FOLLORUM ENSAMBLE-Sabba-(Double Cd-Self Released-Italy-2000)

The FOLLORUM ENSEMBLE is a group of musicians working in the field of ancient music. During its shows it offers music from Middle Ages and Renaissance: songs and dances performed with faithful copies of instruments typical of those epochs. The purpose of the Ensemble is to communicate not only the suggestive beauty of these melodies, but also, and above all, the spirit and the strong capability of aggregation that the music is gifted with.Carmina Burana, Troubadours and Trouvères songs, salterellos, estampies, cantigas, Renaissance dances: that is the musical line characterizing Follorum Ensemble’s research. Not an easy enterprise considering the aim of this study. The reappropriation of a cultural ambit that has been too many times banished to museums.

This idea has led the group to a lively and spontaneous interpretation – though always faithful to the spirit of the time – of the musical document and it’s in this sense that streets seem like the right stalls to where ancient music returns to be free popular expression and re-establish that archaic contact (that lost communion) with the people. Moreover, the vast musical repertoire, as well as the flexibility characterizing the Ensemble, enable the group to perform into theatres or concert halls, without proving contradictory, but keeping its purposes unaltered.(from their FB Page)

I already posted one cd by them,here that post.This is their facebook page  and here their official webpage. 

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FOLLORUM ENSEMBLE-musiche dall`altro medioevo (cd-r -diy-1997-Italy-)

Follorum Ensemble is a band from Puglia (Southern Italy),they were born in Foggia but later expanded their line up collaborating  with other musicians from that area.They are still active nowdays but the line up changed quite a few times since  they started back in the 90s,This cd is old and  it`s not available any longer.
When they started they were using the little chapel in the Ex Cim Occupato  in Foggia as practise room(Ex Cim was a big squatted hospital  with a little chapel-church in it)
They often played benefit gigs in this squat and during the summer they were often taking part to festivals and street parties .
Their music is a classic example of medieval music played with  ancient instruments.And they are definitely masters of those instruments.
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