Tarta Relena Like Their Voices To Travel
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Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena\'s vocal-based music limns centuries and borders, ranges from the sacred to the secular, and often uses electronics. Their body of work so far reimagines Mediterranean folk, Georgian laments, and the 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. Then, there\'s\\xa0their setting of verse from Afghan Pashto women singing about \\u201ccontroversial subjects such as envy, broken hearts, hatred or lust\\u201d, and adapted sacred music (they met as members of a religious music choir), (Songlines, 2022).\\xa0Singing in Catalan, Spanish, Greek, Latin, English and Ladino, they treat each language as a tool, a color to bring up an emotion.
\\nTarta Relena\\u2019s arrangements and performances traffic in the intense spirituality and human connection of the music, which lands with joy and poignancy, enhanced by dramatic use of electronics: percussion, drone, some bass synth, and vocal effects. For this edition of the Soundcheck Podcast, Tarta Relena sings a cappella, just like they started the duo back in 2016. They perform on location from the 2023 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. - Caryn Havlik
\\nP.S.\\xa0\\u201cTarta relena\\u201d means \\u201cstuffed pie\\u201d in Spanish.
\\nSet list: "Esta Montagne d\\u2019enfrente", "Tuta Pulchra"
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\\nWatch "Esta Montagne d\\u2019enfrente":
\\nWatch "Tuta Pulchra":
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