The Gloaming
Live at the NCH
Real World Records
Transatlantic quintet The
Gloaming have established an annual sold-out residency at Dublin’s National Concert
Hall. For their third album, six live
tracks have been selected by pianist and
producer, Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), which captures a reinvention of Irish music
for a world stage.
Three times Irish fiddler
champion Martin Hayes, and Caoimhin (pronounced
Kvaveen) Ó Raghallaigh on hardanger
d’amore (a Norwegian fiddle with extra
resonating understrings)
slows traditional jigs and reels, then builds them back up. Responding to Bartlett’s
subtle but avant-garde piano and fellow American
Dennis Cahill’s minimal but percussive
guitar, allows this ensemble to explore and develop their lengthy
compositions to almost classical music impressions. Sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird (from
Afro-Celt Soundsystem) completes the band by using Irish
literature to inspire his lyrics.
The virtuosity is a given –
each member has already achieved success, but between the intuitive interplay,
they’ve also managed to keep the intimacy and the warmth for which Irish music is
renowned worldwide.
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