Long Lute Trip

Raag Live 210407

Inspired from Romanian cultural heritage, be it film, dance or musical instruments, Folclor Abstract is a glance back to the roots in search of a meaningful future.

The first track is inspired from the soundtrack composed by Cornelia Tăutu for the Romanian historical adventure film "Buzduganul cu trei peceți" (1977). The film presents a politicized version of the events that led in 1600 to the unification of the three Romanian countries, in the aftermath of a victorious battle against the Ottoman invasion (Călugăreni, 1595). Dance your way through as the story unfolds.

Dans cu balans is the result of a personal fascination for the cimbalom, an instrument of high versatility, frequently used in the Romanian fiddle music. In contrast to orchestral performances, which adhere to the composer's notes to reproduce a work faithfully, fiddling is also open to improvisation and tends to produce rhythms that focus on dancing, with associated quick note changes.

Searching for inspiration within Romanian folklore, I found Ivan Braga who was on his own pursuit of cultural heritage, experimenting with a variety of traditional instruments and rhythms from different regions of the country. Doba lu' Braga is Ivan's modern take on Romanian drum patterns performed on a traditional Moldavian drum (dobă) with an uplifting twist and arrangement for the dancefloor experience.

Reverie is an expression of the creator's state of mind. Lost in thought, stolen by imagination, haunted by memories, liberated by dreams.
credits
released April 19, 2021

samples taken from: Cornelia Tăutu, Marin Constantin, Corul Național de Camera Madrigal, Ivan Braga

Produced by Ovidiu Stanciu
Mastered by Johanz Westerman at Ballyhoo Studio

Folclor Abstract

Dans Cu Balans

In a grey and heavy, dusty landscape, the air is filled with dense mental clouds. Unbeknown, from the depths of the watery moon, a spring sprouts, filling the grey desert with turquoise tears, cleansing, purifying, clearing the eyes of the haziness of the mind, until the landscape transforms intro a bright stellar sea. 

Jacopo Barusso - Piano, cosmic soundscape
Bianca Nicolescu - Voice, lyrics

⋆ Inspired by The Star Tarot card. 

Lyrics

Empty clouds
Over waves of silent sands
Empty nothings
Weight heavy on my sky

Queen of rain
Nothing dry in her veins
Pouring waters are glittering
Turquoise diamonds fill
A pond of dreams

Tick tock
Time still stops
Teal tears drop
In this dust

And I think
ah ah
And I think
ah ah
And I think
ah ah
I blink

And the smoke sky lights 
Shining scene
Sparking up flaming fires within
I swim
In a soft dream
Twinkling light stars
Fill the silent sky
With my eyes opening
I grow wings and fly into a fast
Ride to Mars.

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Moondust ⋆ with Jacopo Barusso

Rapsodia Română

Doina din Ţara Lăpuşului şi Danţu-n patru din Târgu Lăpuş

Ansamblul Folcloric Țara Vrancei, România

Doină

Amor Fati

MARIA CIOBANU LIE CIOCARLIE

F2C Mix for Radio Raheem as played on 19th oct 2018

FRONT DE CADEAUX MIX FOR RADIO RAHEEM (MILANO, IT)

Broadcast on WNYU 89.1FM in New York City on May 26th, 2020.
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