Damiano Mercuri - European Music And Ballads From Renaissance And Baroque Era

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2.	Mistris WinterJumpe 01:01	buy track
3.	Almain 01:09	buy track
4.	Greensleeves 02:02	buy track
5.	Galliard 01:54	buy track
6.	Ricercare II 02:25	buy track
7.	Preludio 00:56	buy track
8.	Sarabanda 01:41	buy track
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10.	Danza - 1 00:51	buy track
11.	Danza - 2 00:54	buy track
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16.	A - Mudarra Fantasia 01:54	buy track
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18.	L - de Narvaez Cancion de l'Emperedor 03:37	buy track
19.	G - Sanz Espanoleta 01:32	buy track
20.	G - Sanz Galliardo y Villano 01:01	buy track
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The straightforward and unimaginative title explicitly heralds the album's contents. _European Music and Ballads From Renaissance and Baroque Era_ really is just Mercuri performing songs from the late Renaissance and early Baroque (circa 1500 to the early 1600s) era on his acoustic guitar. But the album's title also provides an implicit indication of the approach, accurately suggesting an austere, frills free approach to an entirely instrumental album, despite much of the source material containing lyrics. Mercuri is a classically trained musician who has substantial experience performing in various orchestras and ensembles; neither is he a stranger to the less rarefied neofolk scene through Rose Rovine e Manti. _EMaBfRaBE_ has been recorded in various halls and churches, but it is not clear what effect this has had other then to lend this work an extra-musical aura of antiquity and grandeur. Mercuri's background informs his approach, and this approach has little in common with hirsute heathens wielding guitars and mjolnirs: it's more likely to appeal to aficionados of Segovia than fans of Sol Invictus.

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