I know this discussion often comes up again & again, but I'm just curious, what recordings are in your top rotation at the moment? Could be inspiration to buy a few new discs....
For me right now:
1. Bothy Band - Old Hag You Have Killed Me
2. Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze
3. Lunasa - Otherworld
4. Altan - Island Angel
5. Culann's Hounds - self-titled
Well I'm trying to limit to 5, a la John Cusack, but it's tough.....
Well, here are five, the first three were gifts for Christmas:
Seamus Quinn and Gary Hastings - Slan le Loch Eirne
various artists - Caise Ceoil (a sampler from Clo Iar-Chonnachta)
John Cunningham - Fair Warning
various artists - A Real Irish Christmas
Labhras O Cadhla - Amhrain o Shliabh gCua
Right now in my car CD player, I have the new Dan Healy & Ciaran O'Reilly (old flute & fiddle guys from Sligo), the new Sliabh Notes (my new favorite), the Paul McGrattan solo CD, Volume 1- Pipering of Willie Clancy, the new Brendan Begley CD, and last but not least the Kane Sisters-Well Tempered Bow.
Any new solo flute CDs out? I would love to find more flute stuff.
Ronan Browne: The Wynd you Know
Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin: The South West Wind
Paddy Keenan: The Na Keen Affair
Various Pipers: The Drones & the Chanters Vol 2
Liam O'Flynn: The Given Note
Tola Custy & Mirrella Murray: Three Sunsets
Apart from the first two, those are all very new (to me) so I'm still going through the play-it-to-death phase. The first two will probably stay in my top favourites list forever, especially The Wynd You Know - beautiful stuff.
The Liam O'Flynn does have its Clannad moments, I'm afraid. The Custy/Murray is very uplifting, but if you're not mad on Breton and Scandinavian tunes in funny timings, the novelty of some of tunes could quickly pall. Ed Boyd is on it too - gorgeous guitarist.
what i'm listening to depends on what happens to make it from the big pile o' cds to my backpack & then into the car. right now, the stuff that's living in the cd player is:
andrea beaton/license to drive 'er (impressive first effort by cape breton fiddler)
wendy macisaac/that's what you get (probably my favorite cape breton fiddler)
kathleen collins/traditional music of ireland (70s recording by sligo/galway fiddler who somebody *really* should coax back into the studio)
johnny b connolly/bridgetown
lunasa/merry sisters of fate
In my car cd player i have Zoe Conway's CD, the new Sliabh notes, ....and they danced all night by North Cregg, Live in Galway by Sharon Shannon, Enda Scahill's "pick it up" and the Dubliners 40 years.
1. Tommy Potts - The Liffey Banks
(I just dug this out to listen to over Christmas, and it's great
cooking music)
2. Noel Hill & Tony Linnane
3. Liam O'Flynn (1992? untitled vinyl)
4. Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn - Traditional Music of Ireland
5. Eoghan O'Sullivan & Gerry Herrington - Sceil Eile(?)
6. We've been on a La Bottine Souriante binge lately. I'm sure
it's just a passing phase.
For solo flute cds, have you tried John Wynne (With Every Breath), or either of Harry Bradley's cds? Possibly not "new"...
I get most of my listening done on the train and then on my walk into work.
Milestone at the Garden--Irish Fiddle Masters of the 78 RPM Era
Traditional Irish Music in America--the East Coast
An Bhabog sa Bhadog--Kevin Crehan
As Long as You're Enjoying Yourself--John Brennan and John McGillian (from the Phila. area)
The learning CD for Peter Cooper's book "The Complete Irish Fiddle Player"
Gzeg, Tommy Potts - 'great cooking music'??! That may come back to haunt you...
I was listening to Noel Hill and Tony Linnane yesterday, and can vouch for that being great wall-painting music. I often go for bluegrass though, when I'm painting and decorating... gives that manic edge to your paint-rollering.
Like Andee, I do a lot of my listening on public transport (London underground) which may partly explain my bias towards pipes; they can cut through the background noise better than fiddle, otherwise Oisin MacDiarmada and Tommy 'cooking' Potts would be in my top hits of the moment.
Why will 'cooking music' come back to haunt me? Are you coming to my house for dinner? You'd be very welcome, although I'd say it's a long ride on the tube...
It's good cooking music because a) when I'm cooking I get to listen to whatever the hell I want, and b) Tommy Potts has a reflective yet whimsical quality that goes well with cutting and mixing and frying and cleaning and so on. A lovely touch, as they say (and I wish they'd say more often about my curries!). He can also be a bit over the top, which sometimes describes my culinary efforts.
Oisin MacDirmada, Brian Fitz and Michael Rooney
Murty Ryan & Siobhan Peoples
Verna Commins & Julie Langan
Seamus Maguire and John Lee
And some great mini disks I got from sessions in galway
Mine are no doubt colored by the limited selection available locally and none are new:
1) Fraser, The Road North, every track ever since I got it when it first came out, I doubt it'll ever drop off my list
2) Bain/Cunningham, The Ruby
3) Also Liz Carroll, Lost in the Loop
4) Waterson Carthy, Some of the tracks make my teeth itch, but I love the fiddle on Light Dragoon, Rags & Tatters, and Orange in Bloom
5) The Paperboys - Postcards, a combination of trad music and God knows what-all, who else would paste the reel "The Coast of Austria" in the middle of a Beatles song as a bridge?
