Isabelle de Spoelberch - Appel a la Source (2 CD) (2022)

Isabelle de Spoelberch was born into a family where music plays an important role in everyday life. During her childhood she fell in love with the harp and started cultivating a deep fascination with Celtic traditions and medieval music. She took harp lessons with Arianna Savall and Robin Huw Bowen and studied instrument making at the Fachschule für Streich und Zupfinstrumentbau in Hallstatt, Austria.

On her debut double album, the Celtic harp is the common thread through a journey of discovery along different roads and cultures. New compositions and traditional music are alternated with long improvisations in which the harpist enters into a dialogue with the Armenian duduk, the Turkish saz or the Persian tombak. The music of 'Appel à la Source' pays tribute to what music from different corners of the world 'à la source' have in common. Isabelle de Spoelberch is inspired by Scandinavian mythology, shamanism, the four elements of nature, Eastern mysticism and the ancestral tradition of wandering singer-poets in Anatolia, Bengal and Senegal. All these influences are interwoven in a richly varied and mysterious album on which twelve guest musicians from seven different countries have contributed.

CD1
01 - Solo Harp Improvisation I (00:03:55)
02 - Utopie (00:05:08)
03 - Freudenfest des Lebens (00:03:30)
04 - Cig a chwrw (00:04:20)
05 - Spiegel in mir Leuchtet zu dir (00:02:25)
06 - Harp and Duduk Dialogue I (00:06:27)
07 - Sayyid Dance N° 10 (00:04:48)
08 - Solo Harp Improvisation II (00:03:00)
09 - La Complainte de la Blanche Biche (00:02:00)
10 - Le Souffle d Éole (00:03:24)

CD2
01 - Solo Harp Improvisation III (Parfum d eau) (00:04:27)
02 - Harp and Duduk Dialogue II (00:05:19)
03 - Prière pour l Eau (00:04:58)
04 - Dilki doya (00:06:07)
05 - Appel à la Source (00:02:40)
06 - Solo Harp Improvisation IV (00:03:56)
07 - Lève les yeux (00:04:05)
08 - Ohm (00:05:00)

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