Love to My Liking

Love to My Liking is an album of medieval trouvère music featuring some of the most sensuous and saucy vocal music of the 13th century on historical instruments.

Continuing the tradition of the troubadours, the trouvères of Northern France wrote some of the most captivating vocal music of the 13th century. Their songs of public and private adoration wove together allusions both sacred and secular—creating mystical and spicy meditations on love and longing, punctuated by repeating refrains that recur across songs and texts. Alkemie reimagines these courtly love lyrics for our time, transforming songs typically sung for and written by men into passionate evocations by female singers. The lush musical textures are equally informed by historical performance practice, bluegrass, old time, and Celtic music, creating an alien yet familiar soundscape that bridges the past and present.

Alkemie performs two concerts on April 13 and April 14 to celebrate 10 years of friendship with this album release!

Tracy Cowart

voice, harps, percussion; producer

David McCormick

vielle

Charles Mueller

producer, recording engineer

Sian Ricketts

voice, douçaines, recorders; producer

Ben Matus

hümmelchen

Produced by Tracy Cowart, Charles Mueller, and Ellie Sutherland.
Engineered by Charles Mueller.
Mastered by Mike Tierney.
Recorded at Oktaven Audio & Tiny Panther Recording, Mount Vernon NY, July 2022.
Executive Producer Sian Ricketts.
Photography by Anja Schutz.
Cover art and design by Haeg Design.
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Produced by Tracy Cowart, Charles Mueller, and Ellie Sutherland. Engineered by Charles Mueller. Mastered by Mike Tierney. Recorded at Oktaven Audio and Tiny Panther Recording, Mount Vernon, NY, July 2022. Executive Producer Sian Ricketts. Photography by Anja Schütz. Cover art and design by Haeg Design.

Niccolo Seligmann

vielles, viola a chiavi, psaltery, scheitholt, gittern, percussion

Ellie Sutherland

voice

Elena Mullins-Bailey

voice, lyre, percussion