I've been listening to The Brass Fiddle: traditional fiddle music from Donegal (Vincent Campbell, Con Cassidy, James Byrne and Francie Byrne) a lot, and I've been listening to Liz Carroll's newest, Lake Effect.
I know SPeak posted Lake Effect, I suppose I'd better go see if someone has posted The Brass Fiddle...
Andy Irvine and Paul Brady (upon suggestion from Paul Brady thread - enjoying it, though I wish I had a clearer copy)
Celtophile (comp) Flute and Whistle (Kevin Crawford, Joanie Madden, Matt Molloy and Sean Keane, Joe Burke, Seamus Egan, Kornog, Frankie Kennedy and Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, Jack Coen, Deanta, Jerry O'Sullivan)
2 CDs I picked up in the used section, The Lennon Family, Dance of theHoney Bees (Duchas Ceoil) and Boston College Irish Studies Program Celebrates Gaelic Roots. This latter one is a 2CD set with Sean Potts, Liz Carroll and a ton of other ITM players.
i've been listening to 'lead the knave' by nollaig casey & arty mcglynn; a lot of cape breton fiddling; and to two cd's of fiddlers from prince edward island. yow!
John Doherty, the celebrated recordings, Paddy Canny, Jimmy O'Brien-Moran, Sean Reids Favourite, Tommy Keane and Jacqueline McCarthy, the wind among the reeds, Mick O'Brien and some old recordings of Tommy Reck from 1960 as well as some Solas, Dick Gaughan, Johnny B Connolly. I have been listening to some classes i recorded that I attended at Scoil Acla as well quite a lot, hoping that some of it will sink in.
I'm stuck on "Paddy in the Smoke", with an occasional Kevin Burke 'Sweeny's Dream' and Paddy Canny cd play through. Paddy in the Smoke has been in my CD player for weeks now, just can't get enough.
Someone in the "woodenflute" email list had an old tape with some old-timers playing. Someone copied each track into an MP3, then everybody had a great time trying to identify the players and the tunes.
Thanks Glauber -- I can't seem to get the links to work, so I wrote bil to see what was up with them. Looks really cool! Such a small world. I'm constantly running into bil wherever I go on the Net when it comes to ITM.
Speaking of flute geezers, i just got my copy of the "Wooden Flute Obssession" CDs (posted them in recordings, already). This is Keving Krell's monumental compilation of every important flute player under the sky. I need to work now, but i'll post more later.
The Wooden Flute Obsession CD is amazing. Anyone who's interested in (playing or listening to) Irish flute should go buy this CD yesterday! Just being able to hear all these flute players with their different styles is an incredible thing. The track selection is excellent, there's no wasted material here. I'll probably be listening to this one nonstop for the next few weeks.
I know Kevin put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into putting it together. It took him about twice as long to get everything together, he says, than he thought it would. He certainly didn't do it for money!
it's been Catherine McEvoy's solo CD for me of late. Just posted it in the recordings section. There is one tune in particular on this CD that has been catapulted onto the very tip top of my all-time favorite tunes list. It's a jig attributed to Dermot Grogan. I'll post it once i figure out exactly how it goes...
gee glauber, like i need to be any *more* obsessed? ;)
Makes me wonder if the banjo as often depicted as an instrument of US hill-billies (Deliverance, et al) was brought over to the US by the Irish, and therefore if many 'hill-billies' (scuse the stereotype) are of Irish descent...
No doubt someone will set me straight (though not too angrily please... ).
ceol aduaidh (mairead ni mhaonaigh&frankie kennedy) - i'm over in belfast on holiday and my mate niall has this in his car.there's some good tunes on this one!
off to sligo and donegal in a couple of days so may pick up something else by then.
before i left it was mainly the frankie gavin/alec finn album.
I have a confession to make.
I'm listening to 'A Highland Fiddler', The Clunes Collection of Donald Riddell, with Duncan Chisholm, Iain MacFarlane & the ubiquitous Bruce MacGregor ( thanks to Keith Scammell ) It is super playing, terrific tunes, & a magnificent tribute to Donald Riddell.
