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Elena Ledda

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    One of the most interesting and mysterious element in this world is miracle. Many of us believe miracles while many of us doesn't believe them. Maybe we contextualize the things we haven't met as miracle until we meet it.  Even so, we would like to coincidence with a miracle. When I listened Elena Ledda for the first time, I found her songs miracle-like.      Elena Ledda is an Italian composer. She usually sings traditional Sardinian* folk songs. Actually she was an opera singer but went for an other way. She chose singing Sardinian songs. I think she discovered something we can't see in folk songs. Maybe her root pull her into that genre of music.      Elena Ledda is also a special name. As you know, Helen was daughter of Leda and Zeus in Greek mythology. I don't know whether it is her real name or not but seems it is not her real name.      Elena has many different songs. She has both joyful folk songs...

Orange Blossom

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    It is pretty hard to be unique in today's world where everything looks like each other. Authors,architectures,sportsmen,musicians even artists are reiterate things what have been done in the past.Even so, there are some people try to do something different although the number of them is very few. Today we will listen a band which has specific songs.    Orange Blossom is a specific music group which consisted of members from different countries.It founded in Nantes(France) in 1993. The name of Orange Blossom came from a train: "Orange Blossom Special" was a passenger train between New York City and Miami.There is also a charming fiddle tune with the same name.Anyway, although it was founded in 1993 the band hadn't created any remarkable music until 2005. They tried to make Franco-Arabic music in acoustic style with violin,guitar and accordion at first.Then they lost some members of the band. After that, they changed their music. They started to mix their ...