Romaria

The tenderly melancholic album crosses the genres, with potential appeal to early music lovers, world music and jazz improvisation audiences alike. John Potter has selected a program of early songs and polyphonic vocal repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant and the Carmina burana manuscript (13th century) to Josquin Despre(c.1450/55-1521). Potter sees written music as a resource for fresh ideas and ravishing colors. All arrangements are developed in the improvisational interplay between the four musicians. The Dowland project appears on this third album in a slightly modified line-up: four outstanding players from different musical and cultural backgrounds fusing early music, folk and jazz sensibilities