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Written in fRoots issue 240, 2003

BENITO LERTXUNDI
Nere Ekialdean
Elkar KD-622 (2002)

Leading Basque chansonnier Lertxundi’s voice has over a long career gained an almost Leonard Cohen like gravitas (in a good way), and a similar intellectual reflectiveness. The Cohen comparison is particularly raised here in the beautifully wrought, darkly-suppressed arrangements, of lyrics by poet Fernando Pessoa, Lertxundi and others, including an Euskara version of Pete Seeger’s Old Devil Time.


© 2003 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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