“I neither live nor die,
From the lowest depths to the highest stars,
The chosen flower, filled with great beauties.

And you will enchant the enchanter, my vielle,
For there is reason to my pain,
But roots are what one keeps.

As breaks the dawn, when winter returns,
In the shade of an olive tree, I have in you my good hope.
Hoist the gall from me, blossom sprung from a single root,

I’ll go far away if my heart wants to follow.”

(This is not a poem written by one person. It is constructed by assembling quotations from songs of troubadours, trobairitz and other valuable people of the medieval ages whose music is found in My Vielle and the Rest.)

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. Only the bonus track is originally an instrumental piece found to be notated at a later century. The entire album is a duo between the instrument vielle and the silence, as hinted by the title. Each track is the result of a thorough research starting from the (if available multiple) manuscript/s, and a translation work that swims through Old Occitanian, Latin and other languages songs were originally written in, to get the essence of the song out without using the human voice. Perfomed by Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira on her instrument Venus the Vielle, an instrument funded by The Wandering Bard supporters and made specially for her by Orlando Trindade, this album is made to experience the silence, enjoy the darkness and cherish everything one finds within.