The duet Sweet Winds was created in 2013 by french ethnomusicologist and musician / songwriter Raphaël Parejo and german female singer and musician Lilofee. Both are also researchers, Lilofee as cultural anthropologist and Raphaël as ethnomusicologist and ethnosociologist. Their knowledge as researchers –Anthropology and Ethnomusicology– had oriented their musical work.
Lilofee
Lilofee is a german-born singer who lives in Bizkaia (Bask Country, Northern Spain). She is involved in the world of songs and ballads, related to the World Music Scene. She started to sing and play acoustic guitar in her teens, before dedicating herself to studies of Anthropology and later on doing research. At her return to the music her interest focuses on ballads amongst other European repertoire, with a time-range between the Middle ages until the contemporary songwriters. Besides the acoustic guitar she habitually uses as accompaniment she also plays percussion instruments (especially frame drum) and some more instruments. She takes part in several music projects.
As soloist she presents a selection of mostly european songs and ballads, as well as historical as contemporary. The repertoire has two versions: one international and presneted with Raphaël Parejo (Sweet Winds general concert), and the other only with german songs (Songs and Ballads of the Germanic Cultures), both based on proper research.
She sings in several languages (german, spanish, bask, english and french). She also included some scandinavian songs in her program. Besides, she offers thematic programs such songs for the german Oktoberfest and songs of german cabaret tradition (in the show called Das Kabaret), and so on.
You may found more about Lilofee in her website.
Raphaël Parejo
They had called him “A world traveller through music and sounds”.
Raphaël Parejo is a french ethnomusicologist (andean countries and Basque Country), a “great” traveller (scientific expeditions in South America) member of the French Society of Explorers, and of the French Society of Ethnomusicology, and he is also a multi-instrumentalist musician and singer/songwriter, poet and photographer.
Raphaël plays strings, winds, and percussions from various countries and cultures. Since 2006 he lives and works in Biscay (Basque Country) and leads various musical projects, in group, duet and solo: Möbius Sounds (The Band), Sweet Winds duet with the german female singer Lilofee.
As soloist he presents three programs about french songs: Chansons d’en France et de la Francophonie, Chansons pour la route with more of his own compositions and more electro-acoustic sounding, and an original one-man show – Au vieux K-Barré – combining french songs, poems and prose. He handles also another musical project about latin-american traditional and non-traditional songs and musics (a part coming from his own researches and field recordings).
More informations about Raphaël are avalaible in the following websites
AS MUSICIAN
For a global vision of his works as musician, see: https://www.rparejo.eu/
AS ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST
Page on the French Society of Ethnomusicology:
http://www.ethnomusicologie.fr/la-sfe/annuaire/userprofile/rparejocoudert
Profesionnal website: http://www.ethnomusicologie.org/
LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/rapha%C3%ABl-parejo-coudert-b260427a
Ethno-audio (digitization of analogic recordings and sound restoration):
https://ethnoaudio.rparejo.eu/