The Kraken Consort

France's Kraken Consort performs Celtic pieces from Scotland and Ireland in chamber versions influenced by Baroque historical performance and other contemporary trends. The group comprises eight musicians of widely diverging backgrounds. The Kraken Consort was formed in Rennes, France, in 2021. All of its eight members had backgrounds in the Baroque historical performance movement. It was a product of the imaginations of three musicians. Bruno Helstroffer is an in-demand (and self-taught) theorbist who has also played classical and electric guitar, tenor Robert Getchell has w...