Flook- Flatfish (1999)

“The first studio album from this dazzling young Anglo/Irish four-piece, two years on from their live debut CD, is also their first recording since Mike McGoldrick, one of the band's original flute and whistle players, was replaced by bodhran sensation John Joe Kelly.

McGoldrick's departure was widley seen as a blow; if so, Flook have triumphed over adversity. Sarah Allen and Brian Finnegan continue to conjure a breathtaking array of wind blown timbres and textures, each playing several variations on the band's signature instrument. Kelly and guitarist Ed Boyd make a dream team rhythm section, their precision honed yet gossamer-fine interplay meshing mesmerically with the melodies, Boyd occasionally picking out the tune, with Finnegan and Allen hit a sparky percussive groove.

No guest players, no electronic embellishments, just a craking set of tunes, from tender waltzes to fiery Balkan dances, and a cornucopia of sublime musicianship.”

Rating *****  Sue Wilson, The Scotsman, Saturday, October 2, 1999

1. Calico
2. Eb Reels
3. The Gentle Giant
4. Sligo Reel
5. Flatfish
6. Happy Jigs
7. Bruno
8. Waltzes
9. Flutopia

Sarah Allen: Flute, alto flute, Whistler and accordion.

Ed Boyd: Guitars, bouzouki and mandolina.

Brian Finnegan: Flutes, whistles and bansuri.

John Joe Kelly: Bodhràn.

Flook- Flatfish

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Erik Marchand et les Balkaniks- Pruna (2004)

Pruna, "la Prune" en français; ou comment savourer un fruit juteux, sucré bourré d'énergie, provenant d'un arbre improbable qui aurait ses racines en Bretagne et dans les Balkans.

Erik Marchand, chanteur et clarinettiste de son état, défend depuis plus de vingt ans la musique traditionnelle bretonne et au même titre que Thierry "Titi" Robin avec qui il a d'ailleurs collaboré, il frotte ses origines aux autres cultures.

C'est ainsi qu'il joue depuis une dizaine d'années avec Bannat, le Taraf de Caransebes, groupe de musique populaire roumaine. Ses complices habituels, Jacky Molard, violon et guitare, Gabriel Kerdoncuff, trompette et bombarde, sont de la partie ainsi qu'un accordéoniste serbe, Hélène Labarrière contrebassiste française, plus habituée aux terres du jazz, un percussionniste moldave et un autre turque viennent compléter l'ensemble.

Un paquet de musiciens qui joue avec entrain une musique aux vertues médicinales, indispensable pour garder sa bonne humeur et sa largesse d'esprit. Si le mélange opère avec facilité, c'est que chacun joue avec respect la musique de l'autre et en possède une profonde connaissance.

Les improvisations et les envolées instrumentales vont bon train et la voix d'Erik Marchand transcende l'ensemble. Si les diplomates politiciens des différents états pouvaient s'entendre avec autant de facilité et d'audace, nous vivrions à coup sûr dans un monde meilleur.

1. Ar foll

2. Kastell ar mignoned

3. Reuzioù ar brezel 1ère partie

4. Reuzioù ar brezel 2e partie

5. Ar bloaz daou vil 1ère partie

6. Ar bloaz daou vil 2e partie

7. Adda kaleh

8. Pruna

9. Talvoudegez ar feiz

10. Gewier 1ère partie

11. Gewier 2e partie

Erik Marchand et les Balkaniks- Pruna (2004)
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Phønix- Folk (2007)

Danish folk-rockers present a studio album for 2007 where the unique sound of the quartet (accordion, bass clarinet, percussion and vocals) is in sharp focus, but with many guest artists adding color and depth. Phønix offers a very original and personal expression The new CD features 12 new songs and tunes, arranged with the unique "Phønix sound". Partly traditional, partly new composed material. On the cd, you can also hear a bunch of guests, including Hans Mydtskov on saxophone and the singer Ivan Pedersen.

1. Ulv, Ræv og Hare (Wolf, Fox and Hare)
2. Majvisen (The May Song)
3. Halmværket (The Straw Work)
4. Over Isen (Across the Ice)
5. Liden Karen (Little Karen)
6. Gærdet (The Fence)
7. Anden Storm (Second Storm)
8. Øst og Vest (East and West)
9. Når Bjørne Danser (Dancing Bears)

10. Bonden og Ræven (The Farmer and the Fox)

11. Anton og Randi’s (Anton and Randi's)

12. Peter S (Peter S)

Karen Mose: Voice.

