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Basya Schechter: Queen's Dominion
by John Kelman
Basya Schechter, normally heard as the voice of New Jewish Movement group Pharoah's Daughter, makes a bit of a departure and delivers Queen's Dominion , a more-or-less stripped down instrumental affair that blends music from across the Middle East with, not so surprisingly, a sound that also demonstrates how the music of Persia ultimately travelled north to inform music as far away as Ireland.
Schechter's oud playing is not in the virtuoso realm of players like Anouar Brahem ...
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