Don Kipper, Seven Sisters
This seven-piece world music collective plays “the traditional music of northeast London,” by which they mean music from the ethnic communities that thrive there. Turkish, Romani, Klezmer, North and West African, Greek and Macedonian music (and probably others) share the stage, each taking moments in the spotlight and then often weaving together in combinations. The band’s third album features a mixture of originals and traditional songs of various heritage. The band displays quite a range, with slow-build epics and chorus-y folk songs featuring the intoxicating vocals of lead singer Dunja Botic, to high every, whirling, up-tempo instrumentals like the record’s climax, “Gambrinus,” that sound remarkably tight for songs in which there is so much going on. Other highlights: “Welcome,” “Min Orkizese”
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