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Trip Album: In Terra's Keep
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 10
Website: https://trip-music.bandcamp.com/
IN TERRA'S KEEP is the second album from Glasgow traditionally rooted band Trip. The opening seconds of first tune set "The 50 Reels", with Rory Matheson's insistent piano and "Sutherlands" sets up an energy and inventiveness that doesnt let up for a second. "Not A Cloud" continues the instrumental joy with piano, accordion, fiddle, flute and bodhran dancing and flying together. Unrecognisable, underscoring the broad-church that is Folk, is Trip's tender reading of Status Quo's 90s "Blessed Are The Meek". Alasdair MacKenzie's vocal owns the song and finds a sensitiveness in the lyrics. "Octopus Circus" is a beautiful instrumental built around a repetitive minimalist piano part with the other players joining in. The second tune "Octopus" is knotty and contrasts the first perfectly.
There is real cinematic sparkle in "Tune For Roan" and "An Ghrain Ar Bhinn Ghulbain", a pair of tunes inspired by the rising of the sun over Sligo Mountain. Within the six minutes of music there is some wonderful interplay between Craig Baxter's Bodhran and Tiernan Courell's flute and fine jazzh piano from Rory. "Sadness Passed" and "Hit The Road" are a marriage between poignant lyrics from MacKenzie and his guitar, and powerful percussive playing by Trip. Final instrumental set "August Ascent" is playful with moments of both tenderness and passion from Isla Callister's fiddle and Michael Biggins' accordion.
Trip deliver energy and a sense of joy in their playing, contrasting this with a tenderness in the more reflective songs. As individual players they continue to delight as they did on 2022's A DROP FOR NEPTUNE while delivering a rich and exciting band sound.
Marc Higgins
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