Saturday, 4 May 2013

Musical Fusion.

In the absence of sufficient inspiration to make a proper post tonight, I thought I’d offer this exquisite little musical curio.

It would seem the most blatant of oxymorons to describe it as the avant garde of traditional Irish music, and yet I do believe that’s what it is. To my mind it’s avant garde in construction, yet traditional in spirit. And to make it all the more interesting, it’s played on a traditional Norwegian instrument (the Hardanger fiddle, or hardingfele) by a musician of consummate skill and sensitivity who appears to be transported into some other dimension at times during the playing of it.

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