Arrels (Roots) represents a new approach to traditional Valencian music, interpreting it through the prism of the early music repertoire. After three decades working to recover our musical heritage, Capella de Ministrers felt it was time to undertake a re-evaluation of music from the oral tradition by seeking out the links between this tradition and the oldest known compositional forms (those found in threshing songs and lullabies, in instrumental pieces with irregular beats, and in the chants of the auroros ('dawn singers') as well as the more famous boleros, fandangos and peteneras, whose commonalities of form and harmonic structure with passacaglias and ostinatos suggest that they too originated in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Arrels presents songs and instrumental pieces that trace and reaffirm the oral traditions of a rich and diverse musical world, reuniting the early music of it's manuscripts or printings with the oral traditions of it's people. Beyond "flamenco" in Spanish musical tradition.

Tracklist:

Xiqueta Meua. Canço De Bressol
Fandanguet
Sandinga De Xixona. Fandango De Les Comarques Del Sud
Boleros De Guadassuar I L'alcúdia
Tocs De Morella. Gegants, Traspasset I Albades
La Llarga. Cant D'auroros
Peteneres De La Vilavella
Riberenca. Cant D'estil
Mareta. Canço De Bressol
La Perdiueta. Jotes
Fandanguet I Nans De Xàtiva
Cants De Batre: La Tendera De Muro, Cavallers Mireu Si Es Pena I Catalina Li Diuen
Xàquera D'alcàsser
Goigs A Nostra Senyora De L'antiga
L'u. Cant D'estil

UPC: 8216116218440
Label: Capella De Ministrer
Release Date: 7.13.18
Format: CD

Magraner - Arrels (CD)