专辑简介

Albanian Music- from the north,imost of the time in western world have mistaken Albanian music as merely Turkish or Greek. Others would argue that the Albanian musical tradition is distinguished by its originality and provides a solid historical foundation for early European music. Few musician have acknowledged the fact that Illiricum(today Shqiperia - Albania), was one of the first areas to be influenced by the new Christian liturgy which would have been distributed around the early churches at that time (I-II BC). No one is aware the bagpipes have originated from the region of south Albania.Early music was used a lot to animate the rituals of different Illyrian tribes.

Palok Kurti from city of Shkodra(Scutari),was the first Albanian composer to write down songs based on the musical tradition of the native town,in fact,before and during his time the "aheng" urban music of the native Shkodra which was unwritten music,was heavily under the influence of Turkish music because of 500 years of occupations under Turkish empire.