Another Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival discovery. DOSCA are an energetic folk act from Scotland. Their music mixes Scottish and Irish folk, as well as a hint of jazz and a get up and dance beat. With bagpipes, flute, fiddle, guitar, bass and drums there is a hint of rock but the effect is more high energy folk.
Their album Meridian features ten tracks. Eight of the ten are instrumental. Accidental Thumb, which may or may not be a facebook reference, builds slowly until about the halfway mark before bridging into a lively reel. This track is followed by, Pound A Week Rise (Ed Pickford), the first of the two tracks to feature singing. Two For Joy slows things down to Strathspey level but is quite simply a hope filled gift to the ears. Oblique is another toe tapper and leads into the second vocal track Arthur McBride (traditional) which is performed with the modern listener in mind but with all the respect to traditional rendering you could ask for. Joe Armstrong who lends his voice to these two track (his talents being deployed on the flute on the rest of the album) has a rich folky timbre that suits these two songs perfectly. The album is rounded out fantastically by the last track Storm.
The album is available on all the usual places online (or you can just listen to it right here below.)
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