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Written in fRoots issue 331/332, 2011
 

RANNOK
Rannok
GO’ Danish GO1210 (2010)

A fiddle and piano duo album, and on the face of it, however good, there usually wouldn’t be enough to say about it make a full-length review. But this one has a special spark that deserves some stand-alone banner-waving.
     Fiddler Michael Graubæk, of fine Danish combo Zar, and pianist Theis Juul Langlands deliver a beautifully varied, bright-eyed set of shapely trad and original tunes drawing mainly and creatively on the musics of Denmark and Scotland, acutely played and arranged. There’s a swing, skither and wit in their playing and the way the piano works so spiritedly with the fiddle that’s Shetland-like and also somehow evokes the fondly-remembered wry twinkle of Fennig’s All-Stars, the New York state band led by dulcimer player Bill Spence that made two joyous albums in the 1970s and still gigs occasionally. And that’s high praise.

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