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    Arethusa Consortium
    Elena Buttiero, celtic harp, spinet Ferdinando Molteni, mandocello, guitar Stefano Tomasini, celtic harp This album was born from the desire to have a permanent record of two shows that Arethusa Consortium is producing. The first show is a recital entitled O'Carolan Stories and is devoted entirely to Turlough O'Carolan, the most important Irish composer. The second part is a journey in European music-beginning with music of Davide Rizzio from the sixteenth century and progressing to music of contemporary composers such as Andrès and Tiersen. For this album we chose a selection of music that, despite coming from different projects, have their own tonal, melodic, or rhythmic consistency. It is, ultimately, an exploration of European instrumental music linking, in equal measure, scholarly and popular traditions. The earliest composer in this recording is David Rizzio. Born in Pancalieri, near Turin (Italy), around 1533, he lived the last years of his life at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, In Edinburgh. He was killed by conspirators, motivated by jealousy, in 1566. He composed some of the most beautiful melodies of Scotland. We have chosen two, and have combined the versions from Orpheus Caledonius, published in 1725 by William Thomson and from A Collection of Scots Tunes by William McGibbon (1746). From Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738), the most popular Irish composer, we have selected some melodies from Edward Bunting's General Collection of Ancient Irish Music, published in Dublin in 1796. Contemporary instrumental music is represented by two French composers whom we love. The are Bernard Andrès (1940), author of brilliant compositions for harp, and Yann Tiersen (1970), eclectic writer of music often performed using toy instruments. They are joined by Ferdinando Molteni (1962) with a composition written for a traditional Italian instrument, the mandocello. Elena Buttiero plays a Aziliz Camac harp and a Claudio Tuzzi spinet, 2005. Ferdinando Molteni plays a German mandocello (early XX century), a Sicilian contralto mandola (late XIX century), a Larrivée L03 guitar, a Spanish classical guitar and toy percussion instruments. Stefano Tomasini plays a Melusine Camac harp. Info: allegroconmoto. Savona@virgilio. It.
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    Heart to Sky
    'Silence the clutter of a lifetime past / and in this moment blessed be.'-title track, Heart to Sky (2010) Emerging from a secluded little island off the West Coast of Canada, Marley Daemon is a new breed of folk songstress. With a heart-flooding sound and unusually captivating lyrics she is sweeping onto the modern music scene like a Pacific storm, answering for us the question, "What kind of music would come out of a girl raised away from main-stream society and institutionalized schooling, surrounded only by musical instruments, overflowing bookshelves, and thriving wilderness?" After playing in 5 different bands since the age of 14, studying Indian classical music at an elite school in Varanasi, and recently earning a degree from the Victoria Conservatory of Music (where she was awarded the Katarina Composition Scholarship for best up-and-coming young composer), the gifted singer/pianist/guitarist has honed a distinctive voice that swells loose and easily through her courageously original repertoire - a repertoire that, stylistically, one reviewer can only sum up as "somewhere near the crossroads of new-generation-neo-folk, experimental-old-time, and melodic-eastern-post-bop-soul, [with] a fascinating sense of melodic construction, adventurous harmonies and forms, and a delectable pop sensibility." Drawing on a strange array of cross-cultural artistic influences (jazz, Celtic, magic literature, Wicca, post-modern philosophy and Indian Classical to name a few) Daemon sings in vivid poetry to the deepest questions surrounding human identity. The result is an impassioned tapestry that ignites the visual imagination while uncovering new emotions in the listener. Since the release of her debut album, Heart to Sky in 2010, Daemon is quickly finding a home in the popular Canadian music scene. Besides receiving attention from television and radio media, Daemon has toured the country twice, stunning audiences at such events as the Victoria Jazz Festival, Campbell Bay Music Fest and the infamous ArtsWells Music Festival in Wells B.C. Recorded and co-produced by engineer/musician Adrian Dolan (from Canada's renowned folk band The Bills), Heart to Sky is made up of a talented cast of notable west-coast musicians Oliver Swain (upright bass), Kelby MacNayr (drums), Daniel Lapp (trumpet), Taylor Ashton and Adam Iredale-Gray of Fish and Bird (banjo and violin, vocals) among many others. Heart to Sky also features two elaborate string arrangements by Dolan, on which he plays violin, viola and mandola. Pushing bravely into unexplored territory, Heart to Sky continues to open doors for Marley Daemon. As Adrian Dolan puts it, "She is at the forefront of an exciting generation of young musicians poised to rejuvenate the folk genre as we know it, as well as put the Canadian west coast on the map as a hot-bed for intelligent and vastly original music."
