The Roving Musicologist
Found Sound, Outsider, Street Performers, Sound Events, Experimental, Recorded and Posted with a minimum of interference.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Travel Post #6: Gjirokaster Folk Festival with Three Women
High in the Mountains
Gjirokaster is a small town in the south of Albania. All of the old houses are made of stone. Even the roofs of the houses are made of a black slate that is found on the hillsides. Because of a lack on investment in the town, there isn’t money to keep them up and there are wrecks of the houses scattered around town. But many of them are still up and there is an Ottoman castle on the top of the mountain. That’s where this festival was, overlooking the valley far below.
These singers were about the first thing I heard when I came in, and one of the two best things I recorded over the course of two days there.
While it sounds like it has been looped, it hasn’t.
Play count: 41