Jesper Vinther: Accordion.

Anja Præst: Bass Clarinet & Clarinet.

Jesper Falch: Percussion.

Phønix-Folk

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Sharon Shannon & Galvin, McGoldrick, Murray- Tunes (2005)

“Tunes” is an album from Sharon Shannon, Frankie Gavin, fiddler and leader of seminal trad band, De Dannan, Mike McGoldrick, flautist and member of Capercaillie and Flook and who fronts his own band Fused, and one-man rhythm section guitarist, Jim Murray. The material on this new album is exactly as the title suggests – a collection of tunes ranging from traditional Irish to traditional Asturian tunes with some newly composed Scottish tunes and newly composed tunes by each of this talented quartet thrown in for good measure. “Tunes” was recorded during December 04 and January 05 in Galway and not only reflects the individual style and virtuosity of each of the musicians, but also introduces us to the powerhouse of energy and creativity generated by them collectively....

1. The Cappataggle Shuffle
2. The Rookey
3. The Jewels Of The Ocean
4. The Road To Corrandulla
5. Billy In The Lowground
6. Summers Coming
7. Calum's Road
8. Mickey Joe Mikes
9. The Bass Rock
10. The Cat's Miaow
11. The Clare Reel
12. The Bucks Of Oranmore

Tunes- Shannon, Galvin, Murray and McGoldrick

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Tonolec Folk- Los Pasos Labrados (2010)

A fines de noviembre de 2010, sale a la luz la tercera producción de Tonolec, titulada Los Pasos Labrados; un disco de canciones criollas versionadas con el estilo propio electrónico y paisajístico que caracteriza a estos músicos del norte argentino. 

Tonolec Folk, Los Pasos Labrados, es la nueva propuesta de Charo Bogarín Y Diego Pérez, quienes a través de siete canciones, de una lograda espesura y de una profundidad en su interpretación, realizan un merecido homenaje a los grandes compositores de folclore, no solo argentino, sino latinoamericano. 

Sin perder el estilo electrónico e intimista que los caracteriza, Tonolec Folk, invita a escuchar con nuevos aires, canciones conocidas de nuestro cancionero popular folclórico, tales como Zamba para Olvidar (Daniel Toro); Cinco Siglos Igual, en lengua toba (León Gieco-Luis Gurevich); el chamamé Cacique Catán, en lengua Mocoví (Luis Mendoza y Tránsito Cocomarola) , la hermosa canción de cuna Duerme, Duerme Negrito (recopilada en la frontera entre Colombia y Venezuela por Don Atahualpa Yupanqui) y la desgarradora canción de la chilena Violeta Parra, Que he sacado con Quererte, que abre el álbum de Los Pasos Labrados, mostrándose como una de las versiones más oscuras lograda por estos músicos en su revisión del folclore tradicional.Como invitada especial de esta producción aparece en el cierre del disco, la mujer QOM (toba) Rosalía Patricio, integrante del Coro Toba Chelaalapí, cantando Antiguos dueños de las Flechas (Indio Toba), orquestada detrás por una sutil y despojada electrónica. 

Los Pasos Labrados también incluye como Bonus Track, un video de la canción Antiguos Dueños de las Flechas, dirigido por Alejandro Butula, en una versión netamente electrónica de la dupla Bogarín-Pérez, filmado en un set minimalista orgánico y moderno, con vestuario y estilismo a cargo de la diseñadora Luz Arpajou. 

Con este tercer álbum en su carrera, Tonolec pone en relevancia el espíritu musical de la canción, errante y sin frontera, de algunos de nuestros grandes íconos del folclore latinoamericano y destaca la pluma de compositores que, desde la canción tradicional, contribuyeron y aun lo siguen haciendo, a mantener vivo el folclore de raíces profundas y sentidas de nuestro continente. 

1. Que he sacado con quererte 
2. Zamba para olvidar 
3. Cacique Catán 
4. Cinco siglos igual 
5. El cosechero 
6. Duerme, duerme negrito 
7. Indio Toba 

Bonus track: video de Indio Toba. 

Tonolec Folk- Los Pasos Labrados
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Deiseal- The Long Long Note (1993)

Irish Traditional music came under the spotlight in the seventies, thanks to the ground breaking work of such bands as Sweeney’s Men, Planxty and The Bothy Band. These groups exposed a whole crop of younger musicians to the creative possibilities in a mountain of music as old as the hills.

