Serious Kitchen CDs make those Kitchen Utensils Rattle

Last week, I ordered the rest of the serious kitchen CDs from their website. In general, I don't prefer to order music from overseas websites, but I made an exception, because this is, IMHO, one of the best Celtic music groups today who smoothly fuse traditional Celtic music with contemporary finesses. They are amazing.

Nick Hennessey is an amazing singer. Vicki Swan is a goddess on the Scottish smallpipes and flute, and Jonny Dyer just gets it all kicking with his guitar playing. I am totally in awe of this band!

You might remember them from MP3.com. Back then they were called Muckle Flugga. As I understand it, a corrupt MP3.com promoter, forced them into all sorts of legal problems and lead to the name change. But considering, I fell in love with their music when I heard them as serious kitchen, that's quite all right for me.

Right now, I'm listening to "On the Mash", their first CD after being renamed. It's all I remember from their MP3s and more.

What I love about serious kitchen is the way the music is recorded. Folk style. Up close and personal. Without all the nauseating effects that every Major Label Celtic band seems to blow over the top.

That's something about contemporary Celtic music scene, from Clannad to Altan, and of course every solo Celt. They seem to be brainwashed into thinking that more reverb makes them better. But the sadder state is that that is what sells.

Our music has largely defied that tradition. Yeah, we don't get the airplay, but the music is true to our sound. I like that. Yeah, a part of me loves the reverb too. But it's exciting to see people raised on heavy compression and overwhelming reverb embrace traditional music, performed like folk music was meant to be.

If you're looking for great Celtic music, don't bother with that Kate Bush, head over to serious kitchen's website