Live at the NCH

"I am perennially wary of using the word 'fusion' when describing music as it conjures images of endless prog-rock noodling or unlistenable atonal jazz odysseys. It's a definition that has been used about The Gloaming's music before, but what I hear now through freshened ears is a vigorous hybrid in which the traditional and the innovative are brought together in sympathetic complement. Forget the definitions. This is music deeply rooted in its time and in its space yet played without borders - and it's all the better for it".

Læs anmeldelse

"They really are a band of consummate sublimity. This live album was recorded at Dublin's National Concert Hall, where they've broken all records with what amounts to a 24-date residency; but such is the purity of the recording quality, it cmes as a shock to hear the burst of applause at the end of each track ... As ever, Martin Hayes is the linchpin, almost imperceptibly weaving his dexterous fiddle bow with the unique guile and subtlety that inevitably casts a magic spell over his listeners, but it's the American Thomas Bartlett's unconventional, free-form piano arrangements that mark The Gloaming as something beyond anything we've heard before in this field ... Some may be disappointed because it contains no fresh material (...), but they are such instinctive musicians the tunes invariably flourish in a far more vibrant fashion than they do in the studio. And for anybody who hasn't encountered them before, this should be a jaw-dropping introduction".

5/5.