Glauk
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This is really interesting, Southern Albanians sing with Sards:
Voxtra Xhinxhile/Ballu Dillu live in Szczecin (Poland)
Xhinxhile / Ballu Dillu (from the album Voxtra 'The Encounter of Vocal Heritage' Muziekpublique 08) performed live in Szczecin. Trad. - Arr. Gjini Ensemble, Tenore de Monte Arvu. Brihans (marrësi), Gramoz (kthyesi), Domenico (voke), Giovanni, Tore (mesu voke), Raphael (contra), Ivo (bassu): vocals), Talike Gelle (vocals), Manuella Deledda (vocals) Voxtra brings together the most incredible vocal traditions. This amalgamation - not exactly a fusion, since each tradition is still perfectly recognisable - showcases Albanian iso-polyphony with its plangent quality, the cantu a tenore of the Sardinian countryside, Beko blues singing of southern Madagascar, Finnish yoik and rune singing and the Belgian récit chanté. Xhinxhile is an Albanian song about a magnificent mountain bird (a partridge), though in fact the bird is a metaphor for a beautiful girl. Xhinxhile is often sung at weddings. The dillu is a rhythm often found in the tenore style of singing in the mountains of Sardinia. The legend goes that this song would be sung (and danced to) to celebrate the successful capture of livestock (sheep or cattle) from a neighbouring village. Another hypothesis, however - the ballu dillu is also known as the ballu 'e s’arza (dance of the spider) - suggests that dillu is a shortened form of dilliriu (delirium) and the dance was performed in order to cure victims bitten by a poisonous spider. That would make the ballu dillu the Sardinian counterpart of the tarantella.
This is really interesting, Southern Albanians sing with Sards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeK3Zwqcg5Q
Voxtra Xhinxhile/Ballu Dillu live in Szczecin (Poland)
Xhinxhile / Ballu Dillu (from the album Voxtra 'The Encounter of Vocal Heritage' Muziekpublique 08) performed live in Szczecin. Trad. - Arr. Gjini Ensemble, Tenore de Monte Arvu. Brihans (marrësi), Gramoz (kthyesi), Domenico (voke), Giovanni, Tore (mesu voke), Raphael (contra), Ivo (bassu): vocals), Talike Gelle (vocals), Manuella Deledda (vocals) Voxtra brings together the most incredible vocal traditions. This amalgamation - not exactly a fusion, since each tradition is still perfectly recognisable - showcases Albanian iso-polyphony with its plangent quality, the cantu a tenore of the Sardinian countryside, Beko blues singing of southern Madagascar, Finnish yoik and rune singing and the Belgian récit chanté. Xhinxhile is an Albanian song about a magnificent mountain bird (a partridge), though in fact the bird is a metaphor for a beautiful girl. Xhinxhile is often sung at weddings. The dillu is a rhythm often found in the tenore style of singing in the mountains of Sardinia. The legend goes that this song would be sung (and danced to) to celebrate the successful capture of livestock (sheep or cattle) from a neighbouring village. Another hypothesis, however - the ballu dillu is also known as the ballu 'e s’arza (dance of the spider) - suggests that dillu is a shortened form of dilliriu (delirium) and the dance was performed in order to cure victims bitten by a poisonous spider. That would make the ballu dillu the Sardinian counterpart of the tarantella.
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