Reviews
The opening night of UCC’s FUAIM music festival covered a variety of styles. The concert opened with the Fermoy, Co Cork based Loudest Whisper, best known for the 1974 stage musical and album, The Children of Lir. Their material is invariably soft-centred: even when leader Brian O’Reilly played a blistering guitar solo, it was on a song championing the virtues of family and home. ‘You and I’ is the best of their tracks, a simple but effective lovesong that O’Reilly performed from the heart.
Yurodny are a supergroup of sorts who interpret traditional music from around the world. Led by saxophonist Nick Roth, and featuring such luminaries as cellist Kate Ellis and violinist Cora Venus Lunny, Yurodny played a lively and gleefully eccentric set whose highlight was Lunny’s epic ‘Tangy Decoherence’, an extraordinary composition that pushed the musicians to new heights in their performance.
