Niccolo Seligmann, lirone NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music Instagram.com/NiccoloSeligmann Amber Evans, voice AmberEvansMusic.com YouTube @AmberEvansMusic Facebook.com/AmberEvansSoprano Instagram.com/she_squawks For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ So happy to be collaborating with fabulous singer Amber Evans! We devised this piece, meaning we wrote/compiled the text, arranged it, rehearsed it, and recorded it in (almost) one sitting! Text below: The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough (Rabindranath Tagore) At the end of the day, the land doesn't care who you are and what you've done. We replace the soil our footprints displace. (Amber Evans & Niccolo Seligmann) I can see a bird of a paradise, fruit trees in the sun. And I can hear them singing out a song for everyone. And I can see their silver wings shining out the way. And I can see them flying skies more blue than today. (trad. Australian)

Niccolo Seligmann, scheitholt NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music Instagram.com/NiccoloSeligmann Amber Evans, voice AmberEvansMusic.com YouTube @AmberEvansMusic Facebook.com/AmberEvansSoprano Instagram.com/she_squawks For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ So happy to be collaborating with fabulous singer Amber Evans! We devised this piece, meaning we wrote/compiled the text, arranged it, rehearsed it, and recorded it in (almost) one sitting! Text below: I drew my own blueprint I dug my own foundations I laid my own bricks Installed my cold windows There’s no trace of the house that used to be here I come fully furnished My A/C is brisk You can come inside But wear these slippers And don’t touch my bar soaps There are buckets in my bedroom They overflowed, and the floorboards rotted My walls are buckling day by day No one knows I live here And I can’t move out.

Niccolo Seligmann, vielle (John Pringle, 2013) NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music Instagram.com/NiccoloSeligmann For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ Lucas Ashby, hadgini (Jamey Haddad & Frank Giorgini) and kendhang (anon. Indonesian) LucasAshby.com Instagram.com/Lucas_Ashby_Music YouTube.com/Lucasashby A pleasure working with my dear friend and fellow Strathmore Artist-in-Residence alumnum Lucas Ashby ❤❤❤ This is a well-known cantiga, here in a version in 6+5/8 time that I learned from Tina Chancey. I'm playing the usual 4-string medieval fiddle (vielle) while Lucas is playing an unusual and charming percussion setup: the hadgini, a clay drum designed like a double udu drum by Jamey Haddad & Frank Giorgini, alongside an Indonesian kendhang. Enjoy the satisfying textures Lucas brings to this snaky and spicy rendition of Como poden!

Niccolo Seligmann, viola da gamba NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music Instagram.com/NiccoloSeligmann Robert Karpay, modern cello RobertKarpay.com Twitter.com/RobertKarpay Facebook.com/RobertKarpay Instagram.com/RobertKarpay For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ Thanks so much to Robert for this joyful collaboration! Always a pleasure to share improvisation language and craft something that's greater than the sum of its parts. Expect more improvisations and collaborations like this!

Niccolo Seligmann, viola da gamba NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music Instagram.com/NiccoloSeligmann Amber Evans, voice AmberEvansMusic.com YouTube @AmberEvansMusic Facebook.com/AmberEvansSoprano Instagram.com/she_squawks For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ Tobacco, tobacco, Sing sweetly for tobacco! Tobacco is like love, O love it. For you see I will prove it. Love maketh lean the fat men's tumour, So doth tobacco. Love still dries up the wanton humour, So doth tobacco. Love makes men sail from shore to shore, So doth tobacco. 'Tis fond love often makes men poor So doth tobacco. Love makes men scorn all coward fears, So doth tobacco. Love often sets men by the ears, So doth tobacco. Tobacco, tobacco, Sing sweetly for tobacco! Tobacco is like love, O love it. For you see I have proved it.

Niccolo Seligmann, vielle (John Pringle, 2011) NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ Cantigas tell such fascinating stories, always lots to unpack. Here's the Oxford synopsis (https://csm.mml.ox.ac.uk/index.php?p=poemdata_view&rec=353): "A rich man in Venice had only one son because all the rest of his children had died. He sent the boy to live in a monastery to be raised by the abbot. The abbot, who called the boy his son, let him play in the cloister. While playing, the boy often went into the church where he admired a statue of the Virgin and Child. He was captivated by the Child and went to see him often. He decided to offer him a portion of the meal they gave him. He went to the church, climbed up on the altar and laid the food out in front of the statue. He promised to bring the Child food everyday, and encouraged him to eat. The boy did this for fifteen days. Then the statue of the Child spoke to him, bidding him to eat at his Father’s table the next day. The abbot, noticing that the boy was growing thin, questioned him. The boy said that he had been sharing his food with the Child on the altar and explained that the Child had asked him to dinner. The abbot, after asking the child if he could accompany him, assembled his monks. He told them that he would be leaving and appointed a successor, a monk named Don Mateus. That night both the abbot and the boy fell ill; at the sixth hour they were taken to heaven."

Niccolo Seligmann, vielle (John Pringle, 2013) NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ First multitrack video! Let me know how you like it! I learned this medieval fiddle tune aurally from David McCormick, my dear friend and ensemble-mate in Alkemie. David is also the executive director of Early Music America! Yay! Vielles! Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most prestigious poets of 1300s France, yet his songs fit under the fingers so well, and the music is so just-the-right-amount-spicy that I can't help but jam on it as a fiddle tune. Thanks for sharing this one, David!

Niccolo Seligmann, vielle (John Pringle, 2011) NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ The lauda repertoire represents amongst the musical evidence what comes closest to a common-people's experience of religion. These were non-noble Italians singing hymns in their native language, not clerics singing in Latin. Note the leap down of a major sixth in the second line of the verse--something of a rare feature in medieval music!

Niccolo Seligmann, vielle (John Pringle, 2011) NiccoloSeligmann.com Patreon.com/NiccoloSeligmann Facebook.com/NiccoloSeligmann​​Music For more content like this, subscribe to my YouTube channel, and get exclusive content by joining my Patreon community! ❤ Thank you all so much for your continued support. I'm streamlining my process so I can be putting out content more frequently, so these descriptions are going to be much shorter. I learned this medieval fiddle tune aurally from iconic vielle queen (and Patreon supporter!) Tina Chancey, and highly recommend her group Hesperus' version of it on their album "Neo-Medieval." Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most prestigious poets of 1300s France, yet his songs fit under the fingers so well, and the rhythms he specifies are so just-the-right-amount-spicy that I can't help but jam on it as a fiddle tune. Thanks for sharing this one, Tina!