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Artist
Fía na roca
12+ albums
folkspanish folkfolk galegohispanospherecelta galego
about
Without a doubt the appearance of Fia na Roca was one of the outstanding musical events in the Galician landscape of the 90’s . Their artistic contribution brought a true breath of fresh air to the treatment of traditional music in Galicia and was received with critical acclaim. The fusion of tradition and innovative arrangements , the combination of their own ideas and very different influences gives rise to an authentic and unmistakable style. The stylistic diversity together with the tonal richness used in the various compositions represents one of their hallmarks. This leads to a coherent end result with lots of character setting it apart from the commercial norm. Their discography so far consists of four albums: "Fía na roca" (1993) was their debut album. With it the group managed to attract the attention of the famous British Channel BBC , which chose its music for the soundtrack for a programme about the route to Santiago shown on Eurochannel throughout Europe in 1993. Their second album , "Agardando que pase algo", was released in 1997.Soon after its release the music was chosen to be part of a select USA and EU compilation under the title Celtic Twilight – Celtic Planet. Their third album, "Contravento", was released in 2001. The main innovation was the Galician singer Sonia Lebedynski as member number 7 of the group. Once again the music of Fía na Roca features the Route to Santiago. A Japanese TV company, “Aichi TV”, used it as a soundtrack in a series based on the
