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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Deochannaí agus Amharclann areir aríst

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Scríobh mé faoi deireanach de reir ag dul amach leis Léna ag cur "deochannaí agus amharclann." Bhuel, d'imigh muidsa aríst ar...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Brook Wilensky-Lanford's "Paradise Lust": Book Review

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Wanderlust may have been one curse for Adam and Eve, expelled from Eden. In this survey of modern exiles, their yearning to go back to the...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mekons' "Ancient & Modern": Music Review

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This starts, the subtitle tells us, in 1911. Edwardian hopes emerge from the tinkling and creaking sounds opening "Warm Summer Sun...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Márta Sebéstyen's "I Can See the Gates of Heaven": Music Review

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She's one of my favorite singers. Her work with Muzsikás, the Hungarian folk ensemble, and her soundtrack and world music collaboration...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Willie Clancy's "The Gold Ring": Music Review

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"Uilleann piping from Co Clare," this features a champion player of traditional Irish music's most challenging instrument. Th...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

"Altan: 25th Anniversary Celebration": Music Review

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Earlier reviews at Amazon US have been tepid. I admit this collaboration's not the way I prefer hearing Altan. I heard Mairéad play wit...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Téada's "Ceol & Cuimhne": Music Review

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Téada in Irish means strings, ceol music, and cuimhne memory. These three words sum them up: they play traditional sounds, they express t...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Solas "The Turning Tide": Music Review

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This veteran Irish American band merges traditional with folk tunes. Fourteen years on, they provide consistent, accessible interpretations...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Deochannaí agus Amharclann

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Bhí muid ag dul Amharclann Bhean Sí an deireadh coicís ó shín. Is maith linn ag imríonn ansin anois, mar sin bhí Léna agus mé ábalta ól in a...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Oneida's "Absolute II": Music Review

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This send-off into the vacuum realm above completes the Thank Your Parents trilogy begun three years ago with Teenage Weaponry, three long...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Feelies' "Here Before": Music Review

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Great textures, not a weak track, excellent production by Bill Million & Glenn Mercer. This will grow on me. I tend to be cautious about...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Faust's "Something Dirty": Music Review

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If Pete Frame drew a family tree of this experimental band, founded in 1971 in Germany, he’d face a challenge. The newest ...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Darker My Love's "Alive as You Are": Music Review

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As with the psychedelic movement’s drift away from density among many of its original hitmakers, so with its followers. The back-to-the-coun...
Friday, August 5, 2011

The Horror The Horror: "Wilderness": Music Review

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New York: 10 years after or 30? If you want to revive the sounds of that city's new-wave clubbers of the late 70s and early 80s, foll...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

White Hills' "Hp-1": Music Review

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Combining stoner steadiness with spacious soaring, this compresses vocals to a growl. This enigmatic trio expands guitar effects and percus...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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