Yes, yes on Donncha O'Briain!
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Here's Donncha O'Briain, playing the Maple Leaf and Man of Aran, which are the first two tunes on his album. Recorded live at the Willie Clancy Summer School in 1983 by a friend of mine from France.
http://www.firescribble.net/Donncha.mp3
Man of Aran was composed by Darach de Brun.
http://www.firescribble.net/Donncha.mp3
Man of Aran was composed by Darach de Brun.
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Thanks for sharing the tune, Brad. Makes my heart soar.bradhurley wrote:Here's Donncha O'Briain, playing the Maple Leaf and Man of Aran, which are the first two tunes on his album. Recorded live at the Willie Clancy Summer School in 1983 by a friend of mine from France.
http://www.firescribble.net/Donncha.mp3
Man of Aran was composed by Darach de Brun.
Will O'Ban
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
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+1Flywhistler wrote:tin whistles,Paddy Moloney and Sean Potts, Feadoga Stain 1 and 2, Mary Bergin
Also Flook - Rubai!
If we're talking non-specialist albums that happen to have a lot of whistle on them, I'd have to nominate Kevin Crawford, "In Good Company" solely on the basis of track 16.
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Doing it backwards since 2005.
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Reading through this thread I wanted to let out a blood-curdling scream .....
But I don't want to startle the horses so I'll just say what is bugging me without sound effects.
Dale asked us to vote for our favourite whistle CDs with, as I understood, a view to listing the most popular and we get nothing but Irish or Irish-based middle of the road suggestions. To read this list, you'd not know that kwela even existed, let alone that it was the most commercially popular whistle music recorded. What on earth is going on here? Are we aiming to come across as narrow-minded and pig ignorant?
Loren mentioned early on that it might be a good idea to separate low and high whistle lists. I think having separate lists for different styles might be a good idea.
It all depends on what Dale's purpose is. If all Dale wants is to give a list that tells the world who we, as a group, are based on a strictly democratic voting process then, when voting closes, the results will indeed reflect who we are. If, on the other hand, the main idea is to direct new whistle players to the indispensable whistle records, then we should either break the suggestions down into categories, which might be really useful, or weight votes according to how popular with the membership a CDs genre is. One thing I noticed was that even pure drop ITM was being swamped with modern band and MOR proposals but there would surely be something seriously wrong with a list intended to educate that excluded Willie Clancy simply because he's a little too pure drop for the crowd at large.
I don't know how many categories there should be. I certainly don't think the number of CDs listed in each category need be the same; there simply aren't enough reissue kwela CDs to warrant a list as long as modern Irish band recordings, quite apart from the question of popularity. But a list of essential whistle recordings that didn't include at least two kwela CDs would be deeply unworthy in my opinion. (I can also see some of the best pure drop ITM recordings dropping off the bottom of the list too.) If you look into the tastes of people who post here regularly, they run much deeper and broader than this list suggests.
But I don't want to startle the horses so I'll just say what is bugging me without sound effects.
Dale asked us to vote for our favourite whistle CDs with, as I understood, a view to listing the most popular and we get nothing but Irish or Irish-based middle of the road suggestions. To read this list, you'd not know that kwela even existed, let alone that it was the most commercially popular whistle music recorded. What on earth is going on here? Are we aiming to come across as narrow-minded and pig ignorant?
Loren mentioned early on that it might be a good idea to separate low and high whistle lists. I think having separate lists for different styles might be a good idea.
It all depends on what Dale's purpose is. If all Dale wants is to give a list that tells the world who we, as a group, are based on a strictly democratic voting process then, when voting closes, the results will indeed reflect who we are. If, on the other hand, the main idea is to direct new whistle players to the indispensable whistle records, then we should either break the suggestions down into categories, which might be really useful, or weight votes according to how popular with the membership a CDs genre is. One thing I noticed was that even pure drop ITM was being swamped with modern band and MOR proposals but there would surely be something seriously wrong with a list intended to educate that excluded Willie Clancy simply because he's a little too pure drop for the crowd at large.
I don't know how many categories there should be. I certainly don't think the number of CDs listed in each category need be the same; there simply aren't enough reissue kwela CDs to warrant a list as long as modern Irish band recordings, quite apart from the question of popularity. But a list of essential whistle recordings that didn't include at least two kwela CDs would be deeply unworthy in my opinion. (I can also see some of the best pure drop ITM recordings dropping off the bottom of the list too.) If you look into the tastes of people who post here regularly, they run much deeper and broader than this list suggests.
