Brendan Power - Sweet Bulgarity Lucy Randall - Bodhran CD - Lament for the 21st Century - available at www.candyrat.com amazon.com and itunes Visit Brendan Power at www.brendan-pow...
"hahah 2:40 - 2:50 is an awkward ten seconds lol" Huh? As she's finishing up her solo she glances up and makes eye contact -- so he knows she's done -- then she plays a tasty little descending riff leading back into the main rhythm, he says "Yeah!" to acknowledge her solo, then she lands on the main rhythm and he restates the main melodic theme. Seen/done that exchange a million times. Can't imagine what YOU saw.
a real master!!! i hv attended his preformance last night in hongkong.. wwow.. wonderful!! he can play all kind of music, and i can feel his love to music and harmonica. so dynamic, creative, willing to share, smart, kind.. talented of cuz. although i know nothing about harmonica, but deadly admire his passion on creating his own music and instrument.
Like a spice rack for the ears! So earthy and sensuous, really transcendent & etherial. The percusion was just the right touch to carry the melody line along. The way the two played off each other's cues was sensational! Thank you for the great post! ~Jon
@joce3515 It is called a bodhran. The player presses their hand up against the inside of the drum head (typically made of goat skin) to change the pitch. Various shapes of the hands will evoke different changes in pitch. Lucy Randall is a true pro at doing this. I should know, I've been trying to do what she does for years now...
Really awsome, great to hear different sounds, plus I like how it has a little ambient feel to it. And like nchune said, that's a really tasty drumsolo.
Close your eyes, and it seems like Lucy is surrounded by a complicated set of drums. Open your eyes and marvel that its just a single 12" bodhran and a puny little stick. She's like a wizard.
I like Lucy's relaxed style with her tipper hand. She clearly shows that bodhran players don't need to be giving themselves Carpal Tunnel Syndrome with wild wrist gyrations.
Awesome awesome awesome, and is it my imagination, or has Joni Mitchell time traveled from circa-1969 to perform with this guy. I always suspected she'd mastered space, time and dimension.
Hey folk music is cool either way you look at it whether its Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, or Hell even American, I love it all. I mean just look at loituma levan pollka
Hi, the drum is called Tupan its Bulgarian, the whole song is in traditional Bulgarian rhythm not Irish. The Tupan is wrilly close to Bodhran, and we also have pipes as the Irish, but the way we use our so similar instruments is amazingly different. I think Brendan Power captured that in astonishing way in this song : )
