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Article: Various: the Spanish Recordings: Basque Country: Navarre.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
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- January 1, 2005
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VARIOUS The Spanish Recordings: Basque Country: Navarre Rounder 1773
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These days we're used to music from many tiny regions being available to us. We can immerse ourselves in their traditions and their futures. But 50-odd years ago, when Alan Lomax was making his field recordings in Europe, no such luxury existed. Yes, some of the folk music had been collected before, but his recordings across the Atlantic remain as pioneering as the work he and his father did in the U.S. The Basque recordings are ...