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Marlevar
Marlevar
Marlevar
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
 
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A language: the provencal nowadays a rarely spoken Neo-Latin language, spread across spain, france, Italy and the Mediterranean see. An inspiring and poetica ambience that lures us into the world of Coumboscuro where ancie...  more »

     
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All Artists: Marlevar
Title: Marlevar
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Forrest Hill Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 2/14/2006
Genres: Folk, International Music, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 0675741402729, 675741402729, 669910481868

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A language: the provencal nowadays a rarely spoken Neo-Latin language, spread across spain, france, Italy and the Mediterranean see. An inspiring and poetica ambience that lures us into the world of Coumboscuro where ancient legends pervade and Ligurians and Celts one cohabitated
 

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Italians who won't sing in Italian....worth a listen
Joel Cohen | Amesbury, MA USA | 09/05/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)

"A few years ago I passed through the mountain village of Comboscuro (Dark Valley), where, according to the album notes, this interesting album was recorded. It's in a beautiful corner of Europe. The daily language of the villages on the Italian side of the nearby French/Italian frontier is Occitan/Provençal, the magnificent but now moribund tongue that was employed in the Middle Ages by the troubadours of Catalonia, Languedoc, Provence, and Italy. It's touching to hear this language, wonderfully apt for poetry, used by young Italian musicians in a contemporary vein.



Besides Provençal, I heard the group employing French for just a bit, plus one track in Spanish and another, with a dark text, in some Italiante dialect, perhaps Neapolitan. Not a word of "standard" Italian, perhaps in reaction to the vapidity of most Italian commercial music.



This is contemporary pop music, with an intellectual bent, and the musicians appear to be classically trained. A string quartet can be heard on several tracks. The music is worth a listen, in my opinion. My favorite is the simple, folk influenced "Trail of Love" (Draio d'Amour). The name of the group means, I believe, "Rising Sea" in Provençal. The cover art appears to be a prehistoric stone carving from a neighboring valley on the French side of the border."