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Review: Se Vrativme: Macedonian Dances, by Orkestar Grupa “Pecalbari”

Arle Lommel The experience of listening to Se Vrativme: Macedonian Dances, by Orkestar Grupa “Pecalbari,” was an unexpected burst of pure pleasure for me. I found it to be like discovering an old mixtape from a long-lost love hidden in the glovebox of an old car and popping it in a cassette deck. It is a love note from the past that brings up long forgotten joys. In my case, my first real exposure to non-Scottish bagpipes was about thirty years ago, when someone gave me a bootleg copy of some archival recordings of Macedonian gajda made in the 1960s and 1970s....

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