This is the Bosnian singer Amira’s fourth album release since 2004’s Rosa. Each release, even 2009’s consolidating Live – recorded at the Jazz Fest Sarajevo 2008 – has advanced her music and the case for her being classed as one of the most spine-tingling voices in contemporary European roots-based music. In her case she taps into sevdalinke – songs of love drawing on Ottoman and Turkish sensibilities and musical roots. Amulette (‘Amulet’) is also her most jazz-tinged recording, in no small part thanks to the Belgrade-born, Paris-based Bojan Z. On ‘Omer Be!e’, for example, his loping piano voicings and melodic resolutions are straight from Nina Simone’s out-of-print Bosnian piano tutor. (Especial praise is due Frank Kaiser’s brilliant piano tuning.) Elsewhere the combination of voice and piano sticks closer to folk voicings. Take the languid Serbian song of desire ‘Zemi Me Zemi’ with its yearning opening statement, “Take me, marry me, why don’t you take me?” If you already have a rapport with Bosnian music, Amulette merits five stars.