from The Three Things You Can Hear,
released January 21, 2016
Seamus Cater - voice and concertina
with
The International Nothing:
Kai Fagaschinski - clarinet (right)
Michael Thieke - clarinet (left)
This album could easily have been just a less-than-reverential pastiche of its source material, or worse, an ersatz tourist piece that reduced the original Congolese musicians to mere drum-banging curiosities. Mercifully, Peder Mannerfelt has used modern studio technology to reinterpret and expand their extraordinary sound, the result being a remarkably cohesive and dynamic record that demands all the attention you can give it. Brilliant. Nic Brown