Mix Nostrum is a musical remix work regarding the Mediterranean Sea. The work reuses fragments of field recordings, from online archives like the Alan Lomax Archive -Association for Cultural Equity-, CREM -Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie- or the Joaquin Díaz Foundation, as well as old vinyl records shared by various collectors on their musical blogs.
The richness of the musical cultures that dwell around the Mediterranean Sea, or the “sea of many names”, can only be grasped as the result of migrations, diasporas, journeys and exchanges throughout History. In a moment of identity exaltation, a broad view is necessary, as the unique and outstanding ideas always come from mixture. Authenticity as a value is a synonym of musical miopy. Mix Nostrum is woven from pieces of more than one hundred recordings of the traditional music that defines and crosses the space of this sea, which has tragically become one of the deadliest frontiers in the world.
Mix Nostrum is the new album by Antropoloops, a work composed with fragments of traditional music from the cultures that border the Mediterranean Sea. Each of the six musical pieces that make up the album, accompanied by collages and texts, give shape to a remix work that functions as an allegory about the search for authenticity in music.
