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It's a snapshot of New York, the photo of TriBeCaStan on the back cover of the duo's CD debut. Milwaukee expatriate John Kruth leans against the railing of a bridge, a bohemian cradling an obscure string instrument from an Eastern land. At his side, Jeff Greene, natty in bow tie and white suit, bows a fiddle of uncertain provenance. With dinars earned on street corners, Kruth and Greene have assembled a like-minded cast of musicians for their recorded journey along a Silk Road of the imagination.
The all-instrumental Strange Cousin is a logical outgrowth of previous Kruth albums on tracks that explore droning tonalities and frisky bazaar beats. No mere exercise in exoticism, the material works as songs, the traditional music of a make-believe land, enriched by intriguing combinations of mandolin and Moldavian kaval, penny whistle and wooden flutes and instruments better known in these parts to ethnomusicologists than anyone else.
By David Luhrssen 04/21/09 >> go there
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