This review comes from the UK music website NetRythms.co.uk

Ever heard Irish traditional music played by a Dutch folk band? Well, that's just one part of the stock-in-trade of this inventive young five-piece based in the Netherlands, whose lineup sports fiddle, banjo, guitars, double bass and bodhrán/tarabuka (with a soupçon of clarinet). Then again, any record that starts out with Grieg's famous Morning (from the Peer Gynt incidental music) done out as an Irish reel ought to deserve more than a cursory listen - but the rest of the disc (the group's second CD) is actually pretty persuasive too. Harmony Glen may however be thought a slightly misleading name for a band who specialise not in vocal harmony but in well-turned and relaxed (albeit harmonious in their own way) instrumental sets - but in the extensive booklet-note to the song of that name, we learn that their Harmony Glen is more of a mysterious sanctuary. Anyway, the instrumental tracks tend on balance to favour Irish forms, with the odd Swedish tune also finding its way into the mix at times - although several of the individual pieces are compositions by group members (singer/percussionist Vincent Pompe Van Meerdervoort and banjoist/guitarist Sjoerd Van Ravenzwaaij) - and there's more than an occasional dash of klezmer and jazz thrown in for good measure. Having said that, six of the 12 tracks are actually songs rather than instrumentals, and these are an appealing collection overall: three are self-penned (one by Vincent, one by Sjoerd with singer Nienke and one by all three), a rather strange interpretation of Cyril Tawney's Chicken On A Raft and two self-arranged traditionals - Rocking The Cradle and an interestingly unusual take on House Carpenter). There's enough energetic individuality and independent thought in evidence on this album to ensure it's worth seeking out.

David Kidman