CordaSonora team is always on the lookout for collaborations.

We are available to perform in festivals and occasions, we enjoy producing music with new collaborators, become part of concert formations, compose and perform for documentaries and just as much, we are also highly interested in producing game and movie soundtracks.

Get in touch with us via

contact@cordasonora.com
or 
cordasonoraproductions@gmail.com

Until then,

Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira & Ricardo Alves Pereira
Recording artist, composer, arranger, sound engineer, video editor, photographer, designer @CordaSonora

For personal queries:
ricardo.nap@gmail.com
esin.yardimli@gmail.com

CordaSonora Family

Since the successful GoFundMe campaign for early music instruments the TWB Ensemble held, supporters of CordaSonora projects can become members of the CordaSonora Family, which allow them to gain access to premium content and get to read stories orbiting around music produced, get to see the behind the scenes and development stages of various projects via exclusive vlog content and newsletter.

You can become a CordaSonora Family Member by donating your heart’s desire through PayPal to paypal.me/esiny91 with the text explanation “CordaSonora Family” followed by your name and your e-mail address or by contacting us via e-mail to discuss alternative ways.

Conversation Starters

Aside from what you see on this website which are things we clearly love nerding about, we very much like conversations that include the following words in them:

(In random order) Cooking, V: The New Mythology Suite, lose leaf herbal teas, Morrowind, Skyrim, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory, LOTR (books, movies and the soundtrack), The Witcher (books and games and 1st season), American Gods, SW IV V VI, DS9, The Mandalorian, Neverending Story, Universal Migrator Pt.: 1&2, Annabel Lee, The Discworld, etymology, psychology, mythology, Blackwater Park, Alpha Noir/Omega White, Mezzanine (the album), Frasier, Star Trek TNG, D&D, 1906.

Previous Albums

Recent
Releases

Contemporary music, early music, world music and classical music works. Click here to see all previous releases.

The sixth album by the TWB Ensemble (The Wandering Bard) is an exhilarating journey through sound, a musical marvel that breathes new life into the medieval Cantigas de Santa Maria, attributed to Alfonso X, the Wise, a visionary Iberian king of the 13th century embellished by a legend from Leyriath.

In “Streams of Tranquility”, the immersive and modern melodies weave the album’s soundscape into the depths of calmness within the contemporary music scene. Aside from presenting his skills as a classical guitar player, in this album Ricardo Alves Pereira also shares his composer side with the audience; and it is fresh, intimate and inviting.

“My Vielle and the Rest” is a collection of 12th and 13th century songs, mainly but not only composed by troubadours and trouvairitz, presented as instrumental music in their most profound and most candlelit form for the audience to experience the silence, enjoy the darkness and cherish everything one can find within.

LATEST PREMIUM CONTENT

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A Small Bit of a Very Big Picture:

Alfonso X and Cantigas de Santa Maria

A musical note on itself is very hard to “obtain emotion” from, we need to hear the note in its melodic context to find its meaning, was it high? Low? Long? Short? Followed by many many notes? Was it the only note for a full minute? All those answers related to a note we hear depend on what we had heard right before, and what we will hear after; over time. 

Same applies to a king as well. So I will write a text some might find confusing now. Because history needs a before and an after to be really heard. Its very much like music. It needs time.

So, here we go. El Sabio, the wise one.

(Includes a timelapse video from the latest CordaSonora photoshoot)

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