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The space between


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Folk radio UK

d. 4. Oct. 2022

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Danny Neill

d. 4. Oct. 2022

"Featured album of the month" - "The Bonfire Radicals are a proper folk melting pot, a hot, simmering six-piece whose banging and crashing rollercoaster of sound is alive with possibility and thrills. Theirs is a mainly instrumental fusion that flies through traditional reels blown into clarinets and recorders, grounds with intent onto violins and violas and pounds into our heads with a thunderous bass and drum backdrop; it is wholly unpredictable and astonishingly eclectic in the excursions it takes us on. They have a globalist outlook, no local music for local people to be found here; everything from Bulgarian flavoured pipe-organ to British Isles tradition and South African township vibes are just a sample of the many delights on offer ... 'The Space Between' is the sound of a band that are cooking on heat right now; anyone who comes into their orbit is going to be hard pushed not to be swept up by this blazing folk comet".