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MBE011 NDE - Ora Oris - mixtape curated by Niño De Elche 🔗 cassette + A3 insert (link in bio)
For MBE series Niño De Elche curated and assembled a 60 minutes recording focussing around the Melisma and its declination and articulation in the Mediterranean area.
Melisma is a vocal technique in which a single syllable of text is sung over a sequence of multiple notes. Rather than moving from one syllable to the next quickly, the singer stretches the vowel sound across a long, ornamented melodic line. This creates a flowing, expressive, and often trance inducing musical effect.
Melismatic music is widespread across the Mediterranean, from popular folk music to liturgical chants mainly influenced by ancient Greek, Near Eastern, North African and later Byzantine and Arabs cultures.
In the words of Niño De Elche:
“I have the pleasure of sharing with you a brief selection of singers who, in my view, have turned their melismatic singing into common spaces. When we take the Mediterranean Sea as our point of departure, we open ourselves to a cross-listening of multiple aesthetic forms that have emerged across different territories and communities. A melisma repeated many times is a good summary of the trance to which popular singing and its music lead us, where not only the vocal expression becomes a reference, but also the dances and sounds with their violences, terrors, and celebrations. This compilation aims to be an approach to all of that. I hope you enjoy it.”
Mixtape curated and assembled by Niño De Elche
Poster by Augusto Fabio Cerqua
Credit photo Juan Carlos Quindós (courtesy of Francisco Contreras)
Poster printed by Club Del Prado
MBE series 2025 - Curated by Giovanni Napolano
For MBE series Niño De Elche curated and assembled a 60 minutes recording focussing around the Melisma and its declination and articulation in the Mediterranean area.
Melisma is a vocal technique in which a single syllable of text is sung over a sequence of multiple notes. Rather than moving from one syllable to the next quickly, the singer stretches the vowel sound across a long, ornamented melodic line. This creates a flowing, expressive, and often trance inducing musical effect.
Melismatic music is widespread across the Mediterranean, from popular folk music to liturgical chants mainly influenced by ancient Greek, Near Eastern, North African and later Byzantine and Arabs cultures.
In the words of Niño De Elche:
“I have the pleasure of sharing with you a brief selection of singers who, in my view, have turned their melismatic singing into common spaces. When we take the Mediterranean Sea as our point of departure, we open ourselves to a cross-listening of multiple aesthetic forms that have emerged across different territories and communities. A melisma repeated many times is a good summary of the trance to which popular singing and its music lead us, where not only the vocal expression becomes a reference, but also the dances and sounds with their violences, terrors, and celebrations. This compilation aims to be an approach to all of that. I hope you enjoy it.”
Mixtape curated and assembled by Niño De Elche
Poster by Augusto Fabio Cerqua
Credit photo Juan Carlos Quindós (courtesy of Francisco Contreras)
Poster printed by Club Del Prado
MBE series 2025 - Curated by Giovanni Napolano
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