The Trad Thread (1 Viewer)

[Franco]

Anyone get hold of this new Martin Hayes/Dennis Cahill album?

Apparently it's great.

 

[ilovehoovering]

no but i think i should start listening to some trad by groups that are actually still active...any recommendations?

 

[Franco]

Most of the big trad groups - Lunasa, Altan, Danu etc - are grand for blasting it out live, but i wouldn't be mad into them on record.

Flook from Engerland are decent, but again, i wouldn't be gone on their albums.

I'm no expert though; I thought it'd be good to get a thread going, and see if we can collectively dig out the good stuff.

 

[Unknown Convict]

martin nolan's solo uilleann disc.

martin tourish/luke ward duo disc, clan ranald.

caoimhin o'raghallaigh's fiddle

 

[mc moley]

youre always safe going for the classics like bothy band, planxty, sweeny's men, or anything that shot off from them boys.

 

[shower another shower]

Beoga, from the North. A bit like Flook. Big cross over from trad/jazz/classical.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Boys Of The Lough ain't bad either.

 

[Franco]

This spot is a good resource.

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/

 

[rettucs]

Trad music ain't what it used to be. Like some of the others said, to listen to live it can be great, but on CD, not so good. Case in point, that Cooney-Begley CD about 10 years ago. Their live show was amazing, but the CD just wasn't good.

The old dinosaurs aren't all gone yet so I'll stay listening to them for another while.

Can someone please as Paul Brady to go back to doing trad? He was amazing at it.

 

[thisgreg]

Anyone get hold of this new Martin Hayes/Dennis Cahill album?

Apparently it's great.

I heard "the lonesome touch", that's lovely album, have to check the new one out.

Got "The Liffey Banks" by Tommy Potts a while back and i definitely recommend that if you haven't heard it, beautiful stuff and i love the recording. Well worth picking up.

what about dervish, are they keeping a low profile

 

[potlatch]

I refuse to listen to Martin Hayes until I see him live. What people have said, he's made a pact with the devil. No point hearing that shit on CD.

 

[ilovehoovering]

This spot is a good resource.

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/

Planxty bootlegs! yes! thanks

 

[rotten tropics]

was given a lend of some martin hayes stuff few weeks back,pretty good.
get to do a sean nos workshop at the moment as part of my masters,it's interesting enough,anybody got any recommendations for that type of thing?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

its hard to capture the kick that trad music can have when you bring it into the studio i think, it doesnt seem to be the right place for it. one thing that really bugs me is that on TnaG they sometimes show deadly music with trad player playing but they wreck it by adding reverb and making it sound all soft focus and contemporary. fucking reverb. reeling in the years (is that the rte show that shows archive footage while coronation st is on the other side?) sometimes shows deadly footage. i'd love to be let loose in the rte archives to look at some of the good stuff.

 

[Franco]

was given a lend of some martin hayes stuff few weeks back,pretty good.
get to do a sean nos workshop at the moment as part of my masters,it's interesting enough,anybody got any recommendations for that type of thing?

Lasairfhiona http://www.myspace.com/lasairfhiona

and her brother MacDara http://www.myspace.com/macdaramusic

are two sean-nos style singers from Inis Oirr; it's accompanied so might not exactly be old style singing in the purest sense.

Iarla O'Lionaird is another contemporary singer influenced by sean-nos.

 

[Buzzo]

get to do a sean nos workshop at the moment as part of my masters,it's interesting enough,anybody got any recommendations for that type of thing?

What's your masters? Sean Garvey's first album has a couple of rapid sean nos tunes going on- he has a really beautiful voice, but tends to do lots of accompanied shit and more modren shit too (which is deadly but poss not what yer lookin for). Nan Tom Teaimin De Burca is fuckin creepy good and v.traditional. Brendan Begley is cool too.

 

[binky]

hayes/cahill are jaw dropping live.

If you haven't seen an Irvine live show you're seriously missing out; totally kicking myself I missed his woody guthrie songbook thing and, while we're off the subject, Mozaik are kind of hungarian/irish/greek/appalacian fusion but are absolutely amazing live.

 

[rotten tropics]

What's your masters? Sean Garvey's first album has a couple of rapid sean nos tunes going on- he has a really beautiful voice, but tends to do lots of accompanied shit and more modren shit too (which is deadly but poss not what yer lookin for). Nan Tom Teaimin De Burca is fuckin creepy good and v.traditional. Brendan Begley is cool too.

ethnomusicology in ucc.



thanks for all the recommendations,not too interested in the accompanied stuff but i'll give it a go.

 

[rettucs]

Planxty bootlegs! yes! thanks

hoovering, are the tickets for those Mozaik gigs on sale anywhere?

or are they pay on the door?

do you know?

 

[ilovehoovering]

01 885 2622 is the venue box office or http://www.draiocht.ie/

booking over the phone is free. booking fee if you do it online.