Here on this recording Cormac Breatnach, Niall Ó Callanáin and Paul O’Driscoll, three of that younger crop, display their creative musicality. Both founding members of the highly innovative, but short lived, Meristem, Cormac and Niall have been playing together since their school days.

In this trio format, which is the ideal compromise between solo and group playing, they perform a mixture of traditional and original music in a style that reflects not just their traditional roots and modern influences but their own musical souls as well.

I love and enjoy their music, I hope you, the listener, will too.

Brian Dunning

1. Shores Of Loch Ghamhna

2. Sí Beag, Sí Mór

3. Raindrops/The First Of May

4. My Love I Miss Her So

5. Long (Long) Note

6. Soporific / The Rights Of Man

7. Mná na hÉireann

8. Stranger At The Gate / Boston Blues

9. Lord Inchiquin

10. Lakeside

Cormac Breatnach: Whistles.

Niall ÓCallanáin: Bouzouki, Acoustic Guitar.

Paul O’Driscoll: Double & Fretless Bass.

Deiseal- The Long Long Note

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Le mystère des voix bulgares-Vol 3 (1990)

1. Sekoi Fali 
2. DVA Shopski Dueta 
3. Shope Shope 
4. Ghel Moma 
5. Zlato Mori 
6. Aychinko Pilia Chereno 
7. Yo Lgra Oro 
8. Sedi Moma 
9. Lzlei E Delio Haidutin 
10. Tri Shopski Pensi 
11.Devojko Mari Hubava 
12.Moma Voda Nossi 
13.Sedenkarska 
14. Altan Mara

Le mystère des voix bulgares- vol 3

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Le mystère des voix bulgares-Vol 2 (1987)

1.  The Flute Plays 

2. Get Up, My Daughter

3. Di-Li-Do 

4. More Zajeni Se Ghiouro

5. I'm Going To Buy You Some White Silk

6. The Fox Has Lost His Cubs 

7. You, Little Moon 

8. You, Little Roujke 

9. Dragana's Song 

10. Atmadja Duma Strachilu 

11. Teasing

12. Trenke, Todorke 

13. Young Childless Wife 

14. Confession

15. Teasing

16. If You Are Sleeping, Milke / Planina ,Stara Planina = (Mountain ,Old Mountain )

Le mystère des voix bulgares

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Le mystère des voix bulgares-Vol 1 (1975)

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Female Vocal Choir used to be known all over the world as The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir is an ensemble of rare artistic gift and enormous popular appeal.

The choir truly represents one of the most amazing success stories in music. Created in the early fifties the choir’s first mission was to record authentic and arranged music for multi-voice choral folk songs to be recorded and broadcast first on the radio and later on TV.

Marcel Cellier, Swiss music producer, discovers the beauty of Bulgarian folk songs, folk singers, their unique voices and choral skills and in 1975 releases his first album – Volume I which he called “Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares”(The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices). The album soon became a best seller. In 1987 was made Volume II which earned in 1990 to Marcel Cellier and this choir which is the main performer on the album, the American “Grammy Award”. It was at that time that the choir was called “Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares”.

The year 1988 was the beginning of the choir’s triumphant touring the world – five times in the USA and Canada, three times in Latin America, annual tours in most European countries, concerts in India, Hong Kong, etc. The CD named “Rituals” released by Nonesuch in 1994 was nominated for Grammy again in class “Folklore”. Warner Brothers also released Cellier’s volumes I, II, III(1990) with sales of more than a quarter of a million albums in USA and over a million internationally.

The singers transform sounds into strange vocal colours as if something other than human voice, perhaps some foreign instrument is playing. The singers “jubilate, shout, ornament, form fast and perfect glissandos, let one crazy rhythm follow another and make their voices built the most darling cords” and “suddenly a listener believes he has heard an archaic world of sounds from times long ago”, another sees “the marriage of the avant-garde and the Middle ages”.

1. Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Chante) 2:20
2. Svatba (La Noce) 1:26
3. Kalimankou Denkou (La Veillée) 5:06
4. Strati Na Angelaki Doumasche (Chant Haiduk) 2:37
5. Polegnala E Pschenitza (Chant De Moisson Thrace) 2:00
6. Messetschinko Lio Greilivko (Chant D'Amour Des Rhodopes) 2:30
7. Breï Yvane (Chanson A Danser) 1:28
8. Erghen Diado (Chanson De Schopsko Avec Tapan Et Cuillères) 2:48
9. Sableyalo Mi Agontze (L'Agneau Qui Bêle) 4:30
10. Prïtourïtze Planinata (Chant De La Plaine Thrace Av. Orch.) 2:44
11. Mir Stanke Le (Chant De Moisson Thrace Av. Orch.) 3:09
12. Schopska Pesen (Chant Diaphonique) 1:27
13. Polegnala E Todora (Chant D'Amour) 3:36

