What is the cultural origin of this type of music?

[Tacitus]

Sounds a little like Arbereshe music I have heard. (some of the most beautiful music of Europe, btw)



As someone said, it's clearly "just" Sicilian. A combination of native, Arabic, Byzantine-Greek, Italo-Norman tastes and influences. Just a hunch going by its uniqueness. Put a bunch of stuff in a blender and you get something new. Sounds also a bit like stuff from Morricone or Theodorakis soundtracks

That song sounds more southern Italian than Albanian, besides the language of course.

[Sikeliot]

Probably evolved from Medieval Sicily, which would've been a mix of Byzantine, Arab, and Norman culture.

I assumed so. But which one comes through in it most?

It may seem like I am asking for simple answers where they are impossible to give, so I apologize. I am just curious

[Mark]

General S. Italian with subtle near east elements.