Love to My Liking

Alkemie

Release Date: April 12, 2024

Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvères of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th century. Their songs of public and private adoration wove together allusions both sacred and secular—creating mystical and spicy meditations on love and longing, punctuated by repeating refrains that recur across songs and texts. Alkemie reimagines these courtly love lyrics for our time, transforming songs typically sung for and written by men into passionate evocations by female singers. The lush musical textures are equally informed by historical performance practice, bluegrass, old time, and Celtic music, creating an alien yet familiar soundscape that bridges the past and present.

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TRACK LIST

1. E, bone amourette / La rotta della Manfredina

2. Por mon cuer a joie atraire

3. La tierche estampie

4. Li louseignolz que j’ai chanter

5. Li maus amourous | Dieus, por quoi | (Portare)

6. La septime estampie real

7. Joliement | Quant voi | Je sui joliete | (Aptatur)

8. Dieus, de chanter | Chant d’oisiaus | (In seculum)

9. La seconde estampie royal

10. Nus ne set | (Regnat) / Duskes ci ai plus amors honoree | (Regnat)

11. Bele doette as fenestres se siet

12. La joliveté | Douce amiete | (V)

13. L’autrier chevauchoie delez Paris