Le mystère des voix bulgares

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Gadalzen- Chromatophonies (2001)

Gadalzen est un groupe fondé par Jacob Fournel (Doolin’, Trio Gan-Ainm) et Pierre Rouch (Bouilleurs de sons, Mosaïca) à Toulouse en 1996. Ses membres viennent d’horizons musicaux très divers et leur rencontre produit une musique pour le moins inattendue. S’inscrivant dans la sphère de la culture occitane contemporaine, leur désir d’exploration musicale prend néanmoins le dessus sur toute autre considération. Marc Serafini est facteur d’accordéons, Pierre Rouch est facteur de cornemuses et de hautbois. Chacun exploite les possibilités de ces objets sonnants pour en faire sortir le meilleur. Ludovic T. Kierasinski (Anakronic Electro Orchestra, Le Bal Ouf) et Jacob Fournel se sont connus sur les bancs de l’université de musicologie à Toulouse ; Alem Alquier est graphiste et fait partie des Zooms Verts.

Bien que certains morceaux du répertoire de Gadalzen soient chantés, ce groupe se consacre de plus en plus à l’instrumentation, qui reste son moyen d’expression privilégié. Jazz, rock, folk-rock, metal, world, electro, musique classique… toute leur culture (y compris cinématographique !) peut émerger à tout moment de leur musique (même à celui où personne ne s’attend).

1. Bourrée du mineur

2. Quatrième R

3. Zat #2

4. Lo parpalhòl / borrèia de Lemosin

5. Retira-te

6. Castlekelly/glass of beer

7. Toulouse-Hecho : 4 heures

8. Nivola

9. Deltaplane

10. Captieux / picon bière

11. Abel & Caïn

12. Trignac 00018

Ludovic Tadeusz Kierasinski : guitare basse, basse fretless (3),
programmation (5), guimbardes (5), udu (5).
Jacob Fournel : tin-whistle, low-whistle, flûte harmonique (5), kess-kess (5)
Marc Sérafini : accordéon diatonique
Pierre Rouch : cornemuse gasconne
Alem Alquier : guitare, chant, oud (3 & 4), bouzouki (11)

Musiciens invités :
Josselin Fournel : bodhràn (5 & 6)
Jérôme Cotte : batterie (1)
Laurent Rochelle : clarinette basse (12)
Julien Brandwijk : batterie (12)

Gadalzen-Chromatophonies

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Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet (2008)

The Sparrow Quartet features the borderless sounds of two banjos, fiddle and cello, fronted by Abigail Washburn who has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “a daring, definite talent, whose feel for the folk idiom results in moving material. Soulful is the word.” The LA Times described her music saying, “Abigail Washburn stomped and skipped through fiery Appalachian takes on the local songs of Sichuan… She nails the dips and peaks of pitch while leading her band in scorching variations on simple, repetitive traditional melodies.”

1. Overture
2. A Fuller Wine
3. Strange Things
4. Great Big Wall in China
5. Taiyang chulai
6. Oh Me, Oh My
7. Captain
8. A Kazahk Melody
9. A Banjo Pickin' Girl
10. Sugar and Pie
11. Kangding Qingge / Old Timey Dance Party
12. It Ain't Easy
13. Journey Home

Abigail Washburn: Banjo & vocals.

Béla Fleck: Banjo.

Casey Driessen: Violin.

Ben Sollee: Cello.

Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet 

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Santiago Vazquez- Mbira y Pampa (2005)

Explorando en lo profundo de la tradición africana, Santiago Vazquez nos ofrece un disco de amable complejidad, que se presta tanto a una escucha distendida como al análisis exhaustivo, y que puede llevarnos a estados internos de introspección espiritual. 

