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Jesse the K ([personal profile] jesse_the_k) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2018-12-01 12:41 am (UTC)

Trapezoid is a chameleon band that's had at least three lives. It started as a four-dulcimer instrumental group (hence the title). Then it opened up to include two highly-skilled fiddlers and singers, Loiraine Duisit and Freyda Epstein.

That middle period is the one that I adore: the first of their three albums is on YT here
https://youtu.be/82WzNZXkDuQ

I was a folk musician (alto, dulcimer, rhythm guitar) in an earlier life, and I adore the rough-and-ready sounds common to humans making music for their own delight. What mid-Trapezoid managed to do was combine the repertory of trad folk with exquisitely played arrangement and in-tune harmonies.

Thank you! I have so much to say on this topic I feel a post growing.

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