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Moishe’s Bagel have earned a strong live reputation largely due to their ability to play exhilarating Balkan and klezmer dance tunes with magical momentum, and you’ll find a great example of that by going straight to the final track of this, their third CD. This is only one dimension of the Edinburgh-based quintet’s work, though, and more patient progress towards track ten will show that they can also be exhilarating through playing frankly great tunes, of which there are many here, and through details such as Greg Lawson’s gorgeously weeping violin on the title track’s outro. Lawson also adds a Scottish dimension, on his New Morning tribute to Martyn Bennett, to an album that contains Moorish influences and hints of Take Five, on the Renaud Garcia-Fons-like Timgad, and features, in no particular order, beautifully uplifting but understated accordion melodies, expansive piano playing and what sounds like the soundtrack to a silent movie cop chase next door to a gloriously yearning Sephardic folk tune. Wholeheartedly recommended.
