"A remarkable emotive, keening, mourning sound is characteristic of south Albanian iso (drone) polyphonic singing (two interacting melodic lines over a drone), of the mountanious region's playing of clarinet and violin, and of saze, the urban folk music of southern Albania (northern Epirus) ... Under Albania's previous isolated regime this very striking, immensely attractive music only occasionally reached the outside world ... This group of saze singers and musicians, some still living in Albania, some in the diaspora (...), were brought together in Tirana in October 2016 by Joe Boyd, Edit Pula and Andrea Goertler, to be recorded by Jerry Boys ... The singers (...) are the edgy-voiced Donika Pecallari, the equally passionate but slightly warmer tones of Adrianna Thanou and the masculine rawness of Robert Tralo. Though the album's subtitle refers to song, the instrumental playing, in song accompaniment or instrumental dance music, is a glorious, emotive, grainy, windingthing,more than matching the singing"