Go get this CD! "Farewell to Evening Dances"

Tradman · Post by **Tradman** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:54 pm

Today I stayed home from work, feeling bad this morning upon wake up. I didnt realize that the Cd I just ordered on Monday would be here this soon, and to my great delight, this Cd from Colm O'Donnell arrived.

MAN!!! It is so good. I cant get over how lovely each and every track is, and it's got 18 tracks on it. Just now finished listening to it for the second time, and it had many, many tunes Ive never heard. For a sample, go to amazon and look it up. There's also a review posted there by Jessie K.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:59 pm

Oh man, Colm O'Donnell is a genius. Beautiful sound too. One of my favourites. Also check his track in the "Celtic Mouth Music" CD.

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 2:16 pm

This is probably my favorite CD.

herbivore12 · Post by **herbivore12** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 3:13 pm

I like this CD, too. My only complaint is the production; I think it'd be better if the sound were a bit more raw, and less reverb-y. The songs and tunes are great, though.

MurphyStout · Post by **MurphyStout** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:39 pm

Just out of curiosity Eric, what other flute cds do you own?

herbivore12 · Post by **herbivore12** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 6:48 pm

Colm's CD is a fine thing.

However, for pure ballsiness and technique, my favorites of late have been Conal O'Grada's "Top of Coom" and Harry Bradley's two solo albums. Much more straight-ahead, ripping stuff, to my mind. I listen to Colm's album late at night, when in a sleepy, contemplative mood (which is not a bad thing). Bradley and O'Grada? Those guys'd keep me up nights, if I listened to them too late!

Paul McGrattan is a good name to watch for, too. Fine player. And Tansey, too. Lots of good stuff out there, thankfully.

Still, Colm's is a worthy album. I'd still like to hear him without all the reverb and stuff, though.

But how 'bout that bodhran song? That's a fun bit, eh?

--Aaron

Tradman · Post by **Tradman** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:32 pm

MurphyStout wrote:Just out of curiosity Eric, what other flute cds do you own?

Unfortunately, not the one your looking for, but here's a stab at it:

Capercaillie- From Dusk Till Dawn
Capercaillie-Live in Concert
Michael McGoldrick-Morning Rory
Michael McGoldrick-At First Light
Michael McGoldrick-Fused
Michael McGoldrick-Twice Live with Ed Boyd (private recording)
Kevin Crawford-‘D’ Flute Album
Kevin Crawford-In Good Company
Lunasa-“The Live Album”
Lunasa-Otherworld
Lunasa-Merry Sisters of Fate
Lunasa-Redwood from Green Linnet
Lunasa-Redwood from The lad’s website, the ‘Official Album’
Lunasa-Live in a D.C. pub
Cruise's Pub-County Clare, Ireland (private recording)
Cillian and Niall Valley-Callanbridge
Conal O'Grada-Top of the Coom
Danu
Danu-Think Before You Think
Danu-All Things Considered
Matt Malloy-Shadows on Stone
Matt Malloy-Contentment is Wealth
Matt Malloy-Live at Matt Molloy’s (on backorder right now)
Matt Malloy and Donal Lunny
Colm O’Donell-Farewell Evening Dances
Chieftains-Down the Old Plank Road
Chieftains-Water from the Well
Chieftains-An Irish Evening-Live at the Belfast Opera House
Chieftains-Live in Gainesville, FL. I & II
Chietains -Chieftains 9-Boil the Breakfast Early
Larsen and League-The Green House
Old Blind Dogs-Fit?
Brian Dennehey and Todd Denman-Like Magic
Ashley McIassac-Hi How Are You Today?
Leahy
Leahy-Lakefield
Solas
Solas-The Words that Remain
Seamus Eagan-When Juniper Sleeps
Seamus Eagan/O'Donnell/Moloney-3 Way Street
Seamus Eagan-Week in January
Turlach Boylan-Shame the Devil
Jim and John Cohen-Traditional music of Ireland
John Williams-Steam
Donal Lunny-Coolfin
Paddy Keenan-Live somewhere (private I think)
Christy Moore-Live on Vickar Street
Laurence Nugent-Tradional Music on Flute and Whistle
Laurence Nugent-The Windy Gap
Marcus O’Murchu- O’ Bheal go Beal
Paddy Carty-Traditional Irish Music
Waking Ned Devine
Flutes Galore-Various Compilation
Joe McKenna- The Low Whistle
Washington Irish Folk Festival Live-I, II, III, IV (private recording)
Sean Tyrell and Tommy Peoples-Live in a NY Pub (private recording)
Heart of the Gaels- Compilation
Brave Hearts-Compilation
Afro Celt Sound System-Volume Three, Further in Time

Currently I have them all catalogued since I like to be able to use the "Find Feature" of MS Word to see if I have a tune on record or not.

Eldarion · Post by **Eldarion** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 7:32 pm

I've heard this album and would definitely prefer it without the reverb thats for sure. There's some very nice singing and lilting on it though, and thats the highlight of the album for me.

pmcallis · Post by **pmcallis** » Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:55 pm

I hate to agree with Jessie but she's right....again :roll:

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:59 am

You can hear a few more tracks of Colm O'Donnell's playing, without the reverb, on The Mountain Road, an excellent sampler of traditional musicians from South Sligo:

http://celticgrooves.homestead.com/CG_V ... _Road.html

This is probably closer to what his flute actually sounds like. I think he has a duet on there with his brother as well...I can't check at the moment as there's someone sleeping in the room where all my CDs are stored.

JessieK · Post by **JessieK** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:18 am

pmcallis wrote:I hate to agree with Jessie

That's unfortunate.

maracirac · Post by **maracirac** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 8:04 am

i just want to add one more excellent cd with colm involved on it. it is with group erne:traditional irish music. other members are cathal hayden, jim mcgrath,gerry o'donnel and tommy o'sullivan. his solo version of paddy rambles in the park ( or through the park) is gorgeous ( i preffer his version more than mcgratton version on his last cd.) and lot good sets, and singing from colm!
one correction: on the mountain road cd is only one track with colm, jig the besom in bloom with seamus quinn on piano.
second correction:tradman, on your list of cd's you misspell ( as brian i think) name of my good friend bill ( wiliam) dennehy, fiddler from san francisco.his album with piper tod dennman is great, althought not so known.
sorry for those corections, marin

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 8:25 am

Right you are, Colm appears on one track on The Mountain Road, and his brother Seamus on another. I knew they were both on there, but thought they were playing together....I must be confusing that with a track on Farewell to Evening Dances.

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