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James Aicaster here, comedian and music fan, and in 2017, I had a breakdown.

I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music from 2016 as I possibly could.

As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm

convinced it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced

or also want to convince each and every single one of you. Plus, a guest every week. I'm going to

send them an album in advance. They're going to come on the podcast. We're going to talk about that album. This week, my guest is Izzy Suti, and we're going to be

talking about the Leonor Boulanger album, Feigen Feigen.

Leonor Boulanger is a band, even though it's named after one of the band members. Leonor Boulanger is a band, even though it's named after one of the band members.

Leonor Boulanger is the guitarist, singer.

She plays a bunch of instruments on this album, actually.

As does everybody.

But also in the band, Jean-Daniel Botter and Laurence Series, I'm going to say.

I'm probably pronouncing that wrong,

but he's doing all the percussion on the album,

and the percussion comes from very unusual places as well.

And that was a big breakthrough

when it came to finding the sound of the album.

Very difficult to describe exactly what genre this is.

It mixes folk music. It also mixes, I guess, elements of maybe Prague. There's a lot of experimental stuff on it. They started off as a French genre called chanson, which I was very unfamiliar with, but basically it's polyphonic French songs of the late medieval and Renaissance times,

that kind of music. And I think you can hear that in their music still. There is that kind of

like Renaissance medieval vibes running all the way through this as well.

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