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If the flautist Juli Deák boasts an impressive tone in the opening moments of the title song to her new album Brisk what becomes truly startling is that her sounds never cease. Already on the hugely propulsive 'Brisk' we get a steady patter of whittling gestures, short breathy pulses and the percussive toing and froing of her fingerings as...

Over the course of what is now three extended plays Natalie Wildgoose has summoned apparitions of the North York Moors - with their purple blooming heather and their hobs and witch hares or mermaids as they reach the cliffs of the coast - while offering a compelling blend of British and American roots traditions. On her debut First Birdsongs...

From the darkness of eternal night, weaving twilight, weaving red through the heat of their voices They say the ancestors were dancing, singing: Desnudito, never let the light come / Desnudito, never let the day arrive Beacause they knew the approaching sunrise brought the mundo en policía (policed world) Attributed to Aymara oral history, these lines accompanied as a kind of preface an...