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    So the Story Goes / Various
    Close friends for many decades, Seán, Kevin and Ronan have toured and played socially since the early 1980s. Years of pressure from fans and friends have at last led to them making this recording of songs and tunes. Unsurprisingly, this CD (and so the story goes...) is true to their concert performances - a comfortable balance of gentle and wild pieces, never suffering from that immobilising modern ailment, over-production, just warm, friendly music and song. The tracks are rounded out beautifully by the delicately responsive accompaniment of three fine musicians, Fergus Feeley on mandola, Jimmy Fitzgerald on guitar and Paul O'Driscoll on double bass. SEÁN TYRRELL Seán Tyrrell was born in Galway City and has lived in County Clare for many years. He was the first on either side of his family to take up music although his father was a fairly good singer in the Irish tenor style. Musical help with his first stumbling steps was given to him by his good friend Jack Geary and from then on he has been self-taught. The people who have influenced Seán most are Dónal Standún, Joe Cooley, Kevin Keegan, Seán Chóilín Ó Conaire, Liam Weldon and Martin Rockford. Seán emigrated to New York in 1968 and joined the folk club scene in Greenwich Village. The early Seventies took him west to San Francisco, where he played in many an Irish music session. It was here that Seán's reputation as a singer of songs was formed. After moving to New Hampshire in the Mid-Seventies, he co-founded Apples in Winter, a band which was short-lived but which gained a name for itself. He returned to Ireland in the late Seventies, where he continued to compose, but seldom played in public. In 1978 he accepted employment with the University of Galway, based in the heart of the Burren in County Clare. It was hard to avoid music in this part of Ireland and Seán was soon lured back into the music scene. Swapping the Burren for the shelter of Bell Harbour, close to the border of his native county, Sean spent his time juggling the demands of mussel farming and a re-energised attention to his music. The early 1990s saw the release of Seán's first CD, Cry of a Dreamer, his winning of IMRO's 'Best Overall Folk Act' and his first musical adaptation of The Midnight Court, staged by the Galway Arts Festival in 1992, was immediately regarded by many as the hit of that year's festival. The Midnight Court has been an ongoing success in various forms and has toured most of Ireland's big theatres and was staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008. It has now entered yet another new phase with a collaboration which sees the artist Dara McGee and FÍBÍN doing live animation in tandem with The Midnight Court. Since Cry of a Dreamer, Seán has gone on to release The Orchard, Belladonna, Rising Tide and Message of Peace, while he had previously collaborated on two of Davy Spillane's CDs and was featured on the Songs of Peace Passendale Concert series. As well as the ongoing relationship with Ronan and Kevin, Seán has been involved in many other musical combinations with Paddy Keenan, Tommy Peoples, Little John Nee and the poet Mary O'Malley. KEVIN GLACKIN Kevin Glackin comes from a musical family in Dublin. He started playing the fiddle at the age of six under the guidance of his late father Tom who came from the Rosses in Donegal and it is indeed the Donegal style of fiddle playing that is most evident in Kevin's playing. Growing up in Dublin, players such as Frank O'Higgins, Leo Rowsome, John Joe Gardiner and John Kelly were regular visitors to the Glackin household and as a result Kevin was exposed at an early age to a wide range of different styles. During the Eighties Kevin embarked on his own musical journey, travelling the length and breadth of the country playing with various musicians. He recorded an album with a number of other Dublin traditional musicians under the title Bakerswell, which included musicians such as Sean Potts, Mick Hand and John Kelly. During this time he also recorded a duet album with his brother Seamus, called Northern Lights. This album received critical acclaim and was voted traditional album of the year by the Belfast Telegraph. During the Nineties he collaborated and toured with other musicians as well as Ronan and Seán. He also made a duet album with piper Davy Spillane called Forgotten Days which was voted traditional album of the year by the readers of Irish Music Magazine. Kevin has toured extensively in Europe, the U.S.A. and Asia. He currently lives in Dublin and teaches fiddle on the traditional music course in the Conservatory of Music and Drama at the Dublin Institute of Technology. RONAN BROWNE Born and bred in Dublin, Ronan Browne left the city in 1990, spending ten years in the Glen of Imaal in Wicklow before crossing the Shannon in the year 2000, to live in Spiddal. Musicians Peter O'Loughlin, Willie Clancy, Séamus Ennis, Leo Rowsome, Tommy Reck, Denis Murphy and Tommy Potts were family friends so it is no wonder that they all had a huge influence on Ronan's musical development. It was only in later years that the singing of his maternal grandmother, Delia Murphy, became important to him, as the young Ronan saw her more as a grandmother than an influential singer. Ronan's first lessons were from Dan O'Dowd with the newly formed Na Píobairí Uilleann in the early 1970s and as he grew older, John Kelly's Capel Street shop, The Horse Shoe and the Four Seasons pub next door, became his places of learning - if you waited long enough it seemed that all the good musicians passed through at some time. Kevin Glackin has been a lifelong friend and they have played together since their youth. The friendship with Seán Tyrrell was built up in the 1980s over many late nights in Ollie Conway's pub in Mullagh in County Clare. Having spent his whole life as a professional musician, Ronan straddles that difficult divide between pure traditional music and the modern electronic world, his work ranging from solo projects, playing with Glackin and Tyrrell, his celebrated duet with veteran musician Peter O'Loughlin, his trio CRAN, his acclaimed collaboration with poet Louis de Paor and trio performances with sean nós singer Róisín Elsafty and harpist Siobhan Armstrong, to writing and performing music for film and television and as the original piper with both the Afro Celt Sound System and Riverdance. Ronan has been involved in over 100 album recordings since his first venture into the studio in 1982 and has collaborated with many top traditional Irish music, classical, pop, jazz and country artists. Ronan's recent ventures have included a highly critically acclaimed listening/music appreciation class which opens people's ears to the depths of Irish music and a series of in-depth historical and critical articles on the piper and pipe-maker R. L. O'Mealy (1873-1947) for the Seán Reid Society. Ronan has been a member of the house band for three series of the hugely successful cult music-programme, The Transatlantic Sessions. His music has been used in many films including The Secret of Roan Inis, Circle of Friends, Rob Roy and Gangs of New York while possibly the strangest place his music has been placed was in the Playboy video of Farrah Fawcett, 'All of Me'! Since 2007, Ronan has been playing pipes, flutes and whistles for wedding ceremonies and he was awarded "Wedding Musician of the Year, 2011" at the "Weddings Online" awards.
