Search - Flook :: Rubai

Time to get Flooked! Refreshingly New Celtic, Fusion Sound!

Michael | Placerville, CA USA | 10/25/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Celtic Music is reincarnated yet again! This quartet is anything but a flook. This is intelligently, creatively arranged music with a tightly designed, interwoven quartet sound from excellent musicians. If you were weaving on a Scottish or Irish loom, you would have strands for flute, whistle, button accordian leads driven by strands for a snappy rhythm guitar and the bouncey beat of irish drum. The result is an incredible range, from a jazz fusion flavor, to Latino, to Celtic Traditional. The Flook sound is the interplay of two teams, a two instrument lead, plus a two instrument guitar and bodhran rhythm. It is a carefully crafted sound with two instrument leads hitting the same notes, as if one instrument. Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen can be said have established a Flook trademark double lead. At other times, they have interwoven harmonies and counterpoints. It is surprising that John Joe Kelley's bodhran (Irish Drum) is carrying the rhythm throughout with enormous versatility. The backside of the drum head is being manipulated to bring the sound up and down to fast paced doublets and triplets. Ed Boyd contributes excellent chord progressions to make this an amazing, pace setting, double rhythm. Their first album, Flatfish, highlights their second album as proof of the primary quartet fully developing their

chemistry. My hope is that Flook stays together and continue in the direction of creative quartet arrangements. This album is exceptionally well reviewed in the United Kingdom, and an undiscovered gem in the United States. If you are a American (Neo)Celtic Music fan, its time to get "flooked.""

So amazing that my 18 yr. old son stole it from me!

Lynmaire | Marietta, GA, USA | 11/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I heard Flook on LiveIreland.com, and immediately wanted to know where to get the music. Well I tried to find the CD while I was in Ireland during the summer of 2003, and again in 2004, all to no avail. I finally ordered it last year directly from their distributor but my son absconded with the CD after hearing it just once; he's a tenor sax player!



If you want to hear truly incredible musicians play music that really defies Celtic or Irish music boundries, get Flook. You'll be hooked!."

My favorite Celtic CD

Steven Burgess | Santa Maria, CA United States | 01/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Flook's Rubai quickly bacame the favorite album in my colleciton. It is so full of imagery, energy, life and (mostly) happiness, it's infectious. Would that all infections were so life-giving!

My two favorites on th disc are "Beehive: The Beehive/Poon Hill/Vladimir's Steamboat" Especially on the third part, I can see myself as a lad, running down the banks of the river, trying to keep up with the steamboat puffing along.

The other is Granny In The Attic. I can almost hear her up there, puttering around, humming or singing a little ditty, then worrying about some object or other, then going back to puttering and singing. It's so sweet, I get a tear or two.

I expect this will quickly become one of your favorites as well."