The Salento‑based La Cantiga de la Serena is an ensemble of musicians and researchers that recovers and reworks the ancient music of the Mediterranean Basin, which has always represented a true cultural bridge between the East and the West. “La Mar” is a collection of songs belonging to different musical traditions, all having the sea (“la mar” in Ladino) as a leitmotiv.
This third album forms, along with the two previous ones, a “trilogy of the sea”, outlining an imaginary journey along which ancient Sephardic cantigas (expression of the Spanish Jews’ heritage) entwine with traditional melodies from Apulia, a Greek syrto merges with a song from Grecìa Salentina, the charming sounds of a Syrian melody cross the solemn forcefulness of a Neapolitan villanella, until they melt into the passionate rhythm of a Macedonian horo.
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