Gzeg, shame the Metropolitan line doesn't extend as far as Alberta, or I'd take you up on the offer - I never decline a curry!
I guess I was thinking of expressions such as 'cooking sherry' - meaning, not really good enough to drink, but you can slosh it into a cake or a sauce or whatever, and nobody will notice the quality. (That's the theory, I can't say I agree with it).
Or 'cooking onions', which I bought once from a UK supermarket, and which turned out to be not-very-good onions, very watery and probably best disguised in a stew.
So I perhaps took slight on Tommy Potts' behalf, to the notion of 'cooking music'! I guess Paddy Keenan and Ronan Browne could take slight at being used as Commuter Music, too... all those years of study and practice, all the rigours of arranging and recording, and then I go and add the sounds of rumbling, screeching tube trains and tannoy announcements to the mix. Nice!
Helen--maybe if I close my eyes tight and wish really hard, then the Philadelphia Broad St. line will somehow hook up with the Metropolitan line of the tube! That would be awesome!!
I'll bring over a batch of my grandmother's recipie chocolate chip cookies that I just baked (with Fiddle Masters of the 78 RPM Era playing in the background)! We'll hang out--oh, and I'll bring along my fiddle as well!
high fidelity
high fidelity
I know this discussion often comes up again & again, but I'm just curious, what recordings are in your top rotation at the moment? Could be inspiration to buy a few new discs....
For me right now:
1. Bothy Band - Old Hag You Have Killed Me
2. Matt Molloy - Heathery Breeze
3. Lunasa - Otherworld
4. Altan - Island Angel
5. Culann's Hounds - self-titled
Well I'm trying to limit to 5, a la John Cusack, but it's tough.....
# Posted on January 2nd 2003 by emily_bmore
Re: high fidelity
Well, here are five, the first three were gifts for Christmas:
Seamus Quinn and Gary Hastings - Slan le Loch Eirne
various artists - Caise Ceoil (a sampler from Clo Iar-Chonnachta)
John Cunningham - Fair Warning
various artists - A Real Irish Christmas
Labhras O Cadhla - Amhrain o Shliabh gCua
Bob
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by bflan59
Re: high fidelity
Right now in my car CD player, I have the new Dan Healy & Ciaran O'Reilly (old flute & fiddle guys from Sligo), the new Sliabh Notes (my new favorite), the Paul McGrattan solo CD, Volume 1- Pipering of Willie Clancy, the new Brendan Begley CD, and last but not least the Kane Sisters-Well Tempered Bow.
Any new solo flute CDs out? I would love to find more flute stuff.
Joyce
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by JMH
Re: high fidelity
These CDs don't get much rest at the moment:
Ronan Browne: The Wynd you Know
Ronan Browne and Peter O'Loughlin: The South West Wind
Paddy Keenan: The Na Keen Affair
Various Pipers: The Drones & the Chanters Vol 2
Liam O'Flynn: The Given Note
Tola Custy & Mirrella Murray: Three Sunsets
Apart from the first two, those are all very new (to me) so I'm still going through the play-it-to-death phase. The first two will probably stay in my top favourites list forever, especially The Wynd You Know - beautiful stuff.
The Liam O'Flynn does have its Clannad moments, I'm afraid. The Custy/Murray is very uplifting, but if you're not mad on Breton and Scandinavian tunes in funny timings, the novelty of some of tunes could quickly pall. Ed Boyd is on it too - gorgeous guitarist.
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by Nell
Re: high fidelity
what i'm listening to depends on what happens to make it from the big pile o' cds to my backpack & then into the car. right now, the stuff that's living in the cd player is:
andrea beaton/license to drive 'er (impressive first effort by cape breton fiddler)
wendy macisaac/that's what you get (probably my favorite cape breton fiddler)
kathleen collins/traditional music of ireland (70s recording by sligo/galway fiddler who somebody *really* should coax back into the studio)
johnny b connolly/bridgetown
lunasa/merry sisters of fate
sarah
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by sarahc
Re: high fidelity
In my car cd player i have Zoe Conway's CD, the new Sliabh notes, ....and they danced all night by North Cregg, Live in Galway by Sharon Shannon, Enda Scahill's "pick it up" and the Dubliners 40 years.
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by Celtic1234
Re: high fidelity
1. Lunasa: self-titled
2. Altan: Best of
3. Liz Carroll : Lost in the Loop
4. Kevin Burke : in Concert
5. Dougie MacLean : Live
They're mostly fiddler's that I listen to, however, Dougie MacLean is such a wonderful song-writer...I definitley have to listen to him!
