Harkens back to the Burke/Ó Domhnaill recordings of the '80s, Portland and Promenade. Pure romance, pure soul, as understated as a constellation on a clear night.
Having been in an Irish trad (or close enough for the midwest US) band for 7.5 years, the one that always bothered me was a performer who could play the music but didn't have _that touch_ ... the one that says, "hey, you can strum this jig pattern AT MORE THAN ONE VOLUME, YOU KNOW." The Gloaming, for me, was salvific. When I heard the Gloaming back in 2014, I think I became obsessed. Their ability to imbue subtlety and restraint into Irish music was somehow a watershed moment for me; yet, it was like Irish music had always been that way, even if I'd never heard it. I find it rather difficult to listen to any other Irish bands now, other than for the sake of learning their tunes by ear. So few of them have _that touch_ . Tá siad go hiontach ar fad.
wow cant hold back tears,beautiful .how this could find me in a corner of Africa. just tells u d beauty of music. wish i can see cucanady live recording .## piper sell your pipes , buy your wife a gown##
Players come and go but Martin Hayes persists among them all. While some great names have departed, new ones replace them. Vale Liam O'Flynn and Arty McGlynn and many others lesser known or appreciated. The Irish tradition of music is well supplied with new forces as the old ones fade and pass away.
Mesmerizing. I heard my heart leap to the stars and beat to the beauty of a song that knows it's infinite. I felt the seasons swirl as the violin spoke to the piano, and I wept as if I were a field of snow melting in the spring. I'm grateful that two of the most soulful voices in the universe at this moment, Larla's (and Peter's) give us such treasure. I'll share with the children I care for who are on ventilators.
+David BENOIT They're from two poems by Seán Ó Riordáin. All except the last come from Oilithreacht Fám Anam (A pilgrimage of my soul.) The last is from A SheanFhilí Múinídh Dom Glao (Old poets, teach me to call). Here they are, in Irish first and then with my translation. Do labhair an tír mar theampall Bhí síul na habhann boimpéiseach Do chrom go glúin na gleannta Bhí fíor na croise ar ghéaga Le soiscéal gaoithe d’éisteas Bhí naofacht ar an dtalamh Anseo do mhair mo chéadshearc Níor ghabhas an treo le fada Chonac saol mar scéal fiannaíochta Fadó fadó ar maidin A mhúnlaigh an tslat draíochta A bhíonn ‘na laimh ag leanbh D’aiséirigh ‘na taisléine Le solas ar a leacainn Is do thionlaic mé go gléineach Ar oilithreacht fám anam Anseo do mhair mo chéadshearc Níor ghabhas an treo le fada Ta aisling ann Is eol dom í Ag fiuchadh i mbroinn mo shamhlaíochta Lasair gheal gan chorp mar ghaoith Agus corp oiriúnach á impí aici The land spoke like a temple The river walked pompously The valleys bent to their knees The sign of the cross was in the branches I listened to a gospel of wind There was holiness on the ground Here is where my first love lived I haven’t come this way in a long time I saw a world like a fairy tale Long ago, long ago in the morning That woke the magic wand That a child has in his hand She rose again in her shroud, With light on her cheek And she went brightly along with me On a pilgrimage of my soul Here is where my first love lived I haven’t come this way in a long time There is a vision there I know her well Boiling in the womb of my imagination A bright flame without form like the wind Begging for a fitting body
Tanja Hebbeding He is interested in instruments like the Norwegian hardanger fiddle and other instruments with sympathetic strings. I guess he cultivates a kind of purposefully inexact phrasing to imitate that sound.
I like that sound too. You don't need a mute to get it. He isn't pressing the strings fully against the fingerboard with his left hand and he isn't exerting much pressure on the bow with his first finger and is probably bowing further from the bridge than you normally would. The bow is also moved more slowly to accentuate the sound of the hairs on the strings. It takes a lot of control but it is very effective.
