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Genres: Folk, International Music
 
Debut album from 1999 for traditional Irish folk band featuring 9 tracks with a modern twist. Featuring the twin flutes of Sarah Allen & Brian Finnegan, Ed Boyd on guitars and John Joe Kelly, acknowledged as one of ...  more »

     
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Title: flatfish
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Genres: Folk, International Music
Styles: British & Celtic Folk, Celtic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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Debut album from 1999 for traditional Irish folk band featuring 9 tracks with a modern twist. Featuring the twin flutes of Sarah Allen & Brian Finnegan, Ed Boyd on guitars and John Joe Kelly, acknowledged as one of the worlds best Bodhran players. Digipak.

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Stellar first release by giants of the New Celtic Thing
Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 11/05/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This band's debut studio disc, if not as absolutely accomplished as their sophomore effort, Rubai, is nonetheless a recording of remarkable subtlety, drive, and musicianship, providing the hearer with nearly unending listening pleasures. It takes musicians of not only consummate skill but also penetrating aesthetic discernment to produce a disc of this weight and consequence.



For shear rhythmic intensity and melodic/harmonic joie de vivre, this band sets an astonishingly high bar. Listen. It's really difficult to conjure such burning cadences and still sound natural, not wildly--let alone unpleasantly--frenetic. Yet these people handle it without missing a beat, so to speak.



In some ways, I like this disc even better than Rubai. There's a certain freshness, an innocence, a naiveté shining through these digital bits that, although not entirely lacking on their second offering, nevertheless defines this disc in a way that it doesn't Rubai. Consequently, it's nearly impossible to choose between the two: Do you want sophistication or intensity? Subtlety or strength (not that each doesn't participate in both; we're just talking emphases here)? Mature reflection or youthful enthusiasm?



If I were you, I'd opt for both. If I HAD to choose one over the other, I think I'd take Rubai. But it'd be an awfully close call."
You will listen with your mouth open...
Jan P. Dennis | 03/25/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is what I call a brilliant CD. Great musicians, awesome music."
Simply excellent.
Jan P. Dennis | 10/23/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Probably one of the most creative young irish/english band.
A nice selection of tunes (compositions, Breton music, Balkan colours...), inventive arrangements and a very lively flute style
by Brian Finnegan. I just loved it."