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by BluFiddle
Re: high fidelity
1. Tommy Potts - The Liffey Banks
(I just dug this out to listen to over Christmas, and it's great
cooking music)
2. Noel Hill & Tony Linnane
3. Liam O'Flynn (1992? untitled vinyl)
4. Frankie Gavin and Alec Finn - Traditional Music of Ireland
5. Eoghan O'Sullivan & Gerry Herrington - Sceil Eile(?)
6. We've been on a La Bottine Souriante binge lately. I'm sure
it's just a passing phase.
For solo flute cds, have you tried John Wynne (With Every Breath), or either of Harry Bradley's cds? Possibly not "new"...
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by Gzeg
Re: high fidelity
I get most of my listening done on the train and then on my walk into work.
Milestone at the Garden--Irish Fiddle Masters of the 78 RPM Era
Traditional Irish Music in America--the East Coast
An Bhabog sa Bhadog--Kevin Crehan
As Long as You're Enjoying Yourself--John Brennan and John McGillian (from the Phila. area)
The learning CD for Peter Cooper's book "The Complete Irish Fiddle Player"
# Posted on January 3rd 2003 by Andee
Re: high fidelity
Jock Tamsons Bairns - may you never lack a scone
Best of Altan
Coel More - Tony McManus
Anthology - La Bouttine Souriante
Bilbao: Kepa Junkera
# Posted on January 4th 2003 by allan21
Re: high fidelity
Gzeg, Tommy Potts - 'great cooking music'??! That may come back to haunt you...
I was listening to Noel Hill and Tony Linnane yesterday, and can vouch for that being great wall-painting music. I often go for bluegrass though, when I'm painting and decorating... gives that manic edge to your paint-rollering.
Like Andee, I do a lot of my listening on public transport (London underground) which may partly explain my bias towards pipes; they can cut through the background noise better than fiddle, otherwise Oisin MacDiarmada and Tommy 'cooking' Potts would be in my top hits of the moment.
# Posted on January 5th 2003 by Nell
Re: high fidelity
Why will 'cooking music' come back to haunt me? Are you coming to my house for dinner? You'd be very welcome, although I'd say it's a long ride on the tube...
It's good cooking music because a) when I'm cooking I get to listen to whatever the hell I want, and b) Tommy Potts has a reflective yet whimsical quality that goes well with cutting and mixing and frying and cleaning and so on. A lovely touch, as they say (and I wish they'd say more often about my curries!). He can also be a bit over the top, which sometimes describes my culinary efforts.
So there.
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by Gzeg
Re: high fidelity
Oisin MacDirmada, Brian Fitz and Michael Rooney
Murty Ryan & Siobhan Peoples
Verna Commins & Julie Langan
Seamus Maguire and John Lee
And some great mini disks I got from sessions in galway
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by bb
Re: high fidelity
Mine are no doubt colored by the limited selection available locally and none are new:
1) Fraser, The Road North, every track ever since I got it when it first came out, I doubt it'll ever drop off my list
2) Bain/Cunningham, The Ruby
3) Also Liz Carroll, Lost in the Loop
4) Waterson Carthy, Some of the tracks make my teeth itch, but I love the fiddle on Light Dragoon, Rags & Tatters, and Orange in Bloom
5) The Paperboys - Postcards, a combination of trad music and God knows what-all, who else would paste the reel "The Coast of Austria" in the middle of a Beatles song as a bridge?
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by ScottC
Re: high fidelity
Gzeg, shame the Metropolitan line doesn't extend as far as Alberta, or I'd take you up on the offer - I never decline a curry!
I guess I was thinking of expressions such as 'cooking sherry' - meaning, not really good enough to drink, but you can slosh it into a cake or a sauce or whatever, and nobody will notice the quality. (That's the theory, I can't say I agree with it).
Or 'cooking onions', which I bought once from a UK supermarket, and which turned out to be not-very-good onions, very watery and probably best disguised in a stew.
So I perhaps took slight on Tommy Potts' behalf, to the notion of 'cooking music'! I guess Paddy Keenan and Ronan Browne could take slight at being used as Commuter Music, too... all those years of study and practice, all the rigours of arranging and recording, and then I go and add the sounds of rumbling, screeching tube trains and tannoy announcements to the mix. Nice!
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by Nell
Re: high fidelity
Helen--maybe if I close my eyes tight and wish really hard, then the Philadelphia Broad St. line will somehow hook up with the Metropolitan line of the tube! That would be awesome!!
I'll bring over a batch of my grandmother's recipie chocolate chip cookies that I just baked (with Fiddle Masters of the 78 RPM Era playing in the background)! We'll hang out--oh, and I'll bring along my fiddle as well!
That's the stuff of dreams for me, anyway....
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by Andee
Re: high fidelity
Hey, it would be good if the music would get absorbed into the food while you were cooking.
"Lovely salad - Noel Hill? And is that a touch of Frankie Gavin in the mashed potatoes, or am I mistaken? Goes really well with the garlic!"
# Posted on January 6th 2003 by Nell