Al Qantarah - Abballati, Abballati! - Songs and Sounds in Medieval Sicily

Here we are going well back to some roots on which later western European medieval music was built...Sicily was a crossroads of races, traditions, with varied and often exotic ethnic roots...These performances by Fabio Tricomi and the ensemble he assembled include traditional medieval instruments common to Sicily..I recommend this album to you. The sound quality is quite good, with excellent rendering of the timbre of instruments and voices. And the music is very different from what one might otherwise hear. It makes for a nice exploration into the roots of music coming later in the western European tradition with which we might be more familiar.