A VENUE in South East Cornwall will be hosting In-the-moment improvisers duo The Cider House Rebellion as they preview their fourth album release – Genius Loci 2: The Valley of Iron – in Cornwall this week. Profound and eloquent, epic and haunting, wild, dramatic and occasionally unhinged, The Ciderhouse Rebellion duo specialises in creating music within the moment and will be performing at The Piggery at St Neot, near Liskeard, tomorrow (Wednesday), as well as at The Acorn Theatre in Penzance on Thursday (March 10). Their new album (due out on April 1) draws inspiration from the North York Moors and the remains of the ironstone kilns there.
Master accordionist Murray Grainger and "Paganini of the traditional violin” Adam Summerhayes are able to draw seemingly timeless melodies from thin air. "I became utterly bewitched by the beauty of what Summerhayes and Grainger had created. It could justifiably be described as a folk symphony, possessing cyclical completeness yet creating a form that is, at once, both elemental and pastoral,” writes a reviewer in Fatea Magazine
Since forming in 2020, the duo have kept up a remarkable pace of unrestrained creativity. This has included releasing three full-length albums, producing a weekly radio show and writing the music for a Radio 4 drama. The pair are said to be one of the most exciting live experiences around: "I could almost feel a super power between the two of them,” says another reviewer on musomusoc.com
“A work of startling, immediate beauty,” adds another review in The Strad.