Artist: Sollazzo Ensemble
Album: En seumeillant
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:02:32
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1,05 GB

Tracklist:

01. Sollazzo Ensemble – El Cant de la Sibilla (06:32)
02. Sollazzo Ensemble – Litanie mortorum (02:37)
03. Sollazzo Ensemble – Morte m’a sciolt’ amor (05:29)
04. Sollazzo Ensemble – Estampie I (03:08)
05. Sollazzo Ensemble – Magdalena degna da Laudare (03:56)
06. Sollazzo Ensemble – La bella stella (07:50)
07. Sollazzo Ensemble – Fumeux fume (06:35)
08. Sollazzo Ensemble – Estampie II (05:36)
09. Sollazzo Ensemble – Puisque je sui fumeux (06:28)
10. Sollazzo Ensemble – En seumeillant (07:19)
11. Sollazzo Ensemble – En ce gracieux tamps (02:09)
12. Sollazzo Ensemble – Or sus vous dormez trop (04:48)

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This recording by the Solazzo Ensemble isn’t just one to play “en seumeillant” – “while dreaming” – but also “en fumant” – while smoking – as it also contains the smoke-themed Fumeux fume and Puisque je sui fumeux – a whole collection of songs thought of as “medieval”, but which in fact come from a very wide variety of repertoires, from Italy and France, running from the 13th to the early 15th centuries. Two centuries of splendour, change – and sometimes extravagance, as the secret society of the Fumeurs (the originators of the smokier tracks on this album) were known for their eccentricities – as the smoky pieces here will surely prove. The understanding of death also provides space for musical and poetic interpretations, not exclusively religious ones: some portray death as a kind of endless dream. The “medieval” voices of the Swiss Solazzo Ensemble are accompanied here by a range of instruments from the period: hurdy-gurdies, vielles (no relation to the hurdy-gurdy: the vielle is a primitive medieval ancestor of the viola and violin) and harps.