Album: Ljiljana Buttler, Frozen Roses, (Snail Records)

Whether her reputation as "the Billie Holiday of Gypsy music" proves useful or not (and she closes this set with a killer version of "Gloomy Sunday"), Bosnian singer Ljiljana Buttler is one of the great female vocalists of our time, with a deep voice full of woe. A legendary figure in Eastern Europe whose career suffered under the post-communist onslaught of vulgar "turbo-folk", she continues her recent resurgence with this superb acoustic album, backed by an excellent cast of musicians.