The Copenhagen-based chamber ensemble KOTTOS claims to play “music from a place that never existed”. Consisting of Bjarke Mogensen (piano accordion), Pernille Petersen (various recorders), Josefine Opsahl (cello), and in this recording Christos Farmakis (bouzouki – a Greek guitar-like instrument), the group has arranged folksongs and dances by composers from various parts of the Northern Hemisphere. While their sound is ethnic in a general sense, the juxtaposition of specific sonorities allows KOTTOS to be equally at home in music from Greece, Russia, Hungary, Norway and the...