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    Dos
    Die spanische Weltmusik Band Zoobazar überrascht ihrem außergewöhnlichen und erstaunlichen zweiten Album, das den simplen Titel "Dos" trägt. Nach ihrem großartigen Debütalbum "Uno" im Jahr 2011, das in Spanien und international großartige Kritiken erhielt, nehmen Amir John Haddad (arabische Oud, griechische Bouzouki, türkische Saz, Mandola), Pablo Martin Jones (Schlagzeug, Perkussion, Kalimba), Diego Galaz (Geige, Mandoline, Säge) und Hector Tellini den Hörer mit auf eine mediterrane Musikreise, deren Mischung den Sound von Zoobazar ausmacht. Entlang der Mittelmeerküste sammelt die Band die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Ingredienzen der iberischen Halbinsel, Griechenlands, Türkei und des Mittleren Ostens und mischen diese mit Balkan Beat, indischer oder Nordafrikanischer Musik sowie Elementen des Funk, Rock und Jazz.
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    Presley, A: Wrangled
    Die Tochter eines Bergmannes aus Kentucky, alleinerziehende Mutter und Wal-Mart-Kassiererin ist der Prototyp des modernen und authentischen Country-Stars. Angaleena Presley will follow her acclaimed 2014 American Middle Class with Wrangled, her second full-length solo album, on April 21 via Mining Light Music/Thirty Tigers. The album is co-produced by Angaleena and Oran Thornton and features 12 tracks, all of which were cowritten by Presley. One of the album's many highlights is "Cheer Up Little Darling¿ written by Angaleena and her dear friend,Guy Clark. The song ¿ the last song completed by Guy before his death ¿ features Shawn Camp playing Guy's No. 10 guitar, which was used to write the song with Guy, and Guy's mandola, which Guy had been learning to play during the last year of his life. Angaleena Presley has been touring regularly over in the UK since 2014 and most recently toured with Brandi Carlile in November 2016 and February to participate in the UK Americana Awards and will return to set up the record in early April 2017Für seine letzte beiden Alben hat Eady viel Kriterlob erhalten. Er steht für klassischen Country mit blues-infizierter Americana.
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    Wrangled
    (LP) Die Tochter eines Bergmannes aus Kentucky, alleinerziehende Mutter und Wal-Mart-Kassiererin ist der Prototyp des modernen und authentischen Country-Stars.Die Tochter eines Bergmannes aus Kentucky, alleinerziehende Mutter und Wal-Mart-Kassiererin ist der Prototyp des modernen und authentischen Country-Stars. Angaleena Presley will follow her acclaimed 2014 American Middle Class with Wrangled, her second full-length solo album, on April 21 via Mining Light Music/Thirty Tigers. The album is co-produced by Angaleena and Oran Thornton and features 12 tracks, all of which were cowritten by Presley. One of the album s many highlights is Cheer Up Little Darling written by Angaleena and her dear friend,Guy Clark. The song the last song completed by Guy before his death features Shawn Camp playing Guy's No. 10 guitar, which was used to write the song with Guy, and Guy s mandola, which Guy had been learning to play during the last year of his life. Angaleena Presley has been touring regularly over in the UK since 2014 and most recently toured with Brandi Carlile in November 2016 and February to participate in the UK Americana Awards and will return to set up the record in early April 2017Für seine letzte beiden Alben hat Eady viel Kriterlob erhalten. Er steht für klassischen Country mit blues-infizierter Americana. TRACKS: 1. Dreams Don't Come True 2. High School 3. Only Blood 4. Country 5. Wrangled 6. Bless My Heart 7. Outlaw 8. Mama I Tried 9. Cheer Up Little Darling 10. Groundswell 11. Good Girl Down 12. Motel Bible
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