I think the place you are in can strongly influence your inspiration for creating music. Let’s have a quick tour of some places that gave us some inspiration while we were working on the album…
The first one is of course the place we live : Istanbul…
…which is supposed to give inspiration. We had the idea of 1932‘s rhythm while crossing the Bosphorus…
We worked a lot on Twist en-dro war al leur-goat, Kreñv veld ar garantez and Mouezhioù in Bulgaria…
…in this wonderful house…
…with FOLK TV running all day long…
Listening to Folk TV all day made me fully understand 9/8 rhythms, and gave us the basis of our song An daou gamerad fidel.
The Traditional Music School of Shiroka Laka [BG]:
Of course, every day view / environment is extremely relevant…
Istanbul can be extremely stimulating !
But also somewhat disturbing…
Maybe the time has come to look for another stimulating place…
§ Yann
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