8th Roya Early Music Festival: "Los Pasos perdidos, the breath of the Old and New Worlds".

An invitation to meditation and dreams, but also to ritual and dance, this is a journey through breath, to the rhythm of skin and wood percussion, in the sound universe of the flutes of humanity's ancient civilizations: from medieval double flutes, direct descendants of the flutes and Aulos of Greek and Roman antiquity, to the double and triple flutes of the ancient civilizations of Mexico, from the 3-hole flute and drum of medieval minstrels, which have survived in many traditions of France and Spain, as well as in many other cultures.
from Mexico to Peru, whether made of bone, ceramic, reed or bamboo, wood, hollowed (North American Plains Indian love flute), or turned (Western recorders), to seduce the living or communicate with spirits.

"Be above all a beast of breath", said Franz Bruggen in his provocative way during the master classes he gave at the end of the 70s, or "a mystic of breath", as many traditions suggest.
This program is therefore a questioning of the original power of the music generated by this "ancestral" breath and rhythm, which can lead to trance, meditation or jubilation, but also to the sharing of a moment of musical complicity between a father and his daughter...