Isabelle Courroy has booked a truly dazzling line-up for the second part of her Confluences trilogy. Le chant des sources (The Song of the Springs) gives a central place to the voice, here magnificently incarnated by Fran?oise Atlan, Katerina Papadopoulou, Mariyana Pavlova, Maria Simoglu and Gulay Hacer Toruk. The ten melodies on this album, which can be listened to as a single song, are drawn from traditional repertoires from Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. Whether instrumental or vocal, are all gems which Isabelle Courroy has polished to perfection, and for which she has composed a new setting. These arrangements give an important place to string instruments and double bass. Percussion instruments join them to offer a sound palette of great richness. At the heart of this framework, Isabelle Courroy?s kaval flutes breathe their expressive power and organic character through all the pieces.
Fran?oise Atlan, vocals - Mireille Collignon, viola da gamba - Isabelle Courroy, kaval flutes - Shadi Fathi, Kurdish dafs - The
choeur Estampes under the direction of Philippe Franceschi - Patrice Gabet, violins - Spyridon Hallaris, kanoun - Christiane Ildevert, double bass - Ourania Lambropoulou, santour - Marie Domitille Murez, harp - Katerina Papadopoulou, singing - Mariyana Pavlova, vocals - Aliocha Regnard, nickelharpa - Lionel Romieu, tamboura, Oud, Mandole - Jerome Salomon, bendir, derbouka, tombak, tapan - Maria Simoglu, vocals - Sokratis Sinopoulos, pontic lyre - Kyriakos Tapakis, laouto, oud - Hacer Gulay Toruk, vocals -
Artistic direction, arrangements : Isabelle Courroy
Tracks:
1. O SKAROS - Seul dans le p?turage, la nuit
2. EN DESCENDANT DE LA MER NOIRE
3. TUDORU
4. PRITURI SA PLANINATA
5. HAMEMILON. Pontos
6. BAVNA MELODIYA
7. M'EXEIS BERDEMENO M'EXEIS (Asie Mineure)
8. ALTIN TASTA G?L KURUTTUM
9. KRIVO SADOVSKO HORO
10. SARERI
