This is a traditional music group with a saxophone! The combination harks back to the Irish dance bands of the 1920s. The name At the Racket was apparently borrowed from a 78-rpm recording by the Flanagan Brothers.
This is a lovely album. Sure, it can put off the pure drop listener- but doesn't the tradition include the dance bands of the thirties? Certainly Josie McDermott and Noel Sweeney would appreciate this stuff. I find it graceful and lovely and full of sweetness. I highly recommend this CD.
It's great fun!!
The soprano saxophone was making a great job in the Moving Hearts, but here it's an alto and it's too 'heavy'. The phrasing doesn't fit with the music at all.
Is it a problem with the instrument or the player, I don't know. I just don't like it. The talent of the other guys on the fiddle and the banjo (woaw, the tuning 'on the fly' on Splendid Isolation !) is just ruined by the sax. (The vibrato is probably the biggest problem, not to mention the absence of ornementation...).
This is a traditional music group with a saxophone! The combination harks back to the Irish dance bands of the 1920s. The name At the Racket was apparently borrowed from a 78-rpm recording by the Flanagan Brothers.
# Posted on March 9th 2003 by Backer
Adam and Eve Set
Does anyone know the name of the second tune in the Adam and Eve Set?
# Posted on August 20th 2004 by Irina
Isn't this the mirth making heros album?
# Posted on September 14th 2005 by continuo
Great stuff
This is a lovely album. Sure, it can put off the pure drop listener- but doesn't the tradition include the dance bands of the thirties? Certainly Josie McDermott and Noel Sweeney would appreciate this stuff. I find it graceful and lovely and full of sweetness. I highly recommend this CD.
It's great fun!!
# Posted on April 26th 2007 by cocus
Adam and Eve set
Second tune in the set is on the site:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/5423
This is an amazing album.
# Posted on April 21st 2008 by octogreg
Don't like it
The soprano saxophone was making a great job in the Moving Hearts, but here it's an alto and it's too 'heavy'. The phrasing doesn't fit with the music at all.
Is it a problem with the instrument or the player, I don't know. I just don't like it. The talent of the other guys on the fiddle and the banjo (woaw, the tuning 'on the fly' on Splendid Isolation !) is just ruined by the sax. (The vibrato is probably the biggest problem, not to mention the absence of ornementation...).
# Posted on August 16th 2009 by Emmanuel Delahaye