Your cultural idiom is utterly wrong. The performer has been working at Gooik, which is the Belgian equivalent of Cecil Sharp House, and is performing in a style identifiable as within local tradition, which makes him pretty authentic to the best current state of the art knowledge.
Try looking for the origins of Flamenco and current Flemish performance styles to discover what Van Soest was actually on about, and that just might give you something performable.
very beautiful on this "hommel" - or is it a "vlier"?
But please, remember this is DANCE music... There is even a dance which might fit, the French called it "branle gay" or "branle de Poitou", any Renaissance dancer can show you, and you'll see, you'd have to play it totally differently, for them to enjoy dancing to it...
@peter1473
Your cultural idiom is utterly wrong. The performer has been working at Gooik, which is the Belgian equivalent of Cecil Sharp House, and is performing in a style identifiable as within local tradition, which makes him pretty authentic to the best current state of the art knowledge.
Try looking for the origins of Flamenco and current Flemish performance styles to discover what Van Soest was actually on about, and that just might give you something performable.
JelMain 1 week ago
Very appropriate, a tune from Hoboken, played on an instrument from Gooik. That's about 50 miles apart.
JelMain 1 week ago
very beautiful on this "hommel" - or is it a "vlier"?
But please, remember this is DANCE music... There is even a dance which might fit, the French called it "branle gay" or "branle de Poitou", any Renaissance dancer can show you, and you'll see, you'd have to play it totally differently, for them to enjoy dancing to it...
peter1473 4 months ago
Wonderful stuff. Thanks for sharing.
aakermit 7 months ago
...gefällt mir sehr gut...
MrMichaelmusicman 11 months ago
it almost looks like a hurdy-gurdy
wwmadi 1 year ago
That's my bag. Very good piece.
Merci Ulricus
richardcpotvin 2 years ago
Ah, the grandfather of the appalachian "mountain dulcimer". Thanks for posting, ulricus1.
polarityrecords 2 years ago