"Anna and Rowan Rheingans currently reside in the south of France and the north of England respectively, having previously lived in Sweden. The music on this album was composed and collected all over Europe, recorded in Wales, and performed on instruments made by their German father in his Peak District workshop ... Musical traditions connect in surprising ways ... The hypnotic French wedding march Peyrat's Cat subtly mutates into the Northumbrian 3/2 hornpipe Our Cat Has Kitted. Their own compositions - Anna's Slängpolska Pour Une Auvergnate and Rowan's Dancing In The Cow Shed are full of unexpected melodic twists and harmonic turns ... And (...) Rowan's songs are quite simply extraordinary ... Hopefully not released too late for the end of the year "best album" polls".
