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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Belgian/Lithuanian folk duo Merope features guest appearances by Bill Frisell, Shahzad Ismaily and Laraaji.
- Record Label: Stroom
- Genre(s): Folk
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Dec 17, 2024What’s remarkable about the album is how this disquiet slips in amongst some of the most purely beautiful music they’ve ever conjured.
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UncutDec 17, 2024The title, which translates as “breeze”, is a neat metaphor for these eight tracks’ lightness of touch and calm enrichment, whether that’s shivering exquisitely in “Namopi” or tilting at Alice Coltrane’s Kirtan: Turiya Sings with “Rana”, the luminous and trippy, epic closer. [Review of the Year 2024, p.34]
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Dec 17, 2024The most avant garde track, Aglala, based on a folk song about a spruce tree, writhes and rages as if it’s in the grip of a continental storm. Simpler, stripped-down tracks work even better.
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Dec 17, 2024Each piece on Vėjula offers a chance at transcendence, even if only for a small moment. Even the quickest glimpses into the beyond are revelatory. It’s heavy work, but always welcome and necessary.