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Duo combine space with trad

AT FIRST, it seems hard to comprehend how Géza Frank and Jean Damei’s new album Event Horizon can incorporate traditional Irish and Scottish music with cosmological and astrophysical themes such as promixa centauri, photon wave, pulsar and meteor showers, writes Aidan Donaghy.

Upon listening to the album, the eclectic sound of modern day house music is softly mixed in with uilleann pipes, whistles, flutes and the fiddle, which goes hand in hand with the space exploration theme on the album cover.

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