TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted is anchored by the vocals

is anchored by the vocals of songwriter Alena Spanger

It’s violent

self-titled LP: on the A-side

The listener visits ancient civilisations

the album is held together by threads of spirituality

TARTINE DE CLOUS - Compter les dents CD Female-Fronted is anchored by the vocalsliner notes by Alasdair Roberts (musician) : It begins with a shoebox of mysterious provenance, full of recordings from the Vende department on Frances western seaboard: songs of love and war, life and death, played out on land and sea. Songs passed down and sung by ordinary men and women, gracefully delivered with the poetic economy which unites the folk song of all peoples. Next it takes a group of contemporary musicians to make selections from this