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Buy 3 Ravens by Malinky
This is Malinky's second album and it is a mature piece of work. Both Karine Polwart and Steve Byrne have fantastic traditional voices. The first two tracks "Billy Taylor" and "The Lang Road Doon" bear witness to this. Most bands are lucky to have one singer but Malinky can also call on the beautiful Irish voice of Mark Dunlop - his poignant version of "I Dreamed Last Night of my True Love" is a lovely highlight. There's a nice set of reels composed by Leo McCann and a strathspey slip jig and reel written by fiddler Jon Bews. An all-round excellent album.
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..The Scottish traditions will be kept alive by great bands such as Malinky.
Malinky is one of the rising young bands from Scotland. I first heard the band around the great young singer Karine Polwart some years ago when they won the Danny Kyle award at the open stage at Celtic Connection in Glasgow. One year later they had their debut CD on Scotlands finest label - and this is now their second album. It's always great to find young musicians playing acoustic folk music. Although I do love also some harder and more weired stuff, it is great to have the real acoustic stuff played by the young gernetaion of folk musicians. And Malinky are one of the best in Scotland. As you can see from the producer of the album - John Morran, a very fine Scottish singer best known for his work with Deaf Shepherd - Malinky are focused on the songs. 10 out of 13 tracks are songs - and with three great singers (Karine Polwart - who has been singer in the Battlefield band for a good year, before leaving again to focus on Malinky, Steve Byrne and Mark Dunlop) in the band this is obvious and good. Some songs are traditional, but with the time the bands members are becoming increasingly good songwriters, too... I have talked a lot about the songs by now - but although focussing on fine songs, Malinky are also a excellent instrumentalists: They play fiddle, bouzouki, whistle, bodhran, box, guitar, cittern and mandolin. Especially the new member Leo McCann - maybe the finest button box player in Scotland - makes their sound even richer. The Scottish traditions will be kept alive by great bands such as Malinky.
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