Ilgi - Kaza Kepa Debesis

Description: Artist: Ilgi / Genre: World Music / Label: Earache / Release Date: 2003

Newest Review: ... same way that English folk music doesn't really stand strong against Irish, Baltic folk doesn't hold a torch to Balkan. It ... more

... was due to that, that I approached this 2004 album by Latvian folk artists Ilgi with extreme caution. Ilgi have a medieval sound but a lot of the songs sound the same, likewise they aren't the best lookers - a group of middle-aged artists labelling themselves post-folk and trying to put Latvian folk music back on the map is an admirable quest but their image does nothing to popularise it, somewhere between trying to hard to be trendy and anorachs. It's been a rather negative review so far but it does have some good a...more

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Ilgi - Kaza Kepa Debesis: Goat music of a different kind (338 words)
by - written on 13/07/09 (Very useful, 12 readings)
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Translated to "The Goat Goes Up Into the Sky", it's fair enough to say that this album was going to be one of those dreamy folk albums that sing about nature. Whilst I have a place for a bit of Russian pagan music if it's nicely blended in to another genre, I generally find that you have to be folk music mad to enjoy the music of the majority of Northern European folk artists. In the same way that English folk music doesn't really stand strong against Irish, Baltic folk doesn't hold a torch to Balkan. It was due to that, that I approached this 2004 album by Latvian folk artists Ilgi with extreme caution. Ilgi have a medieval sound but a lot of the ... Read the complete review