Does this confession mean I'm blackballed, or sent to coventry?
Aw heck, I'd hate to be labelled a purist, & anyway.
Fact is, most of the great old Irish reels, started off in Scotland anyway, aint that right weescottishfiddler?
Oops, I see another discussion looming!
OK. In an effort to redeem myself, I will tell you that 'Slan le Loch Eirne' spends a lot of time on my turntable.
This wonderful recording by three masterly musicians, Seamus Quinn, Gary Hastings, & Ciaran Curran, would have spawned the phrase ' The Pure Drop', if it hadn't already been coined.
If you haven't heard this yet, treat yourself.
Forget, that synthetic, high tech. clean, glossy pap, that often passes for a lot of the Irish Traditional Music you'll hear on many new recordings these days. It's all technically brilliant, often superbly talented young players, with loads of funky, groovy new syncopated tunes, & arrangements, but has anyone else found that a lot of that stuff loses it's charm after a couple of listens, like it's too gimicky or something for it's own good. In reality, at the back of all the razzle, there's no real heart & soul to a lot of these modern tunes, & recordings. I would be very surprised if many of them stand the test of time.
Right, with that off my chest, it's back to the recording in hand. The music on this CD is at the centre of the universe for anyone who likes the real article. Deceptively simple arrangements, of wonderful tunes, played with true feeling, from the heart, from three giants of musicians, who are grown up enough to have learned that it's the Xmas present that's important, not the wrapping paper - that goes in the bin!!
For anyone not convinced, go listen to that old recording of Joe Cooley's, & then stick on, well, no names, but you all know the sort of modern recording I'm thinking about. If that doesn't convince you, then maybe you should really be listening to 'House' or 'Rave' music, or maybe I'm just getting old?
If I am getting old however, then please let me grow old gracefully with recordings like this one. Put this on, relax, close your eyes & you can almost smell the Peat in the hearth, & see the rolling hills & fields out the window.
Put some modern recordings on, close your eyes, & you'll probably see a flashing disco ball in the ceiling!
By the way, congratulations to Zina from this new kid on the block. You certainly know how to stimulate debate, 25 responses so far for this one! I guess your an old hand at this. Do you know what the record is so far, & who holds it? Does anybody know? Does anybody care? Does it really matter anyway?
Oh, this is a small thread compared to some of our best, Ptarmigan. Do a search on just about any subject (I would suggest perhaps Kerry's "Dreary Plateau" thread for a starter) and you'll find us droning on, laughing hysterically, and arguing vociferously about it.
I hadn't gone back to look at any of our old threads for quite some time until somebody (Volker? Glauber?) posted a link and I went back to look. There's some truly fab threads and posts back there -- well worth the look.
i got some cds of donegal fiddle playing from rab cherry today(well,yesterday as it's the small hours now) but i won't be able to listen to them until i'm back although i heard a bit of one them a few days ago.
there's no backing,just the fiddle or two fiddles doing their stuff - rather like that 'star above the garter' album.
there are 3 cds out at the moment but more are in the pipeline for those of you who like the donegal styles.
Yes, bigdave, I saw them up in Glen, Donegal, a couple of weeks ago - don't you just love it when you can place name drop! Anyway, you started it by dropping Rab Cherry.
I bought the first one, & it is raw Fiddling OK. You get 24 tracks of solo Fiddling, recorded live in Glen, warts & all, by eight terrific players. You can almost hear the beads of sweat running down their brows as these guys played in the wee village hall. They all have Donegal styles, but it's fascinating to hear how very different their individual styles really are. I personally love listening to the tracks by Mick Brown. Great opportunity to clearly hear, ornamentation, & variations ( Zina ), uncluttered by backing instruments, just for a wee change you understand. But seriously, I would highly recommend these CDs, especially to any Fiddler, whether your a fan of the Donegal style or not. If you love Fiddling, you can't help but be impressed by these.
I'll check, & if No.1 isn't posted here, I'll get right on it.
