Rooftop Sessions

The piano keys fall like drops of water, the violin soars like a gull over 0resund, while the delicate pluck of the cittern string is like a bright spark on the water. This is ethereal modern Nordic folk music that almost washes into modern classical, with a soundscape that is expansive and mesmerising. Rooftop Sessions is the third album from the Danish trio Dreamers' Circus, but the first to be distributed outside Denmark. It offers an exciting glimpse of these talented multi-instrumentalists. Nikolaj Busk plays spellbinding grand piano, alongside instruments including accordion, synthesizers and a spinet (a small harpsichord). Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen plays effortless violin, plus spots on vibraphone and Farfisa organ, among others. String player Ale Carr's axes include a cittern, double bass and even a kokle (a Latvian zither related to the Finnish kantele).

The album is entirely instrumental and runs to a restrained 40 minutes, but it is a breath of musical fresh air, carrying all the simplicity and attention to clarity that defines so much Danish creativity. It is finely weighted, assured modern folk music. While this hip new word is Swedish not Danish, Dreamers' Circus is utterly lagom.