V/A There Where The Avalanche Stops: Music from the Gjirokastra Folk Festival 1988
$20.00
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One of my favorites from this update...Amazing collection from 1988's festival containing over 2000 performers and over 50,000 attendees. Not just some bullshit Folkways LP (no hate on SF...there's just a lot of mediocre bs). This came out on Touch, so you know it's coming from an appreciation of sound first and foremost. Not just a collection of songs, but i feel like its an ambient document of a place and time as well. It's not nor is it meant to be a studio album....but its not a live album either....it meets at the threshold of live and studio music....an Albanian castle in the countryside happens to be the studio and the participants may or may not have known they were being recorded for an album. It just sounds very natural. At least give this one a listen even if you don't need to take it home.
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