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Fran and Flora: Precious Collection review – strings, shimmer and siren song whip up a desirous mood
This spirited adventure in the avant garde is as experimental as it is accessible, delving into hot-blooded Sirba and Transylvanian epics
Wordless harmonies create immediate, even poppy effects on the Nign and Hold Me Close, which should interest fans of shimmery, alternative groups like Blonde Redhead and Stealing Sheep; they’re even Radio 2-friendly on the gorgeous Fishelekh Gefinen – To Catch a Fish, by Yiddish poet Aliza Greenblatt. Other highlights include the ecstatically joyful Greek folk tune Kick Up In 9 and a terror-inducing Yikhes – Lineage, in which they somehow make a violin sound like the soft wail of a distant ship’s siren. Toby Hay ’s mid-Wales cottage industry of gorgeous, largely instrumental folk music reaches its highest peak yet with After a Pause (Cambrian), a record he made himself over three summer days with double bassist Aidan Thorne.
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