COMPOSERS: PaCoRa Trio
LABELS: Hevhetia
ALBUM TITLE: PaCoRa Trio
WORKS: PaCoRa Trio
PERFORMER: PaCoRa Trio: Stano Palúch (violin), Marcel Comendant (cimbalom), Róbert Ragan (bass)
CATALOGUE NO: HV 0014-2-331 (dist. Czech Music Direct)
This intriguing album, from the acoustic trio PaCoRa, has a distinctly Middle European folk sound – despite many of the numbers being New York Tin Pan Alley classics. That’s not entirely surprising as the line-up includes a wailing violin from the Slovakian Stano Palúch and a quick-stepping cimbalom from the young Moldovan Marcel Comendant. Both players are hair-raising soloists. Comendant’s dulcimer-type instrument runs with the Gershwins’ number, ‘Lisa’, like a crazed pianola stuck on double time. Paluch’s take on ‘Pent-Up House’, written by Sonny Rollins and a favourite of Grappelli’s, has wings. ‘Paluch’ is the most fleet fiddle player and bass player Robert Ragan is indefatigable. Garry Booth
PaCoRa Trio
This intriguing album, from the acoustic trio PaCoRa, has a distinctly Middle European folk sound – despite many of the numbers being New York Tin Pan Alley classics. That’s not entirely surprising as the line-up includes a wailing violin from the Slovakian Stano Palúch and a quick-stepping cimbalom from the young Moldovan Marcel Comendant. Both players are hair-raising soloists. Comendant’s dulcimer-type instrument runs with the Gershwins’ number, ‘Lisa’, like a crazed pianola stuck on double time.
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:59 pm