Category: Mediterranean Music.

The search continues. Undeterred by almost total failure to find music worth listening to in Montenegro we cross the border into what was post 1945...

Gentle reader, I have failed. Aside from some rather cheesy (to my ears/eyes, anyway) “folk” videos and a few Eurovision entries, I can find no music...

It is more than a month since my last post. It is more than seasonal torpidity that has kept me back. But it is largely....

  The point of this blog in recent months has been to track my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean. Having “travelled” from Gibraltar to Bosnia...

After several days searching, I thought was going to get nowhere with Croatia. This tour began as an exploration of the coasts of the countries...

So far … so good, but time to review the rules. To this point, the Mediterranean make-believe expedition has concentrated on coastal towns and...

Time for a breather and look back on the last few months’ music collecting. We started our journey in Gibralter, and I am pausing...

Almost the last part of the of the Italian leg (sorry!) of this imaginary Mediterranean journey. Leaving Apulia and moving north, the plan now is to...

To the deep south of Italy to discover some of the most exciting and invigorating music that I have heard for years, all the more...

Finding music and literature from Rome, Naples and Florence on an imaginary journey around the Meditteranean....

It's always the same. When I get excited about music I want to share it immediately. Even though, on this invented trip around the Med.,...

Leaving Monaco with an Italian novel in my hand (set in Monaco) heading for North West Italy and music from Liguria, Lombardy,  Piedmont, Milan and Bologna....

As I continue my search for the best ethno/world music from the Mediterranean, (without leaving my home) I arrive in Monaco with all its soulless...

My imaginary Mediterranean music tour continues. It was music from this region that twanged my interest in the search-the-Med-for-music trip. I have no idea how...

I have tried very hard to trim down the playlists from Mediterranean Spain. I was aiming for 20. The final list has 50 and there...

Catalonia, do you have a lot of music; and even more diversity than I was expecting, and a lot of protest which I suppose...

In my imaginary musical journey I decided to add some books to read along the way. I had already started to blog the journey and...

So far the best discovery of all the music in Valencia is the preservation and performance of early Spanish Music. The key figures seem to...

The next stop on my make-believe music of the Mediterranean tour is Murcia. Aside from one discovery – Cuadrillas - the search is disappointing....

The next part of my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean - music from Andalucía. If, when you think of Spain you see images of flamenco...

In the last post my imaginary journey was a walk through the border between Gibraltar and Spain. My intention was first to travel east exploring...

The beginning of the journey and the beginning of the project. The search for interesting and challenging music around the Mediterranean starting in Gibraltar....

This will be a tour I would love to take in real time; I doubt if I ever will. Our starting point and finish line...