King Chiaullee: Press

Follow the link to read the latest review on our second Album "Reel:ode"

http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_celtic_omni_0204.html (Author - Stephen Hunt)

And here are a few words about our performances during the Lorient Interceltic Festival quite a few years ago now. Feel free to keep reading, but do remember that these have been translated from French by the wonderful technology at Google. If you can speak French and would rather view the original page, click the link next to the review.

http://www.ethnotempos.org/chroniques/king_chiaulee.htm

Every year, the Isle of Man is represented with the Festival interceltic of Lorient by at least an artist or a group. This year, the load fell on KING CHIAULLEE, which had been already illustrated in the same festival two years ago. But one needed of them little which one wonders whether it were about the same group! At the time, KING CHIAULLEE had subjugated us by his singular approach of the Celtic folklore manxois, with rhythmic electric and climatic sequences, unquestionably raising of a progressive step.
And here that our five young fellows returned in a strictly acoustic formula (violins, guitar, mandoline, whistle and bodhran), certainly ready to satisfy the requirements of an inscription as a group "folk"! The surprise was serious for which expected a logical evolution towards a music increasingly more innovative, but it was not inevitably bad. Even without electrical connectors, the music of KING CHIAULLEE misses neither of malicious lucky finds nor of long-lived insolence, without it being one moment question of laughing maliciously of the Celtic tradition. KING CHIAULLEE is in full inside, there draws its inspiration and its quotations (manxoises, but also Irish, Scottish and Breton) but composes its own airs and takes a care particular to avoid as much as possible to trample the plat bands of the neighbor.
After all the same six years of existence and passed by various formations, the group ended up "arranging" first CD ( Baase Cooil Stroo ) with the means of the edge and the places available, as kitchen of so-and-so, the room of Thing or the pub of Thingummy... That is less expensive than a true stay in studio, and that does not prevent making good job and from playing a music folk altogether very personal and sophisticated. The members of the group themselves say they could not play the strictly traditional music, because their beards are not enough long!

Druidix

http://flabonde.free.fr/fil.htm

Whistle, 2 fiddles, guitar, bodhran and double bass.
A group of 5 young people (very young people) musicians of the Island of Man, with the style full with humour, technical audacity and musical freshness. They tangle up ancestral topics (reel, jigs) and personal compositions (including/understanding appreciable rhythmic subtleties: composed measurements, syncopations) supported by an energetic guitar.