Free Spirits by Ensemble de la Paix

Live recording at Pieve of San Genesio (XI Century Church) in San Secondo Parmense (Parma), Italy.

FREE SPIRITS
The music of Gurdjieff and Komitas
Armenia, Caucasus and Europe.
A journey of initiation towards the heart of tradition.

Two so overpowering and deeply spiritual personalities whose life led them to abandon their native land to arrive, passing both from Turkey, to France, the country in which they died. Their spiritual mission was indissolubly linked to music, especially that of their land: Armenia and the Caucasus.

The music of Gurdjieff and de Hartmann composed between 1924 and 1927, have the power to evoke in us the distant lands where Gurdjieff traveled, places that allowed him to collect fragments of a hidden knowledge that, like a sacred mission, he s 'imposed to rediscover and transmit. Those of us who have never dreamed of reading the "Tales of the Thousand and One Nights" or "Michele Strogoff", can live exotic adventures or expeditions in mythical caravans in the desert and meet, at the end of the journey, a spiritual reality of a other order? These songs will lead us through the mountains of the Caucasus, the wild steppes of Asia and the mysterious East, all magical and inaccessible places, able to bring us back to the heart of our deepest self. Popular music, simple, but that directly touches our soul with its undeniable freshness. Like all great spiritual masters, Gurdjieff set himself the goal of awakening the human being and helping him to rediscover in himself the path to this inner source. These music are the emotional testimony of this spiritual quest.
 
Also for Komitas, traditional music was the starting point of a spiritual journey. The pieces performed in this repertoire are taken from an anthology of traditional Armenian melodies that Komitas collected and elaborated in the early twentieth century during his work of ethno-anthropological and ethnomusicological research. Work undertaken with the desire to mend that identity and cultural and spiritual unity that with the succession of violent and vexatious foreign domination over the centuries had been severely tested. These are the words of Vazgen I, Catholicos of all the Armenians from 1955 to 1994: "The Armenian people have found and recognized his soul, his spiritual nature in the melodies of Komitas. Komitas Vardapet is an endless beginning. He will live through the Armenian people, and the Armenian people live through him, now and forever. "

Ensemble de la Paix is ​​a center of gravity, an ideal place through which suggestions and emotions reach the heart of our being. A creative workshop that explores the roots of being through music and words. A cultural, social and anthropological bridge between east and west. Crossover of cultures and religions. Ensemble de la Paix is fascination​.

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