The voice and hurdy gurdy nomadic instruments freed/redeemed and reinvented through Orients and Occidents, through genres, styles, ancestral oralities and age-old traditions transform all this baggage into something that is finally new and resolutely avant-garde, offering us an other taste, other way of listening... of feeling. These unclassifiable musicians make daring associations between popular and experimental music and thus contribute to subvert and enrich the listening of the initiated and uninitiated alike. This is why their music, while surprising, seems familiar; it touches, dazzles and excites us.
The extended technique applied to the hurdy gurdy and voice in aCuerdas blurs the borders between composition, improvisation and experimentation. While Fátima Miranda’s voice, closely tied to deep registers from antiquity, and research have led her to discover more and more Voices of the Voice and cover a range of over four octaves, Marc Egea's hurdy gurdy comes out of its historic refuge as an accompanying instrument, flying in the face of its thousand-year existence to bring forth sounds never before heard.
As is characteristic of Miranda’s poetics, aCuerdas creates successive ritual, intimate, melancholic, cheerful and crazy atmospheres, harmonising the everyday and the sublime, the sacred and the profane, with a subtle, healthy, transgressive sense of humour.
One can be sure that the music of this uchronic duo will amaze and never leave you indifferent.