The Crooked Fiddle Band
During their recent visit to UK soil, The Crooked Fiddle Band were kind enough to stop by in Manchester to film this pumping session at Fuel Cafe.
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The Crooked Fiddle Band
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010, 9:38 amAustralian Chainsaw-folk vigilantes, The Crooked Fiddle Band deliver a no-holds-barred mash-up of gypsy passion, bluegrass swampstompers and near metal mayhem. The Sydney based group’s debut Ep was selected as the feature album on Radio National’s The Daily Planet and has garnered regular airplay on Triple J, community radio worldwide and US college radio. World music mag Global Rhythm has recently featured the band on their Aug-Sept 2008 cover CD.
The group’s primarily instrumental tunes have led their recordings to be used across various soundtrack projects – films at global film festivals, a documentary on artistic roller-skating, and perhaps the ultimate in unexpected applications: accompanying the Australian Synchronised Swimming Duet team in their Olympic qualifying event in Switzerland.
The Crooked Fiddle Band have recently completed their Second EP, Rise, which solidifies the band’s style – Bulgarian melodies sung with Native American lyrics; Romanian tunes thrashed to their modern limits, with the rhythm section honing their blast beats and trademark acoustic riffery. New directions are explored via a rip-roaring bluegrass workout and a tango that pans back to a dancefloor melodrama. “We mutate world music to create our own sound” says guitarist Gordon Wallace “it’s like a pig with sharks teeth, fat with plenty of bite.”
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