Nuns & Roses

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Nuns & Roses

Medieval Songs of Sin & Subversion
[JOG005]

Description

Ballads of illicit love and villainous seducers (including a racy C13th cantiga about a nun getting pregnant), subversive re-workings of hymns by errant monks, and lots of noses-thumbed at authority – all delivered with Joglaresaís inimitable energy, irrepressible cheeriness, rebellion and, above all, FUN!

This programme can also be electro-medieval for arts centres and outdoor festivals..

magic and menace

The Times

compulsive rhythmic energy

The Telegraph

Musicians

Belinda Sykes voice, bagpipes

Sianed Jones voice, electric fidel

Ruth Fraser voice, percussion

Tim Garside percussion, voice, citole

Jean Kelly electric harp

May Robertson fidel

Stuart Hall electric bass

Angela Hicks voice

Track listing

  1. Ire si vis (military subversion)
  2. Co la madre (female bishops?)
  3. Magno (toppling kings)
  4. Lay of the Shepherdess (seduction)
  5. Bella doman (romantic subversion)
  6. Floret fex Favellea (political subversion)
  7. O admirabile (sexual subversion)
  8. Orientis partibus (lovesong for a donkey)
  9. Crucifigat/Curritur (ecclesiastical subversion)
  10. Cuncti simus (ecclesiastical subversion)
  11. Sinfonye for the Devil (melodic subversion)
  12. Beata divites (ecclesiastical subversion)
  13. Veritas (political subversion)
  14. Salve Virgo (a nun sings about a rose)
  15. Santa Maria amar devemos (a nun gets pregnant)
  16. Virgen (adulterous lovesong/Virgin lovesong)