Tanca Ruja perform a fine balancing act, combining the rigorous beauty of traditional and folk music with the freedom that comes with innovation, finding perfect harmony with their unique blend of Sardinian and many other types of music. This is true world music: a journey around the world taking Sardinia as a starting point and centre of gravity.

In this record we can hear the band’s urgent desire to communicate and relay to the listener their musical discoveries, their aim to blend the new with the old and play the language of the Global Village.

A musical evolution, which takes as its base today’s melting pot of different races and is spurred on by the folk music of Sardinia which centuries of history have made perfect without damaging its beauty and dignity. They make a selection from the ‘new’ and yet respect original traditional sounds and rhythms and the Sardinian culture thereby becomes a point of reference which in turn transforms itself into a live musical memory.

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