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Sep 18 06:10 UTC 2001

I spent some time this evening translating a short blurb from the liner notes
of Susana Seivane's second CD, just released in Spain. Any grammatical errors
are all mine, a result of my rusty Spanish.

From the Commentary - Boa Music presents ALMA DE BUXO, the anticipated new
disc of gaitera Susana Seivane, in which the traditional is joined with the
contemporary, and which confirms her solidity and talent as one of the stars
of international folk. The title of of this album, ALMA DE BUXO, translates
to
"Core/Soul of boxwood", the material which the punteiros [literally,
"chiselers"] of the gaitas put through a slow and prolonged process of drying,
in the factory that Seivane family runs in Cambre (A Coruna), a process that
can take up to several years and that begins with the cutting of this shrub
in
certain definite lunar phases. In a similar manner, Susana Seivane also has
taken her time in the processing of the compositions that conform her new
disc. The previous and only producer of her first recording, Rodrigo Romanm,
one of the founders of Milladoiro, collaborates again, although the new
development is that his own instrumentalist has become totally involved in
this second production, with the aid of Brais Maceiras and Xurxo Churches,
components of the band that accompanies to the gaitera all over Europe.
Altogether six musicians support this beautiful Gallega in this second
delivery:  Beto Niebla (percussion), Brais Maceiras (accordeon), Carlos Freire
(percussion), Ivan Laxe (electric bass), Xavier Gastaqaduy
(acoustic guitar) y Xurxo Iglesias (bouzouki).