"Valčncia band L'Ham De Foc plays songs written almost entirely by fine, strong singer Mara Aranda and multi-instrumentalist Efrén López, with roots on all shores of the Mediterranean and sometimes a border or two inland. López uses an arsenal including just about every south European and Middle Eastern plucked, hit or wheel-bowed stringed instrument, to which are added wind instruments including Eduard Navarro's Galician, Bulgarian and other bagpipes and double-reeds, and a big bunch of bendirs, darabukkas and other hand-percussion. No synths, no samples, no bass, but it's a meaty sound with all the spirit and guts and getting to grips with the power of the instruments that seems to be so often lacking when players on the hushed early-music scene tickle closely related tools of the trade...Despite the alluring textures and contrasts the instruments provide, there's no widdling around – everything leads to structured, memorable melodies, and matching them very naturally are Aranda's lyrics, in Catalan, their vivid, economic turns of phrase rooted in the song-poetry of the Mediterranean margins...." - from the review by Andrew Cronshaw in fRoots