GRAIU - Tora (2023)

Fusing in sound and spirit African-American music from before blues and jazz with Balkan Romance (Vlach) heritage, GRAIU is the Romanian word for local vernacular language and traditional music. TORA (Aromanian word for now) transcends time and space in a multicultural, stylistically coherent melting pot, bringing together field-holler and doina, spirituals and ritual songs, outlaw ballads and prison work songs, gospel, slave shouts, love and sorrow tunes, in the Vlach dialects Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian and Daco-Romanian alongside the African-American vernacular. A contemporary reinterpretation, organically integrating the richness of traditional singing styles, of music not created for entertainment purposes, from the then into the now.

Tracklist:
1.01 - GRAIU - Anamisa Di Doi Lai Munts (4:07)
1.02 - GRAIU - C-Asa Giucau Batranii (2:27)
1.03 - GRAIU - Afro-Doina (0:47)
1.04 - GRAIU - John the Revelator Medley (5:19)
1.05 - GRAIU - Durostore (1:51)
1.06 - GRAIU - Ascultats La Fete (3:19)
1.07 - GRAIU - If I Had My Way (2:56)
1.08 - GRAIU - Nu Na Dzat Patrioti (2:44)
1.09 - GRAIU - Coanticu Lu Bosca (3:50)
1.10 - GRAIU - Cucule, Penele Tale (1:37)
1.11 - GRAIU - Mushuteatsa Ataua, Fiata (2:13)
1.12 - GRAIU - Early in the Morning (2:58)
1.13 - GRAIU - Cantecul Miresei (2:40)
1.14 - GRAIU - Batu Giumaru (2:57)
1.15 - GRAIU - Chitu Mila (2:48)
1.16 - GRAIU - Preste Codru-Am Amnaveit (2:15)
1.17 - GRAIU - Mi Lo Dorlu (3:01)
1.18 - GRAIU - Soul of a Man (3:59)
1.19 - GRAIU - Trandafir De Pe Razor (3:06)

Alina Ciolcă - vocals
Mac Marian Aciobăniței - guitar
Adrian Chepa - percussion