Don't get me wrong. I'm a big Fire Records fan but I think this release is something of a misstep, to the extent that I think I could have done better with four or five random drunk people and two bits of wood.
Josephine Foster is an American singer songwriter of some pedigree and has an interest in folk and native song, along with her husband Victor Herrero. That doesn't necessarily mean it was a worthwhile exercise recording these particular performances which, from what I can gather are intended to be some form of Spanish folk music?
Unfortunately it comes across as an attempt to replicate the authentic naivety of traditional folk music which of course, is nigh on an impossible thing to achieve. There isn't a single track on this album I can really get into and most of them have no redeeming features except for some of the appallingly bad recorder playing which is apparently provided by a Japanese free wind enthusiast and the less said about that the better.
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With regard to Fire's decision to release this I think a second opinion was called for but hey, I'm sure someone will like it. On this occasion, sadly, that someone isn't me.
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