slow haunting tunes not itm

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:19 am

does anybody have any suggestions for some slow haunting tunes that arent irish traditional ?

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:59 am

Here's a "slow haunter" called She Said No (1.1 megabyte MP3 file), which I think of as more of a Scottish-inspired tune than an Irish one...I composed it around 1987 when I was spending some time around Skye and the western Highlands. I didn't have a name for it at first, but when I played it for Chris Abell (the whistle and flute maker), he said "it sounds like she said no," and so I thought, fine, there's the title!

This recording was made about 10 years later at the home of Tommy Byrnes in Massachusetts. Tommy added the obligatory "Celtic Mist" synthesizer sounds and stuck a mic out the window to catch a thunderstorm that happened to be passing by that evening as we were recording. The tapping sounds you hear are water dropping onto the tin roof of a toolshed out in his yard; you can also hear robins singing and calling from time to time.

Total Celtic schmaltz, but I do like the tune and play it every now and then.

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:56 am

Pibroch. Some of them would fit on a low whistle nicely.

John F. · Post by **John F.** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:04 am

Brad--

Today is my birthday, and it's a glorious morning here in California. Your song was the first thing I sat down and listened to. Thank you for that! (Schmaltz can be a good thing!)

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:06 am

John F. wrote:Brad--

Today is my birthday, and it's a glorious morning here in California. Your song was the first thing I sat down and listened to. Thank you for that! (Schmaltz can be a good thing!)

Well thanks, and by coincidence it happens to be my birthday today too, so happy birthday to us (and to Virginia Woolf, Robert Burns, and Somerset Maugham)!

jim stone · Post by **jim stone** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:15 am

'She moved through the fair' isn't Irish, I think.

'The Water is Wide'

Scarbourough Fair

Way Haul Away-- Sea Chanty
(when I was a little boy, or so my mother told me,
that if I did not kiss the girls my lips would
get all moldy)

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:37 am

A wonderfully happy birthday to you guys!

Philo

michael_coleman · Post by **michael_coleman** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:48 am

Very nice playing...very relaxing...very haunting.

I think The Bunny Hat is very haunting if played at half speed.

tim-hart · Post by **tim-hart** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:08 pm

Lovely piece. Nicely played.

Silvano · Post by **Silvano** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:31 pm

tim-hart wrote:Lovely piece. Nicely played.

I totally agree!
Congrats Brad! Don't be so hard with yourself, everyone needs that "schmalz" from time to time.

Silvano

phoebe · Post by **phoebe** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:50 pm

That was lovely. IMHO, "she" must have been crazy.

WhistlinBob · Post by **WhistlinBob** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:52 pm

Very nice

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:58 pm

phoebe wrote:That was lovely. IMHO, "she" must have been crazy.

Well the thing is, I asked her very politely to go jump off a cliff, and she said no! ('8)')

Seriously, there was no "she" in the picture as far as I remember. It's just that when I played it, Chris (Abell) said, "it sounds like she said no."

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:15 pm

Total Celtic schmaltz, but I do like the tune and play it every now and then.

That was lovely! Schmaltz or not, that is a lovely tune and very well played.

Maybe there's a place for the rare-to-occasional bit of Celtic schmaltz? (particularly if more of it sounded this good!)

--James

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:58 pm

Happy birthday, gents!

I think I've commented on Brad's tune elsewhere on the board but I certainly don't mind repeating myself on this subject: beautiful.

Carol

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