"The album cover is all heels, fishnets and a shining, blinging Turbo Folk logo ... But this is Montreal-based Briga, fire-brand fiddler and arranger, brilliant student - and dramatic player - of Roma and other Central European traditional music. And so there isn't, of course, much Turbo Folk at all. More accurately, this is a record of Briga's travels with the great Bulgarian violinist Georgi Yanev, who became her mentor into new, intense and wildly celebratory ways of playing ... The album, therefore, has its moments of real energy. "Vihor" offers up a classic Balkan dance, leading incongruously into "Lela", in which Alix Guéry's resolute accordeon accompanies Briga's smudged and playful French vocals on a journey from confused emotion into purity. There's a nod to Yanev with his evocative "Titanic", a dirty groove below skittish violin, while the closest we come to the aforementioned sub-genre is probably "Moje Brat Mitko", in which big, smooth and spacey keyboards areaninvitation to dance somewhere unsophisticated ... An accomplished journey through the music of the Balkans".
