Category: Mediterranean Music.

Turkey

June 16, 2018
My make-believe journey around the Mediterranean continues. From Greece to Turkey with some of the best music of this trip....

Greece

May 4, 2018
My hyper-superficial imaginary music tour of the Med. continues. We are in Greece this time....

Albania

February 20, 2018
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...

Montenegro

February 3, 2018
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...

Bosnia and Herzegovina

January 21, 2018
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....

Seasonal torpidity

January 19, 2018
  The point of this blog in recent months has been to track my imaginary journey around the Mediterranean. Having “travelled” from Gibraltar to Bosnia...

Croatia

December 11, 2017
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...

Slovenia

November 21, 2017
So far … so good, but time to review the rules. To this point, the Mediterranean make-believe expedition has concentrated on coastal towns and...

All the way to Venice (and Trieste)

October 23, 2017
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...

Italy – Toe to heal

October 3, 2017
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...

Italy – North West – Nord Ovest

August 27, 2017
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....

Hello Monaco – goodbye Monaco

August 13, 2017
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...

Mediterranean France

August 6, 2017
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...

Adéu a Catalunya, Adiós España

July 19, 2017
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...

Mediterranean Music – Catalonia

July 16, 2017
Catalonia, do you have a lot of music; and even more diversity than I was expecting, and a lot of protest which I suppose...

Books for the journey

July 7, 2017
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...

Mediterranean Music – Valencia

July 7, 2017
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...

Mediterranean Music – Murcia

June 27, 2017
The next stop on my make-believe music of the Mediterranean tour is Murcia. Aside from one discovery – Cuadrillas - the search is disappointing....

Mediterranean Music – Gibraltar

June 11, 2017
The beginning of the journey and the beginning of the project. The search for interesting and challenging music around the Mediterranean starting in Gibraltar....