Tessellas make up a mosaic as voices do polyphony.
Traditional singing is monologue of several,
singers communicating with their eyes and ears.
It joins voices together, and the phrasing marks the beat.
Such singing comes from the heart, over and above any formal musical technique.

The group Ardalh was formed gradually out of the pleasure a few singers from the Cante Mourlanésa got from meeting up to sing well-known, or not-so-well-known, songs for which they could invent, or re-invent, specific harmonies.

Given the flexibility a small, vocal group allows for, especially one that is mixed , Ardalh has forged its own particular identity. This identity stems from the colour of the voices, and the choice of multipart singing/vocal polyphony has produced original, creative voices with different colours and with intonations borrowed from our imaginations and fuelled by our own personal histories, far off the beaten track.

Ardalh has in no way disowned tradition. The singing tradition has evolved again and again throughout History, and people tend to forget this.

Ardalh is playing a part in this slow evolution that makes the tradition so lively.