La mbira es un instrumento africano de lenguas metálicas que tiene una sonoridad dulce y al mismo tiempo impura, debida  a las chapitas de gaseosa que resuenan con el movimiento del instrumento. Esta impureza en la sonoridad es, junto con la heterofonía de las composiciones , una característica de la música africana. La heterofonía es una textura musical poco escuchada en la música occidental, en la que diferentes líneas melódicas se alternan para ir formando una melodía resultante. Se trata, además, de un instrumento diatónico, es decir que utiliza solamente las notas de la escala, sin cromatismos. Su afinación es no temperada. Cada mbira tiene una sonoridad irrepetible, cuya riqueza armónica esta dada por el timbre particular del instrumento, relacionada con la forma única en la que están limadas sus lengüetas. 
Santiago utilizó en este disco la mbira dzavadzimu (“mbira de los espíritus”), originaria de Zimbabwe, que tiene una tradición de más de 1000 años de antigüedad y es utilizado en ceremonias rituales (durante las cuales los participantes suelen alcanzar estados de trance) para convocar a los espíritus de los ancestros. El rito de la mbira (llamado bira) guarda un gran parecido con los rituales del candomblé brasileño o el batá cubano.

[De http://www.clubdeldisco.com/resena/47_santiago-vazquez_mbira-y-pampa]

1. Entre los dedos (Nyamaropa)
2. Pampa
3. Amarillo
4. Navío
5. Mundos que se tocan
6. Luciérnaga
7. Caraguatá (Nyamaropa)
8. Cuna en gandanga
9. Volcancito dormido (Gandanga)
10. Entre los dedos (Gandanga)
11. Caraguata (Malabia)
12. Volcancito dormido (Nyamaropa)
13. Cuna de juncos
14. Cuna al amanecer 

Santiago Vazquez: mbira, mbira kushaura, mbira kutsinhira, bajo, bombo legüero, tambor de agua, semillas, hosho, caxixis, karkabas, crótalos, palmas, voces.

Santiago Vazquez- Mbira y Pampa

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Lúnasa- Lá Nua (2010)

Lúnasa celebrate the arrival of a new decade with Lá Nua (Irish for ‘new day’). After a 4-year hiatus from the studio, this highly-anticipated album came out of extensive rehearsal and recording on location in the beautiful Cooley mountains in the northeast of Ireland.  This environment, rich in the history and culture of ancient Ireland, inspired much of the creativity and new writing on the recording.

"Ryestraw" The New Day March/Ryestraw/An Old Woman Would.
"The Raven’s Rock" The Raven’s Rock/Ruby’s Reel/The Beehive.
"Tro Breizh" Tadin-Tinaketa/Marche des Charbonniers/Ridées Six Temps.
"Fruitmarket Reels " Joe Tom’s/Supernose/Buntata’s Sgadán.
"Doc Holliday's" East Village Days/Timmy’s Place/Doc Holliday’s.
"Unapproved Road" Brady’s/Connacht Heifers.
"Island Lake" Tune for Dad/The Island Lake.
"Snowball" Ciara’s Dance/Burning Snowball/Road to Reel.
"Pontevedra to Carcarosa" Marcha Processional du corpus de Pontevedra/Pasacorredoires ‘de Mustad a Millares’/Muniera Carcarosa.
"The Shore House" Inverness County Reel/The Beauty Spot/The Shore House Reel.

Seán Smyth: Fiddles and Whistles

Kevin Crawford: Flutes and Whistles

Trevor Hutchinson: Stand-up Bass

Cillian Vallely: Uilleann Pipes and Whistles

Paul Meehan: Guitar & Banjo

Lúnasa- Lá Nua

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Lau- Lightweights And Gentlemen (2006)

In 2004, sat around a kitchen table in Edinburgh, Lau took their first musical steps. Now, to have achieved so much, in so few years, is staggering. The warmth and excitement they generate with each new release, and at every gig, has culminated in armfuls of plaudits, including three consecutive years of being crowned 'Best Group' at theBBC Radio Two Folk Awards.

1. Hinba 2. Butcher Boy 3. Jigs 4. Results 5. Unquiet Grave 6. Souter Creek 7. Kris's 8. Freeborn Man 9. Moorhens 10. Gallowhill 11. Twa Stewarts

Aidan O'Rourke: Violín.

Kris Drever: Guitarra y voz.

Martin Green: Acordeón.

Lau- Ligthweights and Gentlemen

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Berrogüetto- Kosmogonias (2010)

Berrogüetto mezcla la pasión por la música tradicional gallega y la experimentación más contemporánea, estilo que les ha llevado a convertirse en una de las bandas más importantes de la escena world music. Kosmogonías, su último disco, nos lleva al punto de partida por excelencia, al Big- Bang, al triunfo de la materia sobre la antimateria. El grito inicial del universo que con su radiación llega hasta nosotros. Kosmogonías es una reflexión entre la humanidad y el universo, una llamada llena de optimismo hacia la consecución de un sistema de organización más justo… Berrogüetto se para y destaca todas aquellas voluntades colectivas o individuales que con sus gestos y actitudes trabajan para mejorar su entorno.

