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Evgenios Voulgaris (voice, oud, bouzouki, plitiki lyra, tambour), Apostolos Tsardakas (kanonaki, violin).
A track appeared on our fRoots 38 compilation, and there’s a fuller interview about the band with Dimitris Mystakidis, beginning on page 61 this issue. You can also hear Theodora Athanasiou guesting with Loxandra on this issue’s fRoots 40.
Chet Nuneta
Pangea, the Paris-based Chet Nuneta’s quirky and utterly compelling second album was a revelation when I first heard it. Traditional songs from across the world are the starting point for the band’s inspired arrangements, including material from Africa and China, with Sephardic and Arabic tunes making an appearance.
The four women members of Chet Nuneta – Daphne Couzeau, Valerie Car- dou, Juliette Roussile and Lilia Ruocco – explore traditional vocal techniques from the song’s country of origin and inventively re-work them in their own inimitable style for their voices and the instruments they play. Along with various percussion these include guitar and accordeon. They are joined by Michael Fernandez, also on per- cussion.
Through celebrating ancient tradi- tions and perhaps dying languages they create an extraordinary and modern sound. It is both sparse and rich and huge- ly imaginative. Pangea follows their debut album Ailleurs which also drew on tradi- tional music from all over the globe, including songs from places as far apart as Finland and Madagascar, Mongolia and Mexico. Excellent.
You heard a track on our fRoots 38
compilation. Mama Rosin
Chet Nuneta Mama Rosin
This Cajun punk power trio know how to play. It’s a sound so intertwined with an idea of the place it sprang from, that it’s not surprising to learn that they live by a swamp. It is surprising to discover that their swamp is nowhere near New Orleans, but in the country outside Geneva.
Having fallen in love with the sound of Cajun and zydeco on hearing it played by a band at a festival in France, Swiss- born Cyril Yeterian bought a melodeon from the world’s most renowned Cajun instrument maker Marc Savoy and immersed himself in the music and culture of the Louisiana bayous. Together with his mates Robin Girod (guitar, banjo, vocals and washboard) and Xavier ‘Gerard Guilan’ Bray) on drums, they belt out Cajun and zydeco songs which will have
you up on your feet all night long. The band have released four albums (three on Voodoo Rhythm records) and have record- ed sessions for Radio 2’s Mark Lamarr and Bob Harris.
Their punk aesthetic and rock’n’roll approach ensure uninhibited, authentic and exciting musical performance; from the tradition, not stuck in it. This is the best open-air party music to keep you dancing all through the long balmy summer night.
Mama Rosin were interviewed in
fR323, and a track by them appeared on fRoots 34.
Narasirato
A group of musicians from the Are Are (pron. are-ay) people, Narasarito are usu- ally to be found in the environs of the remote village of Oterama on Mailaita,
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