Moishes Bagel 19/2/2012

This was my fourth time for Moishes Bagel (although one of the gigs had been a cut down 2 person version called Box and Fiddle)and it is always fun, full of energy and just a great fusion of sounds from around the world delivered by excellent musicians. There's definitely a lot of balkan influences, exemplified by Greg's expressive fiddle playing and the accordions of Phil and Pete. Guy the percussionist had a very particular set of small drums and snares and fitted in superbly to the overall sound. Phil who writes a lot of the stuff spends a lot of his time at the piano and has a gentle melodic style that seems to glue the bands sound together and they have played together for a while so they are seamlessly together the whole gig. Highlight for me was a beautiful african influenced piece led by Phil on piano called 'Timgad' (A town in Algeria)but anytime Greg was joyously playing balkan stuff on the fiddle was also pretty damn good.