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The album, Bosca Ceoil & Fiddle, is a recording of Irish traditional music played on button accordion, fiddle and bouzouki. The musicians on the album are: Eamonn Costello (button accordion), Cathal Clohessy (fiddle), and Rodney Lancashire (bouzouki). On a number of the sets of tunes on the album they have experimented quite a bit with: tempo, dynamics, and counter melodies. On other tracks they have recorded what might be called more ‘traditional’ settings of tunes. Eamonn and Cathal have also composed a number of pieces on the album; some of these pieces are very much in the traditional idiom while others are more contemporary in style.
The CD is divided roughly into three sections: duets on button accordion and fiddle, trio on button accordion, fiddle, and bouzouki, and solos (both on button accordion and fiddle).
Track listing:
1. The Stray-Away Child (jig)
2. The Minstrel’s Fancy & Claw’s Hornpipe
3. Sergeant Early’s Dream (slow reel)
4. Sean Ryan’s, Gan Ainm (Return to Milltown), Farewell to Milltown (reels)
5. The Tempest, Farrell O’Gara’s, Rhattigan’s (reels)
6. Hardiman’s Fancy & The Drowning of Bruckless (jigs)
7. Farewell to Eyrecourt, Tom Wards Downfall, Mama’s Pet (reels)
8. Miss Langford (slow reel)
9. Man in the Bog & Loch Pholl an Gháinne (jigs)
10. Aisling Gheal (air)
11. Áille Dhomhain (waltx)
12. The Whistling Postman, Lawson’s Favourite (reels)
13. Philobus, Brian O’Kane’s (waltz and March)
14. An Dró & Tarantella Napoletana
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