Until the very last two tracks when the improvisation starts to come off as spicy, spunky, and elastically expressive, the music sells itself short by holding the simplistic and one-dimensional tunelets decorated with unnecessary vocals. Energetic, sure--why wouldn't it be? But my kinetic instincts require more from the danceable product--groove, or malleability, maybe.
Hell yeah, I managed to find another killer Balkan album, time to treasure this thing!