brilliant. i spent the whole week at his midwest concertina camp. the cd does him full justice. before noel hill i never fully appreciated slow airs. i loved to play them but never had the patience to listen to them. i get disappointed when the slow airs end because i want them to keep going on, when noel plays them. he plays so expressively.
and of course his reels, jigs, slides, stratspeys, and hornpipes are superb. crisp, pure, mind numbing cranns and the perfect amount of chords / drones.
the backing is all well done, as well. this is a concertina must.
there's an easter egg (i.e. little hidden feature) in the sleeve booklet that he showed us. see if you can find it.
Great Cd, I prefer this to one to his first concertina CD. A lot of the tracks on this seem to be duets with fiddle player, Liam O'Connor which sound great!
The Irish Concertina Two
First cd for over a decade! Worth the wait.
# Posted on August 10th 2005 by geoffwright
brilliant. i spent the whole week at his midwest concertina camp. the cd does him full justice. before noel hill i never fully appreciated slow airs. i loved to play them but never had the patience to listen to them. i get disappointed when the slow airs end because i want them to keep going on, when noel plays them. he plays so expressively.
and of course his reels, jigs, slides, stratspeys, and hornpipes are superb. crisp, pure, mind numbing cranns and the perfect amount of chords / drones.
the backing is all well done, as well. this is a concertina must.
there's an easter egg (i.e. little hidden feature) in the sleeve booklet that he showed us. see if you can find it.
# Posted on August 21st 2005 by daiv
The Irish Concertina Two
Great Cd, I prefer this to one to his first concertina CD. A lot of the tracks on this seem to be duets with fiddle player, Liam O'Connor which sound great!
# Posted on February 12th 2007 by PaddyCmusic