Oneira - Si La Mar '2010

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Oneira
Formed on the initiative of Iranian percussionist Bijan Chemirani, Oneira is a
dream (the meaning of "oneira"), a dream enriched by the experiences and
emotions of each of its members, the result of their respective backgrounds,
travels, traditions... The group is composed of hurdy-gurdy player Pierlo
Bertolino (Dupain, Ahamada Smis), guitarist Kevin Sedikki (Dino Saluzzi, Al Di
Meola), Harris Lambrakis (Savinata Yanatou), who plays the ney (end-blown
flute), and the two singers, Maria Simoglou (Stelios Petrakis, Sokratis
Malamas), who hails from Thessaloniki, and Maryam Chemirani (Trio Deilizioso
Compagnie Zelwer), Bijan's sister. A close-knit, yet very open group, Oneira
welcome here some delightful guests: guitarist Pierrick Hardy, lyra player
Stratis Psaradellis, the Sardinian singer Gavino Murcia, and that wizard with
words from Gascony, André Minvielle. Together these artists turn their
individual dreams into scintillating pieces of music.

Four of the pieces are re-creations of tradition: Apòpse ta mesànyhta,
which comes from Thrace, To fileman (aki so peran) from the Black Sea, Hassan
Chabi, belonging to the Alevi community of Turkey, and Sorcière, from
Finland. Leis Auras is a setting of a text by the Occitan poet Roland Pecoud; in
La Bourdique, to words by André Minvielle, Oneira present their own version
of Richard Hertel's setting. Ferdows Dami and Mou'pe mia magissa are composed to
verses (sung in Persian and Greek) by the eleventh-century Persian poet Omar
Khayyam, while Sanama is a lively setting of lines by the thirteenth-century
Persian poet and mystic Rumi (popularly known as Mevlana). Sometimes, as in
Sorcière or Râh, the language is very original, and sometimes the music
speaks for itself, as in the two interludes, Ambianz and Ambianz II, in which
electric or electro phantoms express their secrets.

Oneira
Si La Mar (2010)
"Our group travels in the land of improvisation based on its own compositions.
All of us have had that dream of a better life, in which all the good aspects of
our traditions, and our inventions, would be retained. So, with our instruments,
our passions, our friendship, what we have from our forebears, what is murmured
to us by cities, we play and create music from here and elsewhere, and share the
pleasure of a moment spent together on the shores of the Mediterranean, and a
little further afield." Pierre-Laurent Bertolino

Tracklist:
1.01 - Oneira - Se Dromous (4:57) 
1.02 - Oneira - Dodeka Chronon Koristi (4:03) 
1.03 - Oneira - Si La Mar (5:23) 
1.04 - Oneira - Hypnovielle (6:44) 
1.05 - Oneira - Interlude (1:04) 
1.06 - Oneira - Mynisé Mou (2:41) 
1.07 - Oneira - Yek Rouz (6:02) 
1.08 - Oneira - Zarbi (3:30) 
1.09 - Oneira - Homayoun (1:30) 
1.10 - Oneira - Râzeniâz (5:09) 
1.11 - Oneira - Anathema (2:36) 
1.12 - Oneira - Haft Zarbi (2:19) 
1.13 - Oneira - Bâhar (3:41) 
1.14 - Oneira - Nanourisma (3:43)

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