Babylon Numantia

• 1 Ocaso en el Albaicín 07:42
• 2 Danza del Fuego 02:56
• 3 Enigmas 06:23
• 4 Babylon 03:52
• 5 Hadi Zamani 05:02
• 6 Fluctuaciones 04:36
• 7 Reminiscencias 05:15
• 8 Samhain 04:12
• 9 Les Batailles Perdues 05:23
• 10 Tears 04:46
• Total Runtime 50:07

Info for Babylon

Having crossed many of the paths of the music of the world, these two musicians have taken the task—an anthropological one within a certain extent — of deepening in jungles of unknown sounds and being inspired by, for instance, the music of the Tuareg as much as by French Baroque or Classical Indian music.

As a result of this query, and seeking for the universals of sound, the duet creates vast atmospheres, tells ancient stories,make us travel through epic landscapes and touches the depth with melodies unknown and familiar at the same time.

"The music of Numantia takes you on a journey of the body-heart-soul. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Numantia to co-create an embodiment journey for a group of 160 women and it was absolutely extraordinary. To be able to weave and co-create with such ease, joy and seamlessness was magic. Laia and Fernando could skillfully read the room, meet us where we were at and take us beyond! Thank you for blasting our hearts open through your presence and music! You are a gift!" (Alice Hong)

Laia Pascual, voice, handpan and percussions
Fernando Noriega, Arabic oud, gypsy guitar, oriental percussions, viola da gamba & others

Numantia
is formed by Laia (voice, handpan and percussions) and Fernando (Arabic oud, gypsy guitar, oriental percussions, viola da gamba & others), whose musical dialog results in a mystical journey throughout various cultures: middle-eastern textures, Celtic melodies, African rhythms, nordic landscapes, gypsy accents, and Persian sounds.

Having crossed many of the paths of the music of the world, these two musicians have taken the task—an anthropological one within a certain extent —of deepening in jungles of unknown sounds and being inspired by, for instance, the music of the Tuareg as much as by French Baroque or Classical Indian music.

As a result of this query, and seeking for the universals of sound, the duet creates vast atmospheres, tells ancient stories, make us travel through epic landscapes and touches the depth with melodies unknown and familiar at the same time.

Laia Pascual
started her musical career as a classical flute player and as a singer, participating for over a decade in diverse orchestras for classical and antique music. Driven by the need to explore a wider world, she got immersed in World Music, mainly Latin. She discovered the handpan relatively recently and found in it an instrument which allowed her to explore harmony, melody and percussion simultaneously, developing a technique of her own that results in a strongly rhythmic polyphonic landscape.

Fernando Noriega
is a composer, a multi-instrumentalist and a singer. He has written a thesis on the Philosophy of Music and has been searching for years throughout the diversity and complexity of several traditions to find the styles, techniques and languages that better suit his expressivity. He mainly plays Oud, Guitar (Flamenco, Manouche & Electric) and Oriental Percussions (Bendir, Tombak & Darbuka), but also Bouzouki, Irish Whistle, Viola da Gamba, Accordion and Piano.

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