Idrîsî Ensemble

@idrisi.ensemble

Obsessed with the Medieval Mediterranean 📖 Director: @thomasfournil
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A French folk song with medieval roots in Occitania, ~ ‘Rossignolet du Bois’ tells of a young lover seeks courting advice from a nightingale. Sung by our @noum_._ and @thomasfournil 🌿 Tickets to our @unionchapeluk show, November 16th are on sale now, link in bio! #medieval #frenchfolk #occitan #occitania #medievalmusic #ancient #ancientmusic #chanting #chant #manuscript #médiéval #medievale
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Idrîsî Ensemble are making their hugely anticipated Irish debut as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2026. ✨🇮🇪 13 June, 7pm St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork Plus: Old Roman chant workshop & talk with @thomasfournil Friday 12 June, 1pm Book both via the Idrîsî website, link in the bio.
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Flame, stone and flower: Lucie Rose Galvani painting the cover art for our song ‘Dieus Sal la Terra’. @lucie_rose_art works on paper with handmade paints, natural medieval pigments, and miniature painting techniques. The fire is built from cinnabar and orpiment - mineral pigments as luminous as they are toxic. The rock is layered with ochres, green earth and slate. For the flower, we took inspiration from Saxifraga × conradiae - a rare, little-documented Corsican hybrid, naturally occurring through a meeting of island and mainland. It felt like a fitting image for a Corsican song sung in medieval Occitan. What do the flame, rock and flower symbolise to you? #medievalart #naturalpigments #paghjella #symbolism #handcrafted
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Layale singing an insiraf - an Andalusi form born in medieval Spain (al-Andalus), still sung in Algeria, in an 11-beat (11/16) cycle. Kanun: @konstantinosglynos Kaval: @dover.oliver Percussion: @prathxox #insiraf #algeria #andalusimusic #medievalspain #northafricanmusic
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Isadora sings ‘Fargisn Blut’ live @unionchapeluk . A Tkhine is a Yiddish devotional prayer, typically written and sung by women, making them unique in a world where Hebrew prayer and study were historically heavily male-dominated. @rebbe_tzn wrote this tkhine using words from ‘A New Soul Remembrance Tkhine for the Martyrs of a Pogrom’, preserved in Shas Tkhine by Rav Peninim, for the album ‘Lider Mit Palestine’. The title of the song translates as ‘Spilled Blood’. Camera operator, sound recording and editor: @ignacio_lusardi_monteverde Camera operator: @conrad__armstrong #jewishmusic #yiddish #womeninmusic #livemusic #devotionalmusic
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Kyrie Eleison from Corsica, at Temple Church, London. “Lord, have mercy”; the world needs it. Watch the full video on YouTube. Link in bio. Lead voices: @dunja_botic (bassu), @noum_._ (secunda), @elizaoakes_ (terza) Choir: @taymuzik1572 , @henrytozer , @leoleoleomaa , @thomasfournil Direction: @thomasfournil Production Director, Editor and Sound Mixing: @ignacio_lusardi_monteverde Sound Recording Assistant: @ethan.lieber Roving Camera Operator: @jivahousden Additional Camera: @fin_rowland Long Shot Camera: @hmwrfilm Colour Grading: @haridas_stewart Colour Grading Consultant: Hyunwoo Yoo #KyrieEleison #CorsicanPolyphony #EarlyMusic #SacredMusic #TempleChurch
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Finnish Ingrian rune song (runolaulu) about exile, longing, constraint, survival. Read Kerttu’s full reflection and the song’s story on Idrîsî Ensemble’s new blog. Link in bio. #runolaulu #runesinging #oraltradition #finnishmusic #acappella
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@idrisi.ensemble brought Mediterranean medieval and traditional music to life at a sold-out KOKO performance, from centuries-old Roman chants to Corsican and Greek polyphonies. 🎥 Filmed by KOKO Productions, the evening was an immersive journey through history and tradition, speaking powerfully to the present. Watch the full performance of Μαριόλα / Κλαίν’ οι πέρδικες on YouTube via the link in our bio.
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Back at Cheltenham College Chapel 🤍 One of our favourite spaces, with truly sublime acoustics. We’re returning with a refreshed programme, sharing what we’ve been exploring since our last visit: new medieval discoveries set alongside living traditions from Corsica, Greece, Finland and beyond. Tickets go on sale 26 March, 10am. @cheltfestivals ✨ #idrisiensemble #cheltfestivals #cheltmusicfestival #cheltenham #livemusic
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2 months ago
Thank you, Southbank. 🤍✨ Our Queen Elizabeth Hall debut was something we will not forget. Singing the voices of the trobairitz in that room, with your close listening and big cheers, was a joy. We also loved that cathedral-like resonance. Huge thanks to @tonydbirch , inventor of the Concrete Voids system, for shaping an acoustic space within which we could feel at home. In this programme, we shared trobairitz classics, new contrafacta, a previously unrecorded Old Roman chant, and female-perspective motets, set within a wider Mediterranean story, spanning Armenian, Greek, Corsican, Syriac and Algerian traditions. Thank you @southbankcentre for having us, and thank you for filling the room with such warmth. 🤲 Photos by: @elliekoepke 📸 #idrisiensemble #trobairitz #oldromanchant #medievalmusic #southbankcentre
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‘Dieus Sal la Terra’, our treasured paghjella is out in the world! Available to stream/buy on all platforms (including our Bandcamp)🌿 This is a precious moment for us - celebrating a piece that we have crafted, honed and carried throughout the years. Thank you all for supporting us thus far🤍 Created by @thomasfournil Vocalists: @noum_._ @elsas_hi @dunja_botic & @elizaoakes_ Portative organ: @thomasfournil Artwork: @lucie_rose_art With special thanks to our recording team: Engineering/mixing- @ignacio_lusardi_monteverde Mastering- @zinomikoreymastering #médiéval #medieval #corsica #occitania #troubadour
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3 months ago
‘Dieus Sal la Terra’ will be out in 2 days 🌿 Pre-save link in bio🤍 Film by @ignacio_lusardi_monteverde Audio recording by @shaan_sethi (Tonmeister, University of Surrey) Assistants: @isy.bmusic @jacobtreasure3 #médiéval #medieval #ancient #corsica #chant
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