Tag: traditional music

• Music Recorded music

  Sven Kacirek – The Kenya Sessions (world music)

  

  Altin Village & Mine will shortly (at the time of writing) be releasing The Kenya Sessions as a vinyl album, but they will be doing so about a year after its original CD and MP3 release on Pingipung, which gives me a welcome excuse to cover a recording that managed…

  January 31, 2012
• Music Recorded music

  Juana Ghani – Budmo! (gypsy/ folk)

  

  Juana Ghani play central European gypsy music (as far as I can tell, I’m no expert). They are a large band, incorporating a variety of instruments, some plucked, some struck, some blown and some squeezed. The songs collected here are driven along by a tightly and propulsively played brass bass…

  July 14, 2011
• Music Recorded music

  Heidi Harris – Underneath The Grass And Clover (folk)

  

  Heidi Harris works with a palette of folk and Americana pigments, but she doesn’t paint quite the pictures you might expect. Folk music is a collective aurality, the sonic expression of an orally transmitted tradition, and as such, it daubs its canvases with the colours of communal experience: even when…

  July 5, 2011