9.4
Comment: Dudeldrum is a Celtic folk and medieval folk inspired ensemble from Moscow, Russia. A little bit surprising, isn`t it? However, the result is decent on an issue consisting of a three-quarter hour spreading out over a dozen of notches. The soundscape is intense, more intense than the average Celtic folk album used to be - in addition to droning bagpipes, frantic drumming threads and sparkling fiddle hooks it incorporates the undercurrents of ethnic music from elsewhere off Ireland, used to have flirt with New Age sounds, offers some glimpses of martial-tinged endeavours and a dollop of programmed (tabla) paces and a dollop of electronica either. At times it covers you with brooding veils, at times it used to shatter into the smithereens of melancholy and longingness. Pleasantly surprising indeed.