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Written in fRoots issue 317/318, 2009
 

AMAIA ZUBIRIA
Nabil
Elkar KD-766 (2008)

Amaia Zubiria is a singer of world class, as I find I first wrote back in 1985 of her duo LP with Pascal Gaigne, Egun Argi Hartan. She’s a Basque equivalent of Mallorca’s magnificent Maria del Mar Bonet or Sardinia’s Elena Ledda but, unlike those, much under-celebrated in her own land or any other. Melodiousness flows out of her mouth like soothing balm. Joined by her old friend guitarist, arranger and producer Gaigne, who has long understood her value and provided her with arrangements of great elegance, with accordion, double bass and occasional percussion, she delivers a string of the mostly slow, caressing treatments in which she excels of songs traditional and by Basque writers. She should be acclaimed, it’s time she was, and this is perhaps her finest album.

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© 2009 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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