live broadcast from the event's main stage in Brooklyn's kitschy and fabulous Grand Prospect Hall. The Grand Ballroom was one of four stages, and the two-night event featured over sixty groups. This year, the Free Music Archive will host archives from all four stages.
We're starting the Golden Festival 2012 Collection with the Atrium Room.
Black Sea Hotel (pictured) is the Brooklyn-based vocal quartet of Corinna, Joy, Sarah and Willa. Their set included traditional songs learned under a plum tree in Bulgaria, but with their own distinct twists and arrangements, since many of the songs were originally sung by larger choirs.
Brazda (pictured) is a New York-based Balkan band that plays fresh arrangements of traditional repertoire from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, and beyond. Like many of the groups, they have provided information about each song in their set including translations. I was surprised to learn that "Yiati Foumaro Kokaini" has lyrics that translate to "That crazy rascal, cocaine smoker For my troubles, now I smoke cocaine."
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jason on 08/24/2010 at 12:50PM
The Tudor Consort: Revitalizing Early Choral Music
The Tudor Consort is a Wellington, New Zealand-based choral group that brings the music of the late Medieval and Renaissance eras to life. Active since 1986, the group has expanded their repertoire far beyond their initial focus of 16th-century Britain, to now encompass choral music from every century that followed.
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Along with commercial releases on "The World's Leading Classical Music Label" the likes of Naxos Records, The Tudor Consort make their recordings available on their website under a Creative Commons Attribution license. The Tudor Consort approached us after their free hosting expressed bandwidth concerns over hosting free music, and we were delighted to hear from them! One of the Tudor Consort's FMA offerings -- Renaissance influences - Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem / Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas -- is a sort of 'old-meets-new' in Italian choral music, contrasting Ildebrando Pizzetti's Messa di Requiem (1922) with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas (1590). They also share a 20th-anniversary live collection with performances from the Parroquial Church in Ordizia, Spain and the Madonna dei Monti in Rome, which is available at left. Be sure to check out The Tudor Consort's FMA profile for more, including works by JS Bach, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis and more key figures in the history of western choral music. |
