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Dreamer´s Circus
Dreamer´s Circus is since some years one of my favourite groups, they represent, one could say, the chamber music variant of folk. A Trio consisting of three extraordinary musicians, Nikolaj Busk, (Piano & Accordion), Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen (violin) and Ale Carr (Mandolin/Cittern).
What they create on stage is a harmony of two music styles, folk and classical music. The pieces are perfectly arranged, the two music styles brought together, as if the belong to each other naturally. The artwork of Dreamers Circus ist to present a complex package of music, but the contact to the audience never get lost. Everything is light and the complexity comes along somehow hidden. And on stage we see three fine guys just having fun with their music.
Plantec
Plantec play traditional tunes from the Bretagne, normally performed at the Fest-noz in the Bretagne. And traditional are two instruments of that band. The Bombarde, played by Odran Plantec like a Oboe and the guitar played by Yannick Plantec. The third „instrument“ are a small keyboard and a MacBook, and the wonderful and crazy guy behind is DjBril (Gabriel N'Dombi)
The tunes sound familiar and the beats and samples of DJBril support them slightly. And then the reels become more intensive, all instruments and the beats swell up slowly and then a shout comes from DJBril´s mouth, the beats get harder while Guitar and Bombarde explode. Suddenly a tidal wave comes frome the stage and it hits you right into your stomach. Folk and Electro seem to be two antipodes of music, but in this special case melt into one harmonic sound.
Irish Mythen
For the two bands described beside it is quite clear what a perfect arrangement is, but what does that mean for a single singer?
I had the great pleasure to talk meanwhile some hours with Irish Mythen by different occasions. I do not have a complete idea of here character, but I know how serious she can be talking about women´s rights; how empathic talking about the Irish history; how sensitive talking about emotions and I have an idea of her great and specific kind of humour. And everything I know of her, I can see, when she performs on stage.
The perfect arrangement she presents to her audience is the harmony between her personality and her art. She sings what she ist and she is what she sings. And by the way she is a great entertainer and the audience loves her for that as much as for her authenticy.