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Written in
fRoots
issue 333, 2011
AULI
EtnoTranss
Lauska/Westpark 87200 (2010)
The Latvian bagpipes band at last cracks it with this big, powerful third album.
Well and heftily produced, six wild pipes in unison and harmony, a trough-fiddle
and three thundering skin-drummers, given foundation by grinding bowed guest
double bass, in well-wrought original tunes evocative of a kind of muscular
Latvian tribal tradition.
www.westparkmusic.eu
© 2011 Andrew Cronshaw
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