Sufism, an ancient muslim mystical tradition, aims to practice Islam in all its purity and has been perpetrated by Dervish brotherhoods. Here is the strange liturgy of the Whirling Dervishes during which voices ponctuated by the ney, the kemanche, the kanun and the bendir, lead us towards the discovery of an unexpected world where joy is born of incantation; thus exalted by music and dance, the Dervish rises bove the things of this earth.

Tre Fontane, an ensemble of young performing musicians from Southern France, land of the troubadours, whose music they have explored extensively, have devoted the present recording to the major French Ars Nova composer Guillaume de Machaut, and leading Italian composers of the trecento, using the Codex Faenza as a central reference. Most of the time they remain fairly close to the Faenza variations on the vocal originals, with occasional extemporization.