Boreal Tordu show a little historical perspective isn't better off dead
author: Sam Pfeifle, Portland Phoenix
I don’t have to write about French heritage to write about this album. Whatever the band have in mind, they’ve managed to create a fun brand of rootsy acoustic music that’s accessible despite/because of its French lyrics (on all but one tune) and features some top-notch musicality and singing.
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Boréal Tordu pull off all these styles and more on their highly likeable, debut
author: Chris Busby, The Bollard
Boréal Tordu is a quartet of Maine musicians playing material commonly called French-Canadian music. In its press materials, the band makes the point that this is really the music of Franco-American culture, the tunes of New England mill towns and coastal communities on both sides of the border -- "Acadian folk, Cajun swing, maritime ballads, crooked fiddle tunes and foot-stomping French dance music." Boréal Tordu pull off all these styles and more on their highly likeable, debut full-length, La Bonne Vie, released earlier this month.
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