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Teyr @ The Bicycle Shop

19/11/15

It’s a busy Bicycle Shop that greets musical three-piece Teyr. Any band that settles down on stage wielding an accordion and a set of uilleann pipes is bound to invite curiosity, and on this blustery East Anglian night the trio offer rich reward to those that have packed in to the basement venue.

Teyr take the light and the dark of folk and run with them both. Tapping into a rich vein of tradition they open with a slow burn of a medley, conjuring a roaming sensation of sound that captures a calm busyness and builds into hustle and bustle and concentrated joy. A shift in tone moves things into a soft, yearning trance, each instrumental heave and flutter carrying power and adding layer upon layer to an evolving and enigmatic narrative. These chaps play like ancient souls in young, charismatic bodies, easy going as they talk about pubs and mountain sheds in between tracks before launching into another lively jig. Authentic, charming, and full of invention, Teyr take something old and keep it compellingly new. With a debut album incoming early new year, they’re not to be missed.