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"The Gloaming formår at dirke den irske folklore op med en nymodens indiemelankoli og en svagt jazzet såvel som klassisk sensibilitet. På deres andet album - 2 - bliver der spillet på traditionelle folkemusikinstrumenter, men også på flygel. Der synges på engelsk, men især på gælisk. Det er nogle gange benmagre, andre gange rigt sammenvævede udforskninger. En fornemmelse af at finde nye meninger, besjælede opdateringer, genoplivninger af traditionen. Til tider dundrende smukt. En længsel, der rækker ud fra en anden tid og griber dig hårdt om hjertet".

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"The Gloaming's success is hardly a surprise .. The mesmerising interplay between Martin Hayes' fiddle and Dennis Cahill's intuitive rhythmic guitar base has long been irresistible to large audiences above and beyond the folk world, while sean-nos singer Iarla Ó Lionáird's almost spiritual voice has graced many of the world's great stages with Afro Celt Sound System ... But their overriding mastercard - indeed, the joker in the pack - is New York pianist Thomas Bartlett, a left-field musician not previously versed in any folk forms of note. While the orthers do what they do best in their own inimitable ways, Bartlett's occasionally doom-laden tones provide the edge. Bartlett is the stark base which gives their sound its weight, its shimmering power, its majesty and the understated drama which underpins the whole album. His counter-culture stylisations rewrite this type of music, yet also creates the space so that when the great fiddle artisans Hayes and Ó Raghallaigh reallycutloose on a tune, the impact is iven more profound".