Fourth Moon unites four nationalities and four musical backgrounds into one creative force to be reckoned with:
"The result feels fresh and often exhilarating. With a nod towards the pioneering spirit of Lau in showing how traditional musicianship and instruments can be used to produce a truly original sound, Fourth Moon take a mixture of tunes, many of them self penned, and put together sets that play around with styles and tempos and deliver the unexpected."
-Edinburgh TradFest
"Whilst there are some beautiful slower passages, it's the fast stuff that bring both band and audience fully to life and gets the pulse racing. These are seriously talented musicians who have found in each other a chance to experiment and extend their own musical experiences. Definitely a band I want to see again."
"Tone and tempo that can call to mind a chamber music group in terms of sound quality and tonal range." - Herald of Scotland
"Tone and tempo that can call to mind a chamber music group in terms of sound quality and tonal range." - Herald of Scotland
Fourth Moon were born in 2013 from the meeting between two French musicians (Jean-Christophe Morel on violin and Jean Damei on guitar) an Austrian (Geza Frank - bagpipes and flutes) and a Scotsman (Mohsen Amini - concertina) on the occasion of the Willie Clancy Festival in Miltown Malbay, Ireland.
In 2016 the line up changes introducing David Lombardi, Italian, on the violin and more recently Andrew Waite, Scottish, on the accordion. The quartet performs successfully in numerous international folk festivals such as the Edinburgh Trad Fest, Le Son Continu Festival, Kilkenny Trad Fest, Celti'Cimes, the Vienna International Accordion Festival, Shepley Spring Festival and goes on tour in Austria, Switzerland and Italy in 2017.
At the end of 2017, the group recorded their first album, "Ellipsis", which received many positive international reviews.
Their music, almost exclusively original, can transport the audience in a calm and contemplative atmosphere that can change at any moment into something exciting, rhythmical and virtuosic.
