Description
With Flame Folclòre, Cocanha continues reclaiming Occitan folklore as a living, political, and embodied space. For Lila Fraysse and Caroline Dufau, folklore is neither decoration nor nostalgia. It is a site of struggle, where narratives, identities, and imaginaries are constantly renegotiated.
Drawing from fragments of traditional Occitan music, the duo composes, reshapes, and rewrites. Ancient melodies intertwine with original texts in a contemporary language that echoes both subversive Occitan memories and present-day struggles. The voice becomes a chronicle of the present—a way of inhabiting the now.
Driven by hypnotic polyphony and the deep pulse of stringed tambourines, the album embraces a minimal, physical, and grounded aesthetic. Repetition acts as propulsion, dance as function. Cocanha’s practice is collective by nature: to gather, to move, to fuel a joyful struggle around reclaiming the commons.
Produced by Raül Refree, Flame Folclòre intensifies the dialogue between memory and transformation. Voices strike, revolve, and respond, opening a circular space where folklore is no longer frozen, but alive and burning in the present.
TRACKLIST:
Remenanuèch
Fòrabanda
Adissiatz Palhassonaira
Clam
La Majorana
Au nòst' casalòt
Diuré tremblar
Diuré samsir
A l'amistat
Flame Folclòre
Lo mes de mai
Jana d'Aimé
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