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DTITLE=Various / L'Albanie Mysterieuse - Mysterious Albania
DYEAR=1995
DGENRE=World music
TTITLE0=Rogoshina Polyphonic vocal group and local band / Song for the Hero "C
TTITLE0=elo Mezani"
TTITLE1=the flautists Gramshi / "Pastoral Symphony" for chalumeau and shepherd
TTITLE1='s flutes
TTITLE2=Vlora Polyphonic Group / "Te Kesh Mall"
TTITLE3=Hamide Laska (Koa district) / Lullaby
TTITLE4=a group of girls and a clarinet band (southern Albania) / Once again i
TTITLE4=n 1960
TTITLE5=Artistic group of the Albanian army; soloist Etherm Qerimi / Caba fo
TTITLE5=r the violin
TTITLE6=Musicians from Berati / Lament
TTITLE7=the Mastora family band / Pastoral melody
TTITLE8=Hekuran Pere (South-east Albania) / Bagpipe tune from Pogradec
TTITLE9=Group of cifteli players / Medley
TTITLE10=Instrumentalists from Puka / Rhapsodic Suite
TTITLE11=Himara vocal group (Adriatic region) / Fishermen's work song
TTITLE12=Mirdita Instrumental and Vocal Group / Medley from Mirdita
TTITLE13=Vlora vocal group / "Ostinato" singing
TTITLE14=Group of cifteli players from north-west Albania / Popular tune from L
TTITLE14=ezha
TTITLE15=Group of flautists from Vlora / Concert of Shepherd's flutes
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EXTT15=What is that country hiding in its retreat at the western confines o
EXTT15=f the Balkan peninsula?  And how do the two and a half million Albania
EXTT15=ns live there?  To answer these questions quite superficially and brie
EXTT15=fly, I shall call upon the reader's ingenuity by enumerating, instead
EXTT15=, what I have not seen there.  The rest may be left to the imagination
EXTT15=.\n\nIn Albania there are no private cars, no filling stations at th
EXTT15=e roadsides, no shopping centres, no hippies, no pop music or rock, no
EXTT15=i juke-boxes, no discos, no religion or churches or mosques, no intern
EXTT15=ational aurlines, no private tourism.  "But they must be living in th
EXTT15=e Middle Ages!" you exclaim.  And I agree, where our subject is concer
EXTT15=ned, for what we are after is folk music, and in that field I can assu
EXTT15=re you that the Albnians are richer than we are!\n\nAfter twenty-fiv
EXTT15=e years of patient waiting, I felt its impact, on Albanian soil, wit
EXTT15=h the music of the Shqipetar people: for me it was a miraculous revela
EXTT15=tion.  It still had its orignal freshness and was in an incredible sta
EXTT15=te of conservation!  A music that still has its distant Asian sap an
EXTT15=d an archaic robustness that thrills the listener with its wild beauty
EXTT15=.  It carries the imagination way back towards those intrepid Illyrian
EXTT15=s of antiquity, from whom the Albanians have inherited a potent musica
EXTT15=lity.  In the exceptional confines of its tenaciously maintained geo-t
EXTT15=opograhical and political retreat - with its villages perched like eag
EXTT15=les' nests on the almost inaccessible sides of the Dinaric mountain
EXTT15=s - Albania still to this day has certain traditions that are centurie
EXTT15=s or even thousands of years old.  The music has its rules, with modes
EXTT15=, complex rhythms, and scales (mostly untempered) whose intervals (e.g
EXTT15=. those of the Istrian scale) cannot even be indicated with our wester
EXTT15=n systems.  On these scales dating back to antiquity, the vehement son
EXTT15=gs of the men (fishermen, mountain dwellers) are built, with unsophist
EXTT15=icated and unbelievable polyphony.  The typical instruments accompan
EXTT15=y their many dances with very specific embellishments and glissandos
EXTT15=.  Music that is unlike any other anywhere on our planet.\n\nMarcel CE
EXTT15=LLIER, translated by Mary PARDOE
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