Unique! That was the impression from Quikion when I first heard their fifth album ‘Kaprico’. It featured 14 tracks that embraced a wealth of folk idiom. Stylistically the music of Quikion is what we could easily call adventurous spirit. They present with the accordion that is clearly up front and guitars performing the background that supported role of directing patterns like the strains of waltz, scherzo and polka’s offbeat. There are some elements that captured our imagination and recalled memories such as interlude of ELP’s Cest La Vie in “Happy, Lucky, Goodbye” (track-2) and a medieval music in “Changonetta Tedescha” (track-4) that faintly reminiscent of an air in Al Di Meola’s Beautiful World album. A hallmark of Quikion has been to appreciated the culture and the arts of each clan which has inspired their invention, like a Norwegian traditional music on (track-7) and two Sepharadi’s music on (track-8) & (track-9). Besides, they also featured a kind of ‘Cho’, i.e. the systematic pattern of tone scales in modern Japanese folk music in ”Hyakunin-Cho” (track-11). Not to mention folk-flavoured passages in this album will give us the soundscapes of Irish and East European folkist.

Overall, the works in Kaprico album tend to minimalist and the vocals accompanying the music are sung more subdued in female voice. It’s hard on us to enjoy the album in theater and alfresco. Thus, I suggest you go to left activities, sit back at the corner of a room, then put the CD on. Thereby you will probably find a good progress in traditional music from Quikion. It’s recommended to the folks who are especially interested in the life of troubadours.