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"To Gather from the Air a Live Tradition..." --Ezra Pound Heart of the Stranger, the second CD from the New-Celtic group Bradys Leap, gathers from new and ancient sources a live and lively tradition. Emerging from creative blends of folk, Celtic, Rock, Alternative, and Blues, and the poetry of Ireland, Britain, and America, Heart of the Stranger offers thirteen original or newly arranged songs, touching on subjects as far ranging as quantum physics and the Civil War. You'll hear a blues-country quarrel between a hard-bitten medieval Welsh poet and the women of his parish. Youll hear a young lover dreaming whisky by the ocean, and weeping families boarding the infamous Famine Ships for Americasung and played with dynamic harmonies, electric and acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bass, banjo, tin whistle, bones and bodhran. Needless to say, there's a fair dollop of drinking songs, but for those of you used to the old toora-loora-looras and diddly-eye-dies, be prepared, as Monty Python would say, for something completely different, because all these songsdrinking, drowned and drybear the mark of the poets and musicians of Bradys Leap, whove gathered to voice a new kind of music altogether, Heart of the Stranger.