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Written in fRoots issue
378, Dec 2014
BALTIC CROSSING
The Tune Machine
GO’ GO0614 (2014)
Baltic Crossing shares Finland’s Frigg’s restless exuberance;
what band containing fiddler Esko Järvelä wouldn’t. He and his
cousin, bassist/fiddler Antti Järvelä, are in both bands, but in
Baltic Crossing they’re joined by two Brits – Ian Stephenson (of
KAN and 422) on guitar and melodeon and Andy May on Northumbrian
pipes and piano - and Danish fiddler Kristian Bugge.
So in Baltic Crossing the lead
instrument isn’t always fiddle, and the tunes, trad and written
by band members, come from a wider geography: Finland, Denmark,
, Northumberland and, on this follow-up to their 2010 debut
release, Scotland, Sweden, Italy and Belgium, reflecting their
travels and relationships in the intervening years. For all of
them music is their language, irrepressible players who speak to
one another through their instruments, and the album is a
melodious flow between high energy and delicacy.
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