Germany - Berlin Part 2

 We'll start the second part of our visit to Berlin with something a bit more traditional.  Violin duo Trad Töchter (Trad Daughters), consisting of Berlin-born Vivien Zeller and Ursula Suchanek, take their inspiration from the traditional dance music of Northern Germany and give them their own twist with their own compositions and arrangement.  This is a tune called Sturmflut (Storm Surge) from their album Neue Geigenmusik:

Klezmer trio Sukke seems to have been just a one-off collaboration of 3 of Europe's most in-demand klezmer musicians, accordionist Sanne Mörike from the Netherlands, clarinettist Merlin Shepherd from England and bassist Heiko Lehmann from Berlin.  They keep their klezmer sound fairly traditional, but add own compositions.  Here is the opening track from their one and only 2011 album Introducing Sukke called Beygele:

Australian David Stewart Ingleton, American Jason Serious and Chilean Tomás Peralta met in Berlin to form the Americana and Bluegrass band Yonder Boys.  They sometimes give their interpretations of the genre  hints at 1960's psychedelia, hence the title of their 2021 debut album Acid Folk.  Here is the opening track of the album called Rabbit Song:

Now in complete contrast something more calming from Celtic harpist Andy Ozbolt alias Andy Aquarius, who is of German and Croatian descent.  His music is reminiscent of Celtic new age music and could be used as ambient background music at a yoga session, but it holds enough melodic and rhythmic interest to hold your attention.  Here is a song from his 2021 album Chapel called The Phase Has Changed.  Why do I always feel like a Guinness when I see a Celtic harp?

And while we are on harps, Harfenduo Zirla consists of Daniela Heiderich and Merit Zloch playing music on Bohemian hook-harps inspired by old dance tunes with influences of Latin, jazz, rock, pop and world music.  Quite a combination and quite a groovy sound.  They have released one album in 2019 called Abfahrt in 5 Minuten (Departure in 5 minutes), which is only available on CD, and here is a tune by them called Cila:

That's it from Berlin for the time being, next we're heading to Saxony and Lower Saxony for some tunes.  In the meantime you can follow my virtual ramblings on my Tripline map.