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"One of the hottest, most electrifying bands in Irish music today". – THE IRISH ECHO
“The biggest buzz in Irish music is emanating from Lúnasa.” – THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Lúnasa manages to marry jazz-rock bass lines and an expanded
harmonic sensibility to an older rural music…determined to drag Irish
folk music kicking and screaming into the 21st century." – THE WASHINGTON POST
Founding member Trevor Hutchison spent much of 2007 pouring
over the band’s body of work to select the tracks that best represent
not only the energy, drive and fire that Lúnasa is known for, but also
the uniqueness of their compositions and arrangement style. Along the
way, the band made a side trip to the Compass Sound Studio in Nashville
to re-record “Aibreann” and “Morning Nightcap” as a way of illustrating
the sound of the current lineup and in the process redefined these band
favorites as classics of their repertoire. The end result is a
mind-blowing showcase of arguably the greatest instrumental group ever
to exist in Irish music.
• Re-visited and re-mixed, including two new recordings of Lúnasa classics “Aibreann” and “Morning Nightcap”.
• Includes tracks from all three Green Linnet titles and all three
Compass titles, including the originally self-released and now classic
album Lúnasa.
“The Story So Far…” includes expansive liner notes on the band’s history and an extensive photo journal
of the past 11 years. Featured are current band members double bassist
Trevor Hutchinson, piper Cillian Vallely, flutist Kevin Crawford,
fiddler Sean Smyth, and guitarist Paul Meehan, as well as past members
Donogh Hennessy (guitar), Michael McGoldrick (flute) and John McSherry
(Uilleann pipes).
Track Listing
1) Morning Nightcap (new version
2) Eanair
3) The Miller Of Drohan
4) Leckan Mor
5) Kilarney Boys of Pleasure
6) The Floating Crowbar
7) Black River
8) Fest Noz
9) Feabhra
10) Punch
11) Casu
12) Aibreann
13) Cregg’s Pipes
14) The Dimmers
15) The Dingle Berries
16) O’Carolan’s Welcome/ Rolling In The Barre
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