CD-Rezension: Whisky Trail. San Frediano. Un irlandese a Firenze. An Irishman in Florence. Live in Saschal
Amiata Records & