Genre: Classical
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Virelai: Douce Dame Jolie.
That's not available on youtube but this gives the rough idea!
Gear costume: Virelai: Quant je Sui Mis
Active compensatory factors: My university career in English ranged all over and included Chaucer and 20th century American poetry, 15th and 20th century drama, Romance of the Rose and the Romantic Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Shakespeare and Sean O'Casey.
This album stems from my university days writing an essay on courtly love. Machaut's music from 14th century France was a great mood setter.
I guess it could be seen as a kind of method acting - I love to immerse myself in literature by sampling all the different stimuli from the era (to a point - De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater was limited to a reading only!).
In this case it's the crumhorns, recorders and shawms (I have no idea sorry) from David Munrow.
On a sad note: tragically he committed suicide a couple of years after this came out. Depression strikes again.
Where do they all belong? Gregorian chants are more useful for mindfulness but there's something thrilling about this stuff sung in French or Latin!
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