Jake Walton & Eric Liorzou on 11/04/2007 at folk in the fire palace in Bad Honnef
This time I arrived only 15 minutes late in Bad Honnef, there are no train had been canceled, was even time for the start of the concert in the fire palace, and so everything was in balance.
When I many years ago (1992) of the hurdy-gurdy player Konstanze Kulinsky suggested that their hurdy-gurdy to play sometimes at the Irish session at Boulanger in Tübingen, they thought it was impossible, but the hurdy-gurdy not fit for Irish music. The year before, ie 1991, I had heard on the Irish Folk Festival in Koblenz, Jake Walter, who proved yet know that it still fit. But yes, the music he plays is not a music session, at least not how you play it as normal to Irish sessions.
Now after 16 years I heard him, then a second time, while in the company of Eric Liorzou. Jake comes from Cornwall, Eric from Brittany, consisting of two closely related ethnic regions are separated by the North Sea from each other. And while not in Cornwall Celtic language is more talking, Breton still alive when it would have almost shared the fate of the Cornish. And now they sat as seen in the foyer of the fire castle, Eric of us from left, Jake right, the former with two guitars, including one ten-stringed unique, he imagined, but as mandola with the proper name Nelson, and secondly with a guitar and just said hurdy equipped. Jake was also his vocal cords not only for the announcements and jokes about the hurdy gurdy on (What's the difference between a hurdy-gurdy and a trampoline? If you jump on the trampoline, we shall first of the shoes.) But also to sing, and Although mainly own songs, but also that of William Butler Yeats, Donevan and other, mostly with content, which concerned the nature, the seasons, the West Wind and more or less spiritual references to nature was. I so completely understand the lyrics, but rather would read it again. Accompanied by either both with their guitars or Jake with the hurdy-gurdy, which he used it very sparingly. The melodies seemed to quite elegiac, dreamy.
it went faster in the pure instrumental to the point, especially when combinations of Mandola and hurdy-gurdy. Yes, they were not jigs and reels, but rather Bourees and other French dance melodies, even something in Siebenertakt, including waltz time, but also one or the other Insular Celtic was there. He was able to buzz too, and the Mandola fit with her very very hard to sound very good. It went off right!
Thus, the time was a very special concert at the palace fire, as you would only get once every few years to hear, if at all. As Jake said: He admired the audience, listening as attentively songs that have never heard before and probably never will hear. But then again I had to wait half an hour on the track, and used the time to a crib, then a breakwater in the Rhine to go. The water mirrored the reflection of lights from Bonn in the clouds, gently slid a freighter downstream, while a slipcase for the ride up more work, but had harmoniously fit into this nocturnal mood flow into it. The fit to the music of the two Celts, who echoed this way in me.
Jake Walton:
http://www.jakewaltonmusic.co.uk/
FiF - Folk in Feuerschlößchen:
http://www.folkimfeuerschloesschen.de.vu
MAS
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