The Crooked Fiddle Band

The Crooked Fiddle Band – ‘The Butcher of Bessarabia’

Always had a soft spot for a good fiddler. I don’t know I guess it’s all the imagery of period films that comes to mind everytime I hear a violin getting ripped in the middle of a world music tune. This song jumped out of the radio when I heard it on Triple J as one of their unsigned finds. On their page they jokingly (or not) described their sound as folk/hardcore/roots music. I suppose it is pretty hardcore for world music. And some of the rhythms do have hard rock qualities, in reverse fashion as how System of a Down infuse elements of Armenian music into their rock songs. It’s not too hard to imagine that maybe, in days gone by Europe, gypsy music like this was the rebel underground movement that cool kids mosh to. Maybe they have their have their equivalent bands of Ramones-like concept bands or Sex-Pistolesque outcasts decried by their government as practicing the devil’s music. Would be an interesting art film festival entry I’d say. Gotta be smoking something good tho.

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