Partnering with Dan Trueman(the US professor of music who brokered Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's introduction to the hardanger d'amore fiddle) Laghdú, or A Lessening, is a seamless and unfettered soundscape: at times playful (what what what), at others experimental (tuireamh na n-iolar). With just three traditional tunes morphing between Trueman and Ó Raghallaigh's flighty strings (amid a myriad of original compositions), there's enough space and light here for influences as diverse as baroque to minimalism to breathe free, with the whole refusing to cleave to a single or predictable path. It's telling that the silence between the notes is every bit as important as the notes themselves: surely the work of musicians revelling in the moment: a rare find. irishmusic.net
Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman: Laghdú
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