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Written in fRoots issue 221, 2001

TRIO KAVKASIA
O Morning Breeze - Traditional Songs From Georgia
Naxos World 76014-2 (2001)

US male trio sing 25 songs learnt in Georgia (Caucasian republic, not US state), in Georgian 3-part harmony with the occasional extra line on chonguri, panduri (both lutes) or bowed chunir. Due care and attention paid to Georgian pitch subtleties, but it’s inevitably a style and language carefully reproduced by fascinated outsiders. But then, so is much of what gets described as “folk music”. www.naxos.com


SEDJANKA
Sedjanka - Denmark
Sedjanka SECD001 (2001)

Showing that Danish women, directed (as is other Danish Bulgarian choir Usmifka) by Bulgarian Michael Deltchev in arrangements mostly by himself, Koutev or Kjurkchiiski, can sound startlingly like the great Bulgarian folk choirs. Guest Tzvetanka Varimezova takes, very finely, the classic solo parts in a couple. Like Trio Kavkasia, I suppose it’s as valid as, and considerably more adventurous than, singing Italian opera or Schubert lieder.



© 2001 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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