Mr. Kelly, you are amongst the best Bodhrán players I have ever heard! Your skills are phenomenal! Of course, also big respect to the other members of Flook - it is a great pleasure listening to your music! Great work!!!
One of my favorite song! One of my favorite band! It always wakes up in the morning, it drives in the car, and it entertains other as my mobile has Flook for the call sound! Unbelievable performance! Greeting from Ukraine!
Especially nice video - I'm a bodhrán-player, so I'll admit I'm here mostly for JJKelly.... Because you get to hear bodhrán (at the highest level) in both solo and ensemble modes. JJ has always been the legend for precision, rhythmic imagination, and (especially) top-end beeblyboop drrrrrrr boop-da-doop [bonk] since I was first learning. Plenty of that (and humour) in his solo: but you also get to hear him as a groove musician, extra-fuelling a tune which is already on afterburner (Flook are, er, just a bit good...) with some nitro: but in the background, so that only bodhrán-geeks like me would pull it out of the overall sound. Also, how important it is to be next to a guitarist (or bouzoukist, or mandolinist, whatever) who's on the same wavelength. Lovely!
So outstanding! Two questions I have: how or what is making the deep percussion bass beat that you can hear? Also around 10:00, it sounds almost like a French horn playing. Is that low notes being played on the flute?
The bass sound is coming from the bodhrán (pronounced bow -ron). It's a truly lovely instrument and has a great tonal range because the pitch can be changed by using the non- playing hand to press on the skin from the back of the drum. John Joe Kelly is a great bodhrán player, is Cathy Jordan from Dervish and Robbie Walsh, amongst many others. For another. Good example of bodhrán playing look for the video of Geoff Kinsella, Robbie Walsh and Daori Farrell playing galway girl in an airport. The French horn like sound is the low-whistle I think!
@@liamg1995 Sorry to dispute you, Liam, but I am quite sure the low notes are the flute, as the whistle is being played in a much higher range continuously throughout this section. (Finnegan does play low whistle and flute, but unless I'm greatly mistaken he's playing a whistle [aka pennywhistle] here; the low whistle he plays on other videos is quite a lot longer and a bit larger in diameter.)
@@anitaholladay2389 no worries, on further listening, and a bit of re- education about whistles on my part, I've realized that I didn't know what I was talking about !
Last tune as part of the set was Pressed For Time, the "outro" of the whole video under the credits is a short snippet of another Flook tune written by Sarah Allen, Granny In The Attic...
