CordaSonora team is always on the lookout for collaborations.

We are available to perform in festivals and occasions, we enjoy producing music with new collaborators, become part of concert formations, compose and perform for documentaries and just as much, we are also highly interested in producing game and movie soundtracks.

Get in touch with us via

contact@cordasonora.com
or 
cordasonoraproductions@gmail.com

Until then,

Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira & Ricardo Alves Pereira
Recording artist, composer, arranger, sound engineer, video editor, photographer, designer @CordaSonora

For personal queries:
ricardo.nap@gmail.com
esin.yardimli@gmail.com

CordaSonora Family

Since the successful GoFundMe campaign for early music instruments the TWB Ensemble held, supporters of CordaSonora projects can become members of the CordaSonora Family, which allow them to gain access to premium content and get to read stories orbiting around music produced, get to see the behind the scenes and development stages of various projects via exclusive vlog content and newsletter.

You can become a CordaSonora Family Member by donating your heart’s desire through PayPal to paypal.me/esiny91 with the text explanation “CordaSonora Family” followed by your name and your e-mail address or by contacting us via e-mail to discuss alternative ways.

Conversation Starters

Aside from what you see on this website which are things we clearly love nerding about, we very much like conversations that include the following words in them:

(In random order) Cooking, V: The New Mythology Suite, lose leaf herbal teas, Morrowind, Skyrim, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory, LOTR (books, movies and the soundtrack), The Witcher (books and games and 1st season), American Gods, SW IV V VI, DS9, The Mandalorian, Neverending Story, Universal Migrator Pt.: 1&2, Annabel Lee, The Discworld, etymology, psychology, mythology, Blackwater Park, Alpha Noir/Omega White, Mezzanine (the album), Frasier, Star Trek TNG, D&D, 1906.

Previous Albums

Recent
Releases

Contemporary music, early music, world music and classical music works. Click here to see all previous releases.

Getting back to his roots in experimental music, in the constant company of an old vinyl, in his 4th solo album Ricardo Alves Pereira builds a musical story along the tracks that serves as a fine session of imagination for the audience to live their own RETROQUEST.

In the third volume of “The Songbook of Tchinar” series, Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira invites the audience to scare the death off its bones with a fierce dance tune, and plays through lament and hope in a heartwarming ballad.

OUD is the lightest, most peaceful, and most hopeful album to come out of CordaSonora so far. Ricardo Alves Pereira and his almond-shaped instrument invites the audience to be the visitors of a medieval inn, protected from the fierce winter outside, while enjoying a bard in the corner making his music.

PREMIUM CONTENT OF THE MONTH

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History: Part 3

On Martin Codax, Pergaminho Vindel, and Cantigas de Amigo

…Then some of these many many papyruses, parchments, papers and alike survived the fires, the earthquakes, the wars, the destruction, the reutilization, the sneezes and the touches of many many people. But many did not. So when we look at sources from hundreds of years ago, we always have to take into account that what we get to see today is only a fraction of what has been penned down in the first place.

Only with this awareness we can see the holes, the lacunas we have, in the written history and admit to our incomplete knowledge. And only after admitting this, the timeline we picture becomes more close to the reality that we may never know for sure….

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