Thanasis Kafetzis

Kolida Babo: Spirits Of Mauronoros

by Chris May
September 7, 2024

Here is some strange and magical music. A synthesis of global electro-acoustic modal jazz and the hermetic folk music of Epirus, a remote mountain region in northwestern Greece. It is played on traditional Balkan instruments--duduk and kaval double-reed woodwinds, qanun zither and gaida bagpipes--together with soprano and baritone saxophones and Moog, Roland and Farfisa synths and keyboards. The music is simultaneously ancient and modern, roots and futuristic. Generis does not come more sui than this. Kolida Babo ...