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Written in fRoots issue 210, 2000


NA LÚA
Feitizo
Do Fol BOA 10002019 (1999)

Throughout its long career Na Lúa has followed a winding path through approaches and styles, but it has been a path consistently different from that of other Galician bands. The upsurge in popularity of Iberian roots musics seems to have sparked some of the long-established bands into a new focus and directedness, and Feitizo shows this one refreshed and exuberant.
      Full of memorable traditional melodic shapes and rich-textured instrumentation, rattling skipping pandeiretas, thudding bombo, thrumming fretted strings and Antón Rodríguez’ and Cándido Lorenzo’s skirling gaitas and single reeds, with vocals by the main arrangers, frets player Paz Antón and accordeonist/guitarist Xabier Debesa, plus guests Aloia Martínez and the female vocal group As Donicelas, this is probably the most lively, natural and upfront album Na Lúa has ever made.
  

© 2000 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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