Yurodny Ensemble
Waving across the Oceans
2017English
"At a time when broad swathes of the world are focusing ever inward, music has a funny way of coaxing our gaze outward again. Yurodny embody that outward gaze in every note of their repertoire, and this month, they celebrate their 10th anniversary with the premiere of a new suite, Wave, composed by founder, Nick Roth. Theirs is a coalescing of traditional and contemporary music in shapes that both reassure and challenge the listener, with their rich synthesis of wildly celebratory music and epic songs of loss and longing."
Haivka - fROOTS
2016English
"This is huge and absolutely glorious. The spirit of a Zappa big band, but with Ukrainian traditional music in Ireland. [Haivka]..is more than my thesaurus can come up with enough words to describe. It's wild, it's big, it's constantly changing...passion, loss and agony, intense, massively vivid, moving wonderfulness."
On the Premiere of Onur Turkmen’s Sailing to Byzantium - Jane Harrison
2016English
"The interface between Turkish and European art and folk music proved to be complex, inventive, and surely weighted. I heard the noisy, percussive, mostly un-pitched sound world of avant garde European art music; the sober, curving tones of Turkish classical music; the poignant strains of Irish music"
Yurodny Haivka: hi-tech, avant-garde Balkan folk grooves - The Irish Times
2016English
"Irish outliers Yurodny, led by saxophonist Nick Roth, may be fishing in the turbulent waters of the avant-garde, blending jazz, free improv, Balkan grooves and 20th-century classical harmony, but their nets also reach down to the slower, deeper undercurrents of traditional music."
Les Halles are alive to the Sound of Music - The Irish Times
2014English
“The crowd was huge now, for one thing (the clickers on the door counted an astonishing 7,500 in during the course of the five-hour concert). And most were on their feet by that point, many dancing like dervishes to the main act, a jazz-folk-world-music ensemble called Yurodny. By the time the frenzy ended, a cloud of dust was rising from the college cloisters.”
Evenset - All About Jazz
2013English
"Evenset is surely one of the most significant releases to come out of Ireland in decades."
Downtown Music Gallery NYC
2010English
“One of the best and most adventurous world music discs I've heard in a long while.”
Odd Set - Journal of Music
2009English
"Music sans frontières...a compendium of sensitively arranged, dazzlingly executed pieces drawn from Klezmer, Macedonian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Serbian folk traditions."
Evenset - Journal of Music
2009English
"Whether you think of Yurodny as an Eastern European folk band, a jazz ensemble or a contemporary music group, Evenset’s mission statement is an elegant call to arms."