Try these two CDs - admittedly one is more Scottish than Irish and the other does have a few Scottish threads:
Last Leaves by Malinky (that's the Scottish one) and If Ida Been Here Ida been there by Craobh Rua - if you ever get the chance to see the latter band live then go - they have one of the best stage acts ever - the guys on banjo and pipes are quite a double act.
What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Just idle curiousity.
I've been listening to The Brass Fiddle: traditional fiddle music from Donegal (Vincent Campbell, Con Cassidy, James Byrne and Francie Byrne) a lot, and I've been listening to Liz Carroll's newest, Lake Effect.
I know SPeak posted Lake Effect, I suppose I'd better go see if someone has posted The Brass Fiddle...
Zina
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Andy Irvine and Paul Brady (upon suggestion from Paul Brady thread - enjoying it, though I wish I had a clearer copy)
Celtophile (comp) Flute and Whistle (Kevin Crawford, Joanie Madden, Matt Molloy and Sean Keane, Joe Burke, Seamus Egan, Kornog, Frankie Kennedy and Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh, Jack Coen, Deanta, Jerry O'Sullivan)
Altan - Blue Idol
Colleen
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by cdavick
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
2 CDs I picked up in the used section, The Lennon Family, Dance of theHoney Bees (Duchas Ceoil) and Boston College Irish Studies Program Celebrates Gaelic Roots. This latter one is a 2CD set with Sean Potts, Liz Carroll and a ton of other ITM players.
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by pearse
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
i've been listening to 'lead the knave' by nollaig casey & arty mcglynn; a lot of cape breton fiddling; and to two cd's of fiddlers from prince edward island. yow!
sarah
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by eleyne
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
John Doherty, the celebrated recordings, Paddy Canny, Jimmy O'Brien-Moran, Sean Reids Favourite, Tommy Keane and Jacqueline McCarthy, the wind among the reeds, Mick O'Brien and some old recordings of Tommy Reck from 1960 as well as some Solas, Dick Gaughan, Johnny B Connolly. I have been listening to some classes i recorded that I attended at Scoil Acla as well quite a lot, hoping that some of it will sink in.
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by geb
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Harry Bradley: As I carelessly did stray...
Geraldine Cotter: Piano+
Kevin Crehan: An Babog sa Badog hog hog hog
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by glauber
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Well, glauber, you'll pleased to hear that Harry Bradley is now a member of The Session:
http://www.thesession.org/members/display.php/3606
# Posted on August 24th 2002 by Jeremy
Harry Bradley
That's great news! Welcome, Harry!
glauber
# Posted on August 25th 2002 by glauber
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
"O mighty fidgety digited one"?! Heh. A new title for The Benevolent Dictator.
Zina
# Posted on August 25th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
I'm stuck on "Paddy in the Smoke", with an occasional Kevin Burke 'Sweeny's Dream' and Paddy Canny cd play through. Paddy in the Smoke has been in my CD player for weeks now, just can't get enough.
# Posted on August 25th 2002 by chicagofiddler
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Noel Hill and Tony McMahon - In Knocknagree
Noel Hill, Tony McMahon and Iarla Leonard - Music of Dreams
Gavin Whelan
The Flute Geezers mp3 album
Peace,
Chris
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by ChrisLaughlin
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
The Flute Geezers? What's that one and where do you get it, Chris?
zls
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Zina Lee
Geezers
Zina,
i believe it's this:
http://www.lafferty.ca/music/flute-geezers/
Someone in the "woodenflute" email list had an old tape with some old-timers playing. Someone copied each track into an MP3, then everybody had a great time trying to identify the players and the tunes.
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by glauber
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Thanks Glauber -- I can't seem to get the links to work, so I wrote bil to see what was up with them. Looks really cool! Such a small world. I'm constantly running into bil wherever I go on the Net when it comes to ITM.
zls
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Speaking of flute geezers, i just got my copy of the "Wooden Flute Obssession" CDs (posted them in recordings, already). This is Keving Krell's monumental compilation of every important flute player under the sky. I need to work now, but i'll post more later.
