De Cop i Volta

Brunzit is the Catalan word for both the buzzing of the bees and a drink that’s made from honey and wine. It’s also the name of an elegant and classy band with their roots in traditional folk dance. Their third album sees them slimmed down from a four-piece to a trio, in which Joan Naspleda on flute is joined by Adrià Garcia on violin and Perepau Ximenis on diatonic accordion. It’s an instrumental set, in which the three musicians constantly swap between providing the lead and the rhythmic backing on pieces that switch between folk dances and new compositions inspired by the tradition. The music is lively but often stately and formal, with accordion providing the lead on the sturdy ‘Min Wahi El-Lami’, and then backing riffs on the title-track, and violin dominating the jaunty ‘L’Amistat’, driven on by hand percussion. They may be deliberately limited in their musical range, but Brunzit are worth checking out.