Mary Custy (with Stephen Flaherty): After 10.30 (Independent)

There's many fragrances to this clean, precise young Clare fiddler: Martin Hayes' cat's glissando; strange, clicky bow work like…

There's many fragrances to this clean, precise young Clare fiddler: Martin Hayes' cat's glissando; strange, clicky bow work like Donegal-man Dann O'Donnell; wood-stained with tempos and rakes of the bottom-string like Tommy Peoples and other neighbours, Paddy Canny and Joe Ryan. Other accents are from further afield, though she makes no enormous incision into the gavottes or the Mongolian Shepherdess air, where Flaherty's layered guitars escape earth's atmosphere. Flaherty also composed the swoony Celtic-Hispanic title meditation, but can vamp mightily; letting Custy slice internal rhythms and neat ornamental smears from more lived-in tunes; gradually carving her own voice from within the high-quality, wall-to-wall, Clare diddle.