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by glauber
Flute Obsession
The Wooden Flute Obsession CD is amazing. Anyone who's interested in (playing or listening to) Irish flute should go buy this CD yesterday! Just being able to hear all these flute players with their different styles is an incredible thing. The track selection is excellent, there's no wasted material here. I'll probably be listening to this one nonstop for the next few weeks.
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by glauber
Flute Obsession
I know Kevin put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into putting it together. It took him about twice as long to get everything together, he says, than he thought it would. He certainly didn't do it for money!
Zina
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
I just got four in the mail from Ossian USA:
PADDY IN THE SMOKE: Music from a London Pub
Liz & Yvonne Kane, THE WELL-TEMPERED BOW
PAST MASTERS OF IRISH FIDDLE MUSIC
The Martin Gorman 2 CD thingy
I also picked up a couple of Bothy Band CD's. Great stuff, all.
xo,
E. Bess
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by E. Bess
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
that martin gorman set is pretty amazing. i just got it recently, too.
sarah
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by eleyne
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
it's been Catherine McEvoy's solo CD for me of late. Just posted it in the recordings section. There is one tune in particular on this CD that has been catapulted onto the very tip top of my all-time favorite tunes list. It's a jig attributed to Dermot Grogan. I'll post it once i figure out exactly how it goes...
gee glauber, like i need to be any *more* obsessed? ;)
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Brendan
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Well, I'm listening to Myriad with Gerry O'Connor
Details here:
http://www.musicscotland.com/acatalog/MusicScotland_com_Gerry_O_Connor__1301.html
(or http://tinyurl.com/16e4 )
Makes me wonder if the banjo as often depicted as an instrument of US hill-billies (Deliverance, et al) was brought over to the US by the Irish, and therefore if many 'hill-billies' (scuse the stereotype) are of Irish descent...
No doubt someone will set me straight (though not too angrily please... ).
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Crosbie
Ah, more info on the Banjo CD 'Myriad' is here:
http://www.compassrecords.com/oconnor.htm
# Posted on August 26th 2002 by Crosbie
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Denis Murphy - Music from Sliabh Luachra
Martin Hayes - his first album. I picked it up on cassette in a charity shop for 50p just the other day!
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by OrganicPeatCreature
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
ceol aduaidh (mairead ni mhaonaigh&frankie kennedy) - i'm over in belfast on holiday and my mate niall has this in his car.there's some good tunes on this one!
off to sligo and donegal in a couple of days so may pick up something else by then.
before i left it was mainly the frankie gavin/alec finn album.
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by biggus dave
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Ooo, Classical Boy, I LOVE that mairead and frankie CD -- lovely stuff, ain't it?
zls
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
I have a confession to make.
I'm listening to 'A Highland Fiddler', The Clunes Collection of Donald Riddell, with Duncan Chisholm, Iain MacFarlane & the ubiquitous Bruce MacGregor ( thanks to Keith Scammell ) It is super playing, terrific tunes, & a magnificent tribute to Donald Riddell.
Does this confession mean I'm blackballed, or sent to coventry?
Aw heck, I'd hate to be labelled a purist, & anyway.
Fact is, most of the great old Irish reels, started off in Scotland anyway, aint that right weescottishfiddler?
Oops, I see another discussion looming!
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by Ptarmigan
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
OK. In an effort to redeem myself, I will tell you that 'Slan le Loch Eirne' spends a lot of time on my turntable.
This wonderful recording by three masterly musicians, Seamus Quinn, Gary Hastings, & Ciaran Curran, would have spawned the phrase ' The Pure Drop', if it hadn't already been coined.
If you haven't heard this yet, treat yourself.
Forget, that synthetic, high tech. clean, glossy pap, that often passes for a lot of the Irish Traditional Music you'll hear on many new recordings these days. It's all technically brilliant, often superbly talented young players, with loads of funky, groovy new syncopated tunes, & arrangements, but has anyone else found that a lot of that stuff loses it's charm after a couple of listens, like it's too gimicky or something for it's own good. In reality, at the back of all the razzle, there's no real heart & soul to a lot of these modern tunes, & recordings. I would be very surprised if many of them stand the test of time.
