Unwired: Europe

Various
(Rough Guide, RGNET1101)

A folk-music renaissance is taking place throughout Europe, as fiddle, accordion and acoustic guitar music – at times confined to rural villages – has once again become the rage throughout the continent. This album is an acoustic musical journey across the continent, featuring the leading virtuosos of Spanish flamenco, captivating vocalists of Portuguese fado and Greek rembetika, infectious Gypsy balladeers, enthralling Balkan choirs, energetic brass bands, and touching Nordic and Celtic fiddlers. In a continent that has been divided by linguistically defined political borders, as this collection reveals, Europe’s musical language is universal.


'High-class singing and playing.' BBC Music Magazine

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Introducing Sukke

Sukke
(Introducing, INTRO103)

Sukke unites three leading members of the European klezmer scene under a single roof. Three individuals, top-flight musicians with deep roots in Yiddish music, who discovered and learned to appreciate one another on the stages of international klezmer and Yiddish festivals, and then decided to focus their diverse talents and backgrounds on a common project: the first European klezmer band. Standards and rarities from the East European instrumental repertoire and original music featuring lyrics by Yiddish poet Michael Wex combine in a unique and evocative sound that is like nothing else in the Yiddish music world.


**** (four stars) ‘Jewish music of inventiveness and quality.' Songlines

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