Musik / folkemusik

Unfurl


Anmeldelser (2)


Songlines

2019 April

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Tim Woodall

2019 April

"Top of the world" - "Flora Curzon (violin) and Francesca Ter-Berg (cello) demonstrate a symbiotic musical relationship in this at times remarkable debut album. The duo are part of London's experimental folk and jazz scene,working with artists such as Talvin Singh, Sam Lee & Friends and Portico Quartet. Their own particular jam is music from south-eastern Europe and beyond: from Romania, Greece and Armenia ... A clue to their immersion in this music is the singing on Unfurl, which is in Romanian and Yiddish and sounds idiomatic ... But the string playing here is equally notable ... On "Nubar Nubar" (...), a haunting, embellished cello melody is supported by low plucked lines on the violin, both instruments emerging out of the chimes of rustic bells".


fRoots

2019 Spring

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John Pheby

2019 Spring

"[This] debut release (...) does not disappoint. "London's best-kept secret" really should be more widely known, and even revered for its captivating, quasi-mystical, meditative summoning of landscape, tradition and beauty. This is a lost, Eastern European, other world of fragile and filigreed klezmer, Roma music and much else besides. And the whole is perfectly wrapped in a spectrally pencilled cover of bare trees by Oscar-garlanded "Lord of the Rings"-artist, Alan Lee ... In late night experimentation and resignation, riffs and motifs rapidly circle out of the darkness and into an uneasy electronica calm of elemental weather and desperate melancholy. This approach unearths new and telling details in laments from Transylvania and in Jewish music recorded onto wax cylinder by lost violin and cimbalom maestros in early twentieth-century Russia".