Right, with that off my chest, it's back to the recording in hand. The music on this CD is at the centre of the universe for anyone who likes the real article. Deceptively simple arrangements, of wonderful tunes, played with true feeling, from the heart, from three giants of musicians, who are grown up enough to have learned that it's the Xmas present that's important, not the wrapping paper - that goes in the bin!!
For anyone not convinced, go listen to that old recording of Joe Cooley's, & then stick on, well, no names, but you all know the sort of modern recording I'm thinking about. If that doesn't convince you, then maybe you should really be listening to 'House' or 'Rave' music, or maybe I'm just getting old?
If I am getting old however, then please let me grow old gracefully with recordings like this one. Put this on, relax, close your eyes & you can almost smell the Peat in the hearth, & see the rolling hills & fields out the window.
Put some modern recordings on, close your eyes, & you'll probably see a flashing disco ball in the ceiling!
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by Ptarmigan
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
By the way, congratulations to Zina from this new kid on the block. You certainly know how to stimulate debate, 25 responses so far for this one! I guess your an old hand at this. Do you know what the record is so far, & who holds it? Does anybody know? Does anybody care? Does it really matter anyway?
# Posted on August 27th 2002 by Ptarmigan
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Oh, this is a small thread compared to some of our best, Ptarmigan. Do a search on just about any subject (I would suggest perhaps Kerry's "Dreary Plateau" thread for a starter) and you'll find us droning on, laughing hysterically, and arguing vociferously about it.
I hadn't gone back to look at any of our old threads for quite some time until somebody (Volker? Glauber?) posted a link and I went back to look. There's some truly fab threads and posts back there -- well worth the look.
Zina
# Posted on August 28th 2002 by Zina Lee
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
yes,zina,it IS great stuff.
i got some cds of donegal fiddle playing from rab cherry today(well,yesterday as it's the small hours now) but i won't be able to listen to them until i'm back although i heard a bit of one them a few days ago.
there's no backing,just the fiddle or two fiddles doing their stuff - rather like that 'star above the garter' album.
there are 3 cds out at the moment but more are in the pipeline for those of you who like the donegal styles.
# Posted on August 28th 2002 by biggus dave
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Yes, bigdave, I saw them up in Glen, Donegal, a couple of weeks ago - don't you just love it when you can place name drop! Anyway, you started it by dropping Rab Cherry.
I bought the first one, & it is raw Fiddling OK. You get 24 tracks of solo Fiddling, recorded live in Glen, warts & all, by eight terrific players. You can almost hear the beads of sweat running down their brows as these guys played in the wee village hall. They all have Donegal styles, but it's fascinating to hear how very different their individual styles really are. I personally love listening to the tracks by Mick Brown. Great opportunity to clearly hear, ornamentation, & variations ( Zina ), uncluttered by backing instruments, just for a wee change you understand. But seriously, I would highly recommend these CDs, especially to any Fiddler, whether your a fan of the Donegal style or not. If you love Fiddling, you can't help but be impressed by these.
I'll check, & if No.1 isn't posted here, I'll get right on it.
# Posted on August 28th 2002 by Ptarmigan
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Try these two CDs - admittedly one is more Scottish than Irish and the other does have a few Scottish threads:
Last Leaves by Malinky (that's the Scottish one) and If Ida Been Here Ida been there by Craobh Rua - if you ever get the chance to see the latter band live then go - they have one of the best stage acts ever - the guys on banjo and pipes are quite a double act.
# Posted on August 30th 2002 by Nutty Nessie
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
At first Light: McGoldrick & McSherry
The Frost is All Over: McGrattan
All Things Considered: Danu
Beautiful Stuff, really "tutitional"
# Posted on August 31st 2002 by Rmcordoba
Re: What ITM CDs are you listening to this week?
Compendium -Patrick Street
Plays the Irish tenor banjo-Kieran Hanrahan
# Posted on September 1st 2002 by Celtic1234