Ay Portugal, La Compania

We’re pretty lucky in Melbourne to have access to musicians of this calibre. Although we’reabout to lose Siobhan Stagg to the UK for a while, you can hear this Melbourne bornvirtuosic soprano on the latest disc from early music group, La Compania. When listeningto this disc, the word that popped into my head was ‘groovy’. In every track there’s a terrificgroove that gets your toe tapping, even on the more lyrical songs. This is a seriously gooddisc that is well worth repeated listens.