Whistle music?

[whistlin'fool]

Hey all i've been trying to find some music where the whistle plays a key role in the album. One band i've heard of is Flook, although i haven't purchased anything yet. I was just looking for ideas so i don't waste money on albums that aren't what i'm looking for. Mostly looking for interesting music, not just traditional irish or reels and jigs, but those would be nice too. I bought one CD thinking it would be good titled "Irish Music" and it ended up being just pub songs even though on the back of the album there was a whistler listed as instrumentalists. Thanks for any recomendations.

[Unseen122]

How about some trad reels and jigs from Mary Bergin, who has two albums out one called "Feadoga Stain" and the other called "Feadoga Stain 2." Joanie Madden is good also she has two albums called "Song of the Irish Whsitle" volumes 1 and 2.

As for non trad, I have heard Phil Hardy's album is good, although that is Low Whistle (and so is Flook). Michael McGoldrick has two solo albums with some Low Whistle tracks they are called "Fused" and "Wired." Those are two of my favorite albums.

[Frederik Meesters]

check out the CD section of the Kerrywhistles site:

http://kerrywhistles.com/music.php

and also the movie section

Here you can also download some nice whistle music:

http://www.tonydixonmusic.co.uk/listen/index.html


Cormac Breatnach has a beautiful CD with only whistle and guitar - it's one of my favourites

[whistlin'fool]

hey thanks for the recomendations. I'll make sure to check them all out.

[seananfheadog]

Hi Whisteling fool,

John McSherry and Donal O'Connor's new album Tripswitch features some excellent low whisteling quite prominently. You can check out some clips on http://www.atfirstlight.net.

There's a great young whistler from Dublin called Gavin Whelan also worth giving a listen to.

I believe Deiseal are reforming this year for some concerts wonderful whisteling from Cormac Breathnach.

Good luck

J

[Wynder]

Be sure to check out Solas: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 ... nce&n=5174

There's some music samples there -- great band.

[Tristan]

For some ideas falling a bit (or a lot) outside the trad circle:

The "Master and Commander" soundtrack has several whistle-laden tracks and ranges from trad dance tunes to dramatic typical movie-score type tracks to pure classical violin/cello duets.

If you dig low whistles and pipes, check out Davy Spillane. I have his "Sea of Dreams" and "Pipedreams" albums. I'm no good at describing non-obvious musical genres, but I'd say new-wave/jazz with just a pinch of trad sound (mostly just because you can't avoid having a trad sound if you're playing low whistles and uilleann pipes!)

Similar to Spillane (low whistles and pipes) but more traditional would be Eoin Duignan from Dingle (http://www.duigo.com). I like his stuff a lot as well.

Of course, you already mentioned Flook, but they're probably my current favorite group, so I'd strongly recommend them as well. I'd probably steer you towards their second album (Rubai) if you're going to pick just one, but all three are excellent.

[Meadhbh]

This is one of my favorite places to look for new music http://www.cdbaby.com/
Many of the sound clips/sample songs for the albums are about 2 minutes in duration...so you can get a fairly good idea of what to expect when you order. The last two CDs I got from this site were AN DOCHAS: dragonfly
and SIúCRA: here among strangers.

[Fingers]

As Seaninfeadog said

Cormac Breatnach plays all whistle with the band DEISEIL (I hope I've spelt that right), He also has a few solo albums out, one of them is called "Musical Journey"

Also Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry's 'At first light'

Brian Finnegan - "When the party's over'

[Cynth]

For traditional Irish music:
http://www.bridodonohue.com/

You can go to her website. Then on the right hand side of the home page you can click on the name of this recording. That will take you to a page with the track listings. If you scroll all the way to the bottom you can hear some clips from her CD. I ordered mine right through the website and it worked out well. She even included a little note! But you can get it from many places I'm sure.

Also for traditional Irish:

http://www.pennywhistle.com/micho.html
You can scroll down just a bit and you'll see where you can listen to some clips of this CD. I had a hard time finding any clips of it. They are nice. You can buy it from that place or any number of others.


For non-traditional, I only know of the band Flook with Brian Finnegan on whistle, who's been mentioned. I've seen them twice in concert now, and although I'm one who likes the old time music best, I think everyone in the band is extremely talented. They are very highly respected. Here's their website, you can hear some clips there. I'm not familiar with their CD's, so I couldn't recommend one over another, oh, but I just noticed that Tristan has.

http://www.flook.co.uk/home.html



Okay, this is straying from your main interest a bit but I'll just mention it.
This is a traditional Irish music CD. Most of the tunes are duets with fiddle and Uilleann pipes. There are a couple ravishing, in my opinion, high whistle duets. I cannot, however, remember which tunes those are and I can't tell from the track list. You can go to the website and listen to clips from some, but not all, the tracks. If you feel like expanding your listening a bit, this would be a nice CD to do that with.

http://www.kittylieover.com/tracklist.htm

[shadoe42]

Lunasa does quite a bit of whistle work.

Also the two Feadoga Stain albums can be downloaded from emusic. Thier fees are quite decent.

[Ostekjeks]

Capercaillie is my absolute favourite band. You'll find a lot of great whistle playing in their albums.