"ERES", 2011

This project combines various elements I find interesting and powerful in music, more specifically folklore, minimalism and computer based experimental music.
I have collected several folk lullabies over the past few years, with the sole intention of preserving and keeping those melodies with me. Some of the songs were recorded as a memory of people I have met around the world and some of them I found online while exploring this enormous subject.
In the end I chose six pieces from a variety of countries and began arranging them in a minimalistic experimental fashion, with the intention of creating something new -- an experimental-folk fusion. Some of the pieces are drone based and others have almost no underlying supportive harmony.

The project also explores the concepts of unity and uniqueness. The songs do come from different cultures but the reason for choosing them was that all had the same effect on me, I felt that they shared something.
I came to realize that the power concealed in folk music is about simplicity -- the tribalism that sometimes hides behind modern disguises. I have tried to reach for that essential core and bring it out again, in my way.

1. "Ri La Rosa" (Sicily)
2. "Mon P'tit Garcon" (France)
3. "Kvelden Lister Seg På Tå" (Norway)
4. "Yalla Tnam Rima" (Lebanon)
5. "Layla Layla" (Israel)
6. Choguko Region Lullaby (Japan)

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