November 2009 RELEASES
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Pride Of New York Folk / COM4522 Compass - $A28.30 
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The Pride of New York is a new Irish-American supergroup comprised of some of the best known players. Many of the tunes on the album are written or associated with other past or present stalwarts of the New York Irish scene including Martin Mulhaire, Sean McGlynn and Paddy O`Brien. |
Hello Stranger Folk / COM4517 Compass - $A28.30
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When the singer-songwriter movement boomed in the mid-1990`s, Catie Curtis was at its` core. With a 15 year career, her songs have appeared in numerous television shows including Grey`s Anatomy and Alias and she was honoured to be selected to perform at the Obama inauguration. Recorded in Nashville, this album is a collection of stripped down versions of her classic songs as well as a few choice covers. The resulting album is reminiscent of Steve Earle's ``Train A Comin` project in its` intimacy, and shows a side of Curtis` musical persona never before captured on CD. |
Murmichan Folk / SHOOGLE09010 Shoogle Records - $A37.50
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The first disc was recorded ``live`` in the studio with minimal overdubbing, and features a lot of the material they have developed in performance over the past year. The second disc has differently titled experimental studio remixes of tracks from disc one (including two by DJ Dolphin Boy), along with their collaboration with Ensemble Kaboul at Celtic Connections in January, and live recordings of four more new tunes. They tackle all of the music in their usual energised, rhythmically charged and cheerfully eclectic fashion |
Music From Sliabh Luachra (re-issue) Folk / TSCD358 Topic - $A30.10
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Released in 1977, Jackie Daly`s remarkable debut of music from the Sliabh Luachra, the mountainous border between Cork and Kerry, has long been recognised as an important landmark recording. It captured Daly at the peak of his powers and helped to re-establish the accordion as an important instrument in Irish music. From this impressive beginning, Jackie went on to play with the cream of Ireland`s musicians in such seminal groups as De Danann and Patrick Street and build a reputation as the Irish button accordion player - in other words the best in the world. |
Ballads And Broadsides (re-issue) Folk / TSCD128 Topic - $A30.10
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A dynamic singer of great individuality and integrity, Louis Killen is one of the most widely influential musicians of the folk revival and a key voice of English traditional song. Louis Killen is a hard-core, unadulterated folksinger whose passionate delivery is matched by a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of the songs and the working people who made them. Born in Gateshead in Co. Durham, he was noted for his love of sea songs, as well as the industrial and rural folk songs of his native North East of England. Released in 1965, Ballads and Broadsides was the first full album by a solo folk singer and was, and still is, hugely influential. A great album full of great performances it was, sadly, to be the only album he recorded for Topic Records as he left Britain within a couple of years for a new life in the USA. |
Strange Communion Folk / FCCD117 Fruitcake - $A30.10
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A Christmas album from UK`s cleverest singer songwriter. Not a good thought but wait until you hear the songs on this album! Thea Gilmore`s take on the mood, the feelings, the characters and the atmosphere around Christmas would never be as you would expect a Christmas album to be.From the wry pop classic and future Christmas standard `That`ll be Christmas’ to the hauntingly beautiful `Sol Invictus`, Strange Communion captures the emotions of the Christmas experience for everyone. |
Saints & Scoundrels Folk / DLCD36 Daisy Label - $A30.10
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After the major quadruple-platinum selling success of her last album The Galway Girl and her numerous awards, one of Ireland`s national treasures Sharon Shannon releases a brand new studio album. Includes several newly penned tracks by the accordion maestro herself and boasts a hoard of special guests including Shane McGowan, Imelda May, Justin Adams plus the first ever reunion of the Waterboys on the track Saint`s and Angels |
UAM Folk / SPIT038 Spit & Polsh - $A28.30
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The much anticipated third album from Julie, UAM meaning From Me in Scottish Gaelic. Featuring husband and album co-producer Eamon Doorly on bouzouki plus a first class band line-up the songs, some old, some new come from across the Highlands, Islands and Ireland. Highlights to this album include duets with Eddi Reader and renowned Gaelic singer Mary Smith. |
In The Shadow Of Mountains Folk / NOE02 NOE - $A30.10
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Critically acclaimed for her mesmerising singing and fiddle performances, Bella Hardy releases her eagerly awaited second solo album In The Shadow of Mountains. In 2007, Bella Hardy rose to become one of the shining lights of the folk scene, famed for entwining her hypnotic voice with her own fiddle accompaniment to breathtaking effect. This album, self produced and uncompromising, is a collection of unique and stirring interpretations of traditional songs, and compelling. |
In My Life Folk / LFM006 Le Faux Music - $A30.10
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Gina Le Faux is one of the greatest fiddle/viola/mandolin players on the British folk/roots music scene. She is also an exceptional singer and interpreter of songs old and new. Her performances have been described as ``White Soul`` and her guitar playing as ``Spellbinding``. Gina has worked with most of the folk scene`s legendary performers including John Kirkpatrick, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson and Dick Gaughan. Guests on her album include Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Hugh Bradley and Keith Angel. |
Cogs, Wheels And Lovers Folk / PRKCD106 Park - $A28.30
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Steeleye Span is one of the great stories in rock music. 2009 has seen them celebrate an incredible forty years together by heading out to play live, first in the USA and then Australia before returning to the UK. At a point when most bands are happy to settle down to rehash past glories, Steeleye Span have pushed on with a succession of acclaimed albums, each seeing them re-define their classic sound. 2009 is no exception, with the release of their 21st studio album, typically sees them buck their own trend and go back to their roots; the interpretation of traditional song. |
If It Wasn`t for the Irish and the Jews Folk / COM4525 Compass - $A28.30
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Musician, singer, anthropologist and musical historian Mick Moloney celebrates the joyous and creative era in American popular song from the early 1890`s to the end of vaudeville and the start of the Great Depression on his new release. Each of the albums 14 tracks is notable for having been created in a collaboration between Irish and Jewish lyricists and composers. Equally qualified as a musician and anthropologist, Mick Moloney brings the perfect balance of historical insight and musical relevance to these songs. |
