When’s the last time you felt like getting all evangelical about Yiddish folk music and chamber music? Granted, it could have been last week or last night but for most of us, it’s been never, at least not until the emergence of this all-too-short platter from Madagascar, a collective that actually hails from Baltimore, MD. Spacious in sound and effortless in its execution the seven-song CD features highlights such as the haunting “I’m So Tired Of Violets (Take Them All Away),” “Our First Communist Psychic Researcher,” or the almost whimsical “Bear Goes Shopping” and the stunningly melancholic “When The Telegram Arrived That She Was Dying.” Forced March - like Madagascar itself - is a fine example of truth and beauty all rolled into one. – Jedd Beaudoin