Doa – O Son Da Estrela Escura (1979, LP, Spain)

Tracklist:
A1 Festa De Loor
A2 Danza Do Rosal
A3 Danza Das Espadas
A4 La Pernette
A5 Carballesa
B1 Cantiga V
B2 Romance De Doña Eusenda
B3 Cabalgata De Ribadavia
B4 A Casadiña Infiel
B5 Cantiga II

Musicians:
Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Lute, Dulcimer, Spinet – Xoan Piñón
Bagpipes, Bombarde, Bodhrán – Xaquín Blanco
Cello – Enrique Ferreira
Flute, Irish Flute, Percussion – Bernardo Martínez
Violin – Pedro Puértolas
Vocals, Cittern, Hurdy Zanfona, Bass Drum – Miro Casabella

Finisterre, at the end of the pilgrims+ road to Santiago de Compostela, is the "Estrela Oscura" (Dark Star), the last star in the Milky Way. We still do not know for how long it had been a mysterious point of magnetism, even before Christianity, that lured many different cultures of Indo-European peoples into the Galician lands. This was a seed for the development of a single music, all of it stemming from magical motivations. This work is a small anthology of traditional pieces from different times and origins. For its making, we started from the actual scores of the different collections of songs. We did not aim at doing it in an orthodox way but rather using (in a subjective manner) the sensitivity this land has as a guide.