Made up of musicians with a range of different backgrounds as wide as classical, jazz, pop and world, La Roza Enflorese presents songs from the Sephardic monodic repertoire as an encounter between early music, traditional music and today’s music, drawing on instrumental techniques inspired by different kinds of popular music as much as on improvisation.

Aiming to create a varied and contrasting sound-world, La Roza Enflorese brings together instruments from different places and periods (vieles, viols, lute, vihuela, recorders, crumhorns, and percussion from the Near and Middle East). While this instrumental richness contrasts with the Sephardic tradition, in which songs were performed by a female singer accompanied at most by a frame drum, it nonetheless exemplifies the influences which enriched this tradition after the 1492 diaspora. This approach seems especially appropriate at a time when cultural boundaries are being erased (at least through the arts) and when culture is becoming more and more a matter of encounters.

"A delightful recital of traditional Sephardic songs full of authentic colour. […] Edith Saint-Mard performs with a fairly typical folk singer's timbre She is skilled and at the same time restrained in her use of ornament. The ensemble creates an exceptional climate of nostalgia, mostly sad, but not without its moments of joy and humour." (Mary Berry)

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