A mixed bag, I'd say...overall it doesn't live up to its potential although there are some great tracks. Despite the title it doesn't have the same fire as the Molloy/Keane album.monkey587 wrote:How's that CD of Molloy, Keane, and O'Flynn?
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Re: O'Murchu
Yeah, I like it and the second one too!cocusflute wrote:I prefer O'Murchu's first CD.
Doesn't anybody listen to the divine MM anymore?
MM's great
Yes, yes, yes... No further comment necessary.bradhurley wrote:I think it's popular now for people to dismiss MM (Matt Molloy), but really he's essential listening if you're looking to see "what is possible with the Irish flute." His first album (the black album) titled simply "Matt Molloy" is a classic and is just flute and bouzouki. His second one, "The Heathery Breeze" is equally brilliant, and the other essential one in my opinion is the recording he did with Sean Keane, "Contentment is Wealth." His style has spawned hundreds of imitators, but it's worth going back and listening to him as a reference to get the real thing. People will still be listening to Molloy 100 years from now, no doubt.
Kevin Crawford's "In Good Company" etc....There are many others to recommend...if you do a search or browse through this forum you'll find other threads here where people have mentioned their favorite flute players and recordings.
Also if you want to go further afield to see what can be done with the "Irish flute," get any of Jean-Michel Veillon's recordings.
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Question: Does anyone else think it would be more than a little helpful to have a "CD Recommendation" Sticky thread? This subject comes up fairly often, and there's so much good stuff out there, and more being produced monthly, that inevtably mention of some really good recordings are left out each time the subject comes up. Would be nice to have one thread at the top, for instant access and as a place to add new recommendations.
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P.S. How come the UP forum's instrument picture thread is sticky and ours isn't? Bad enough we had to suffer a name change to that thread......
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P.S. How come the UP forum's instrument picture thread is sticky and ours isn't? Bad enough we had to suffer a name change to that thread......
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Actually that's James Cullinan (fiddle) who along with his wife Carol (piano) played with PJ Crotty on that CD, called "Happy to Meet". I agree that it's a great one. PJ Crotty sadly died much too young only a couple years after this one was done.monkey587 wrote: I ended up with PJ Crotty's CD with Tom Cullinan instead, which I'd recommend here.
Another great album along these same lines (great fiddle and flute duet, nice Clare tunes) is Peadar O Loughlinn and Maeve Donnelly's "The Thing Itself". Peadar is still playing great, last I heard, at 80 or thereabouts. I should only wish to play half as well as him at my own age (52), much less at his!
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Sorry about the name slipup, I just realized that I mixed him up with someone I knew as a kid with a similar name.johnkerr wrote:Actually that's James Cullinan (fiddle) who along with his wife Carol (piano) played with PJ Crotty on that CD, called "Happy to Meet". I agree that it's a great one. PJ Crotty sadly died much too young only a couple years after this one was done.monkey587 wrote: I ended up with PJ Crotty's CD with Tom Cullinan instead, which I'd recommend here.
Another great album along these same lines (great fiddle and flute duet, nice Clare tunes) is Peadar O Loughlinn and Maeve Donnelly's "The Thing Itself". Peadar is still playing great, last I heard, at 80 or thereabouts. I should only wish to play half as well as him at my own age (52), much less at his!
I'll second the recommendation for "The Thing Itself."
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Re: O'Murchu
Oh, My, Marilyn. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw "MM"Denny wrote:I didn't even know she played flute...cocusflute wrote:I prefer O'Murchu's first CD.
Doesn't anybody listen to the divine MM anymore?
She is such an icon for me.
I buy a calendar each year, just for me.
Thanks for the pic.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet:
The style of flute playing is really quite different from a lot of flute playing you can buy today. While Sligo music isn't always my favourite kind of Irish music, I don't think I can find a commercially available flute recording that is to me as strong as this.
The style of flute playing is really quite different from a lot of flute playing you can buy today. While Sligo music isn't always my favourite kind of Irish music, I don't think I can find a commercially available flute recording that is to me as strong as this.
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Oh yeah man, that's a good one.Eldarion wrote:I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet:
The style of flute playing is really quite different from a lot of flute playing you can buy today. While Sligo music isn't always my favourite kind of Irish music, I don't think I can find a commercially available flute recording that is to me as strong as this.
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Brad where can I get my hands on Matt Molloy's first album? I remember seeing on here the cover for it (some kind of controversy over the cover changing due to the lip plate on his flute being painted black when it was silver), am I correct?bradhurley wrote:His first album (the black album) titled simply "Matt Molloy" is a classic and is just flute and bouzouki.
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Good question (and actually the controversy turned out to be due to it being a different photograph, not the same photograph being retouched. For some reason a new photo was taken for the CD version).michael_coleman wrote:Brad where can I get my hands on Matt Molloy's first album? I remember seeing on here the cover for it (some kind of controversy over the cover changing due to the lip plate on his flute being painted black when it was silver), am I correct?
Green Linnet reissued that album on CD some years back but it's no longer available on their website (I suspect they lost or sold the rights to all the Mulligan albums, as they don't have the Bothy Band albums on their site either). Some of MM's albums are now available on the iTunes Music Store (including Contentment is Wealth and The Heathery Breeze), but not the first one.
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