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Artist: Flook
Website: www.flook.co.uk
Track Name: various
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At the Brunswick Music Festival in 2003 Flook played and blew me away with their sensational talent.

There is a joy and an overwhelming lightness of spirit in their music that sets them apart. Not just techniquely masterful these musicians write much of their own material too.

Album three “Haven” was released in 2005 and coincided with the 10 years that the band have been together. On Haven they are joined by several fine musicians including the Senegalese kora player and percussionist Seckou Keita, 5-string Banjo player Leon Hunt and concertina player Padraig Rynne.

The lineup of the band is Brian Finnegan on flute and whistle, Sarah Allen on flute, whistle and accordion, John Jo Kelly on Bodhran and Ed Boyd on guitars and bouzouki. Together they are magic.

I could wax lyrical and turn the ether purple, but the truth is, this acoustic band rocks.

Of the samples for this album I love the Souter Creek set because it is slow and still exhibits the same characteristics of space and precision that their faster pieces do. About this set – the website says:

Souter Creek
The House of Little Lights – Brian Finnegan
Souter Creek – Aidan O’Rourke

As you may figure from the title, Brian’s waltz was composed for the delightful Kate Rusby. Souter Creek comes from the equally vivid musical imagination of top Scottish fiddler Aidan O’Rourke. Aidan tells us: Souter Creek is the fictitious name which geologist/writer/folklorist Hugh Miller used for his hometown of Cromarty when he included it in his novels. It’s also the best pizza restaurant in the Highlands run by a co-operative which includes my friend Don Coutts. Well worth a visit if you’re anywhere near Cromarty.

jools is a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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