Lalba - À principiu '2021

Tracks list

LAlba likes to say that the Corsican musical tradition is not frozen in time
but, quite the opposite, is in constant evolution and movement. The music of
LAlba, timeless and wide open to the world, takes on an ever-more Mediterranean
orientation in its new album À Principiu. Once again, LAlbas work sets it at
the heart of the Corsican musical landscape: while preserving the heritage of
polyphonic voices, the group is now absorbing new influences with a palette of
sounds borrowed from the worlds regional cultures such as North Africa, Italy,
Greece and Portugal.

Guiding LAlbas creative process is the wish to accompany their songs with
original arrangements carrying Mediterranean influences while remaining faithful
to ancestral cultural tradition. The desire to work in this direction began with
an awareness of the similar vocal identities of the peoples of the Mediterranean
basin, notably in terms of melisma and more broadly in terms of aesthetics.
Characterized by compositions that breathe a wholly positive energy, À
Principiu sets out to visit a wider range of time and place, from North Africa
to the Eastern Mediterranean, taking on accents that alternate between
traditional and contemporary. The voices harmonize with instruments such as
harmonium, guitar (acoustic or electric), violin, clarinets, flutes, mandolins,
bass and percussion, and the monodies and polyphonies sing a musical dialogue
inspired by the movement of peoples and their cultural exchanges.

À Principiu, the group s fifth album since turning professional in 2005,
features prestigious guests (the Senegalese-Moroccan drummer and percussionist
Mokthar Samba, the Zimbabwean singer and guitarist Louis Mhlanga, the Corsican
guitarist Fanou Torracinta) as well as very talented instrumentalists and
singers from the island who have joined the collective for the occasion. Some of
them, beguiled by this new approach, have become full-fledged members. À
PRINCIPIU, meaning in the beginning in Corsican, takes the group to the
beginning of a new artistic and human adventure.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Lalba - Guarisce (4:43)
1.02 - Lalba - Indiferenti (3:09)
1.03 - Lalba - Sò diventatu (4:21)
1.04 - Lalba - Di punta à l’abbissu (4:34)
1.05 - Lalba - Schjarì u to chjassu (1:26)
1.06 - Lalba - Ancu Sfarente (3:47)
1.07 - Lalba - Felici Suspesi (4:24)
1.08 - Lalba - U Tornaviaghju (3:13)
1.09 - Lalba - Paghjella (1:21)
1.10 - Lalba - A To Cullana (4:57)
1.11 - Lalba - Stranieru Da LInternu (7:01)
1.12 - Lalba - Indiferenti (Ghost) (3:08)

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