Oriental Winds of the Baroque

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Release Date: 29th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: PSC1349
Label: Simax
Length: 71 minutes

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Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Kouame Sereba, Francois Couperin: Le Vent - Sarabande

Work length6:03

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

trad. ballad from Lorestan: Dochtare Boyer Ahmadi

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Kouame Sereba, Nelson da Rabeca: Jegerlek - To Lembrado Nao! - No Forró

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Nystrøm, R-E: Chichūkai no tsuki

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Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Kouame Sereba, Tarquinio Merula, Diego Ortiz: Canzonetta spirituale Sopra alla nanna part I - Wodi - Naya - Recercada Segunda - Canzonetta part II

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Nystrøm, R-E: Maqam: The Oriental Dawn of the Baroque

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Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Kouame Sereba, Nils Økland, Jesús Fernández Baena: Gnawar'n - based on a ’gorrlaus slått’ from Setesdalen after Vidar Lande

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz, Kouame Sereba, Nils Økland, Jesús Fernández Baena: Jonabalo - Su la cetra amorosa - Ciaccona

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Franz Ignaz Heinz Maria von Biber: Die Verkündigung

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Nils Økland: Biberslått

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Kouame Sereba, Luys de Narváez, Claudio Monteverdi: Tantie Beiko Justine - Paseabase del Rey Moro - Excerpt from Quel Sguardo Sdegnosetto - Lisa

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Kouame Sereba, religious folk trad tune after Ragnar Vigdal, Swedish religous folk tune: Ziza - Kilden - Kom helge ande

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Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

Ennemond Gaultier, Claudio Monteverdi: Les Canaries - Amor, dicea.... Lamento della Ninfa

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Jesús Fernández Baena, Nils Økland, Kouame Sereba, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Elisabeth Holmertz
Oriental Winds of the Baroque

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Saxophonist par excellence Rolf-Erik Nystrom is at the helm of Oriental Winds of the Baroque, an ensemble which has chosen to explore Baroque music through its connections with the Orient, Africa, South-America and the Nordic regions. The album includes works by Monteverdi, Biber, Merula and Nystrom himself.

Eager to show the historically open Europe, in stark contrast with the current situation, Nystrom initiated Oriental Winds of the Baroque. The extensive traveling and studies made by Nystrom of the traditional music of Central Asia, Brazil and Africa are found in many of the tracks on this album and traces the possible non-European influence of the European baroque, classical and traditional music, and vice versa. Particularly the cultural implications of the al-Andalus kingdom has been a great inspiration. Through the 800 years of the Moorish and Arab rule in Europe in the future lands of Spain and Portugal, the most important sources of culture, knowledge, literature, civilization and art for the future Europe were introduced.

Biber's re-tuning the strings and using improvisation in his music, is closely connected to how the folk musicians all over Europe worked, especially in Norway. Furthermore, the tonality of the traditional religious songs in Norway, is sometimes similar to the way religious and other music is sung in the Middle East. Kouame Sereba's timeless vocals, dodo and calimba can together with the Italian theorbo and the Norwegian traditional Hardanger fiddle give the listener associations to the curious intercultural meetings that became the origins to the later stylized baroque and classical music, and then in turn our other Western musical styles. The calm and breath in the music of Couperin is found in the aesthetics of the breath and space in the individual expressions of Sereba, Okland and Nystrom.

Known through his musical adventures in world music, improv, classical and rock, Rolf-Erik Nystrom has invited an outstanding cast for this project: Nils Okland holds a special place on today's international music scene, combining traditional music with jazz and improv. Soprano Elisabeth Holmertz has distinguished herself as one of Scandinavia's boldest interpreters in both early and contemporary music. Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Kouame Sereba is native in anything musical, guided by his maxim 'the power of playfulness'. Theorbist Jesus Fernández Baena is a distinguished performer within the European community for early music performance.

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