Arrels (Roots) represents a new approach to traditional Valencian music, interpreting it through the prism of the early music repertoire. After three decades working to recover our musical heritage, Capella de Ministrers felt it was time to undertake a reevaluation of music from the oral tradition by seeking out the links between this tradition and the oldest known compositional forms: those found in threshing songs and lullabies, in instrumental pieces with irregular beats, and in the chants of the auroros (‘dawn singers’) as well as the more famous boleros, fandangos and peteneras, whose commonalities of form and harmonic structure with passacaglias and ostinatos suggest that they too originated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Arrels presents songs and instrumental pieces that trace and reaffirm the oral traditions of a rich and diverse musical world, reuniting the early music of its manuscripts or printings with the oral traditions of its people. Beyond “flamenco” in Spanish musical tradition.

Tracklisting:
1. Xiqueta meua
- Cançó de bressol
2. Fandanguet
3. Sandinga de Xixona
- Lletra de Jaume Pérez Montaner
4. Boleros de Guadassuar i l’Alcúdia
- Lletres tradicionals, de Marc Granell i de Vicent Andrés Estellés
5. Tocs de Morella
- Gegants, Traspasset i Albades
6. La Llarga
- Cant d’Auroros (Vall d’Uixó)
7. Peteneres de La Vilavella
- Lletra de Marc Granell
8. Riberenca
- Cant d’estil. Lletra de Isabel Robles
9. Mareta
- Cançó de bressol (Alacant)
10. La perdiueta
- Jotes
11. Fandanguet i Nans de Xàtiva
12. Cants de batre
- La tendera de Muro
- Cavalllers mireu si es pena
- Catalina li diuen
13. Xàquera d’Alcàsser
14. Goigs a Nostra Senyora de l’Antiga
- J. Bautista Comes
15. L’u
- Cant d’estil. Lletra de Begonya Pozo

Texts: Carles Magraner, Josep Vicent Frechina

Capella de Ministrers:
- Elia Casanova (voice)
- Josep Aparicio ‘Apa’ (voice)
- Carles Magraner (violas)
- Lixsania Fernández (violas, violone)
- Sara Águeda (harp)
- Eduard Navarro (bandurria, connamusa, dulzaina)
- Robert Cases (theorbo, guitar)
- Aziz Samsaoui (kanu
- David Antich (flutes)
- Pau Ballester (percussion)

Booklet in Valencian, Spanish, English and French