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Zoé Basha: Gamble review | Jude Rogers's folk album of the month
The Dublin-based French-American singer and guitarist’s heart is in the Appalachian mountains – but her songs swim from country to blues and French chanson
In her version of the ballad Three Little Babes (with nyckelharpa player Aina Tulier and singer Anna Mieke, with whom she sings in three-part-harmony group Rufous Nightjar), the tale of death and dreams bristles with hunger of horror. The best are Dublin Street Corners, a great patchwork of failed dreams in a booze-soaked city (“I’m the one you lie next to in bed / When you’re too tired to try, or so’s you said”) and the chanson-flavoured Traveling Shoes, full of the nonchalant ruminating of a fly-by-night lover. Nordic duo Maija Kauhanen and Johannes Geworkian Hellman bring together the hurdy-gurdy, kantele (a plucked Baltic psaltery) and sympathetic synthesisers on Migrating (Gammalthea), an album mirroring the passages of birds through the seasons.
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