Now that the wonderful Banoffi are no more (boo hoo!), the trio's charismatic Mossy has partly forsaken his more manic leapings and settled down to make some more music in the magical, quiet, thoughtful vein. In David's own words, a quest for simplicity and a place with a natural respect for music” led naturally to a concert, which took place in April last year at St. Thomas's Church, Glaisdale (near Whitby). Luckily, the concert was surreptitiously captured on minidisc, and this CD presents a digitally edited record of just over two-thirds of it. The hushed intensity and spirit of the place is faithfully rendered, with musician, music and building at one with one another that much can be felt through the recording, and it must have been a very special experience indeed for the audience too. Since it was a purely solo concert, the vast majority of the material performed is of David's own composition, predominantly gentle in character, gentle with a strength of purpose and character thats seriously beguiling (if you recall the floaty, drifting side of Banoffi's music you'll know what to expect). And yet too, David's voice lulls you into a reverie yet has the power to grip you with his narrative skill, as on Papuzsa, the tale of a Romani girl who, remaining true to her creative impulses, “betrayed” her own culture. As David says, some songs have a narrative and some just are. Most of the rest of the songs here just are, and all the better for that. The concert also provided a perfect opportunity for David to première his recently-acquired mastery of the Mongolian technique of overtone singing (whereby a sung note is split, or refracted, into its constituent harmonic frequencies (since you asked!), and it proves a hypnotic and beautiful addition to his already impressive panoply of skills. David accompanies himself on bouzouki and guitars, switching to fiddle for two lively goat-swinging sets of jigs (including a couple written for Banoffi but never recorded, and the celebrated Cape Breton set that provided some unforgettable stomping moments in Banoffi days), and taking up the viola for a lovely pair of waltzes. Coming as it does from an artist whose sincerity and musicianship are unquestioned whose belief in his own creativity is modest yet unswerving, this open, honest and truly lovely CD is more than a memento, much more.  David Kidman Tykes News, Folk Roundabout, Stirrings