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Title: Yo-Yo in the Mountains with Mark, and both are lost
Review: The refreshing soprano of Alison Krauss brightens an otherwise dark and moody selection of antique airs. Ma, Meyer & O'Connor basically are just noodling around the supposed melody line with a vast array of odd-tempo and unrelated: to each other; and dissonance; from each other. It's not just a noise competition; it's really 2 or 3 superb musicians trying to match their skills to this new enviroment: Hill Country & Irish-based folk works. Doesn't work. Result is harsh, grating, abrasive lines and step-ins variously mixed or matched, but in no way folk... or, even harmonic. Serves serious students of musical art forms, but not the listener who grew up steeped in the tradition of the Hills they supposedly arranged their odd-balled concantinations.
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