‘The music is so good that it doesn't need jazzing up’
Joe Boyd and Andrea Goertler talk sevdah, saze and the Gjirokastër Folk Festival.
One-on-one | Arts & Culture2025.04.07
And I just said, I've got to go there and experience this and see this music.
I remember listening to it for the first time and just going, holy shit, this is incredible stuff.
To me the point about recording this music is not to get a document, but to record this music with the same respect you would record a pop band or a string quartet.
Daniel Petrick
Daniel Petrick is K2.0’s former Senior Editor. He writes about the Balkans.
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