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In review--Big Galician drums

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Os Cempés Tentemozo FolMusica Powered by drums and bagpipes--sounds like a marriage of Arabic modes and Celtic marches, Galician Os Cempés Tentemozo offers an uplifting listening experience.   If you are a regular visitor to Whole Music Experience, then you already know about Galician traditional music.   Similar to another Galician musician Uxia, Os Cempés creates a big sound on this recording with 50 traditional musicians bringing their talent to the project. Led by Oscar Fernández, hurdy-gurdies, violins, Galician bagpipes, tambourines, guitars, and the large Galician drum join forces and ignite into popular dances from this region of Spain.   This beautiful album was funded through the generous support of the band’s 740 friends and followers.   And you’ll want to thank these people after giving this CD a listen. The album opens with the rousing Mirandosa and then launches into Pasodoble De Illa which carries some musical reminders of Spain’s Moorish past wi