Andy Irvine, the Balkans, and the Long Road to ‘EastWind’
Irish musician Andy Irvine worked hard to learn the challenging musical vocabulary of Balkan folk music, while his colleagues feared being invited to play the music with him.
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Sound Portraits from Bulgaria: A Journey to a Vanished World, 1966-1979
Smithsonian Folkways chronicles 50 years of folk recordings on Sound Portraits from Bulgaria. It is a truly essential addition to any global folk collection.
‘The Lesson’ Tries to Find Justice in an Apathetic System
The Lesson falls short of excellence, but it still manages to be an impressively competent tale of the trials of economic desolation in a post-Soviet state.