01. Alala da noite [4:34]
02. Astrea [2:18]
03. Igneominea [4:22]

04. Liridas de abril [4:20]
05. Planeta can [5:06]

06. Cantar de camiño [4:53]

07. Nadir [4:38]

08. Danza de meirol [4:23]
09. Ataque de jota [5:02]

10. Caneta de poeta [4:28]
11. Esfericantus [4:34]

Anxo Pintos: Zanfona, gaita, saxo soprano, violín y teclados.
Guillerme Fernández: Guitarras.
Isaac Palacín: Percusión.
Quico Comesaña: Bouzouki, mandolina y arpa.
Quim Farinha: Violín y nickelharpa.
Santiago Cribeiro: Acordeón y teclados.
Xabier Díaz: Voz, gaita y percusión.

Berrogüetto-Kosmogonías
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Flook-Flook! Live! (1996)

Flook has always been celebrated for their organic, fluid and brilliantly innovative all-acoustic fusion of Irish folklore with modern and trans-national rhythms. What really makes them extraordinary, however, is the way their sound emerges from a sixth sense, allowing band members to communicate on a subliminal level. There is an uncanny interplay between the players; each seems to respond not only to what is presently being heard but also to as-yet-unvoiced impulses. Even when performing sets they have interpreted many times before, inspiration leaps between them like multi-hued tongues of flame and long-familiar tunes become utterly transformed, fresh and new.

Sarah Allen: Flute, Accordion.
Ed Boyd: Guitar, Bouzouki.
Brian Finnegan: Flute, Whistle.
Michael McGoldrick: Flute, Whistle.

Flook Live!

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Comas (2005)

Formada en 2003, Comas reúne integrantes de agrupaciones tales como he Drovers, Orion, Gwazigan Urbantrad, Denez Prigent. Si bien tiene una base profunda en la música irlandesa, Comas recibe influencias de otros géneros y otras regiones del mundo. Realmente recomendable!

1 Tom Ginley's/The Rub/Fisherstreet Reel 
2 Sylvain Barou's Polkas/Peter Ostraska's Jig
3 Causeway
4 The Funky Spider/The Cock and the Hen/Out on the Edge
5 Iris
6 East Link/JJ's Cockroach
7 Cailin Deas Cruite na mBo/Nele's Nutcake
8 James Kelly's/Brendan McGlinchey's/Karen Tweed's
9 The Rambling Irishman/Plevin Jig
10 Natural Progression/Borat's Waltz/Welcome to Shetland/Punch in the Dark




Aidan Burke: fiddle.
Sylvain Barou: uilleann pipes, wooden flutes, low whistles .
Philip Masure: guitare, vocals.
Jackie Moran: bodhran, various percussion & vocals.






Comas
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Snaarmaarwaar (Bélgica, 2009)

Le groupe Snaarmaarwaar, révélation de l’année 2008, est de loin le plus original de la nouvelle génération  du folk. Ces jeunes s’intéressent  aussi bien à des morceaux de chez eux qu’à leurs propres compositions et tout ceci seulement en jouant des instruments à cordes. Une fois que la guitare, la mandoline et la mandole sont lancées, il devient très difficile de les arrêter.

Bien qu’il s’agisse d’une combinaison d’ instruments limitée, les musiciens arrivent quand même à vous proposer un son imposant. Dans leur musique, on entend les échos du Fado Portugais, du Bluegrass, des sessions Irlandaises et des atmosphères italiennes. Le vrai secret de Snaarmaarwaar se trouve dans le mariage parfait de douceur poétique  et d’énergie indomptable.

1. Kadril van Mechelen / Colonne de la Gavre
2. Vappu
3. Bourrée de Montserrat
4. Hanter dro / Dance to your daddy
5. Stone's house / Muller's
6. Waterman's
7. Valse sanssoucis
8. Slekkepolka
9. Noir et blanc
10. Pentland
11. Bodabourrée / Faï bon dançar
12. Architek
13. De Warmwaterkruik

Jerden Geerinck: guitar, philicorda(6), programming / keyboards
Maarten Decombel: mandola, lapsteel(4), harmonium(2), vocals(4)
Peter-Jan Daems: mandolin

guests:
Tine Allegaert: trumpet
Jana Van Camp: tuba
Baptiste Argouarc`h: fiddle
Patrick Michiels: bodhrán
Fons Vanhamel: double bass
Michael Horgan: low whistle




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