{"product_id":"sylvain-rifflet_troubadours-vinyl_2019_lad","title":"TROUBADOURS (vinyl)","description":"In Troubadours, the idea was not historical accuracy but rather an imagined ambition of what poetic music could be today, carried by a very simple instrumentation: two wind instruments, a drone, and a few percussions. Sylvain Rifflet drew inspiration from recordings of secular medieval music (often by unknown authors).\n\"I had never made a 'modal' album, and I wanted to try this adventure while ensuring I stayed as far as possible from the clichés of a saxophonist venturing into modal music. In that case, the reference to Coltrane is quite complex to avoid. By turning to a hybrid sound: modal music and Indian drones, I had broader and more interesting musical possibilities for this project.\"\n\n- Troubadours\nA troubadour (from Occitan trobador: \"finder,\" trobairitz in the feminine: \"finder\") is a medieval composer, poet, and musician writing in the Occitan language, who performed or had jongleurs or minstrels perform their poetic works.\n- Modal music: Monodic medieval music was initially accompanied only by percussion or a drone. Tension\/release phenomena were truly the sources of modal music. This translates into playing on a mode (a series of notes) and then combining these phenomena with the note played by the drone. This is the basic principle of Indian music, in a very","brand":"Sylvain Rifflet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310299627864,"sku":null,"price":23848997.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381552447_2f060c4c-e52e-4512-9429-536d737ba52c.jpg?v=1760317800","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/sylvain-rifflet_troubadours-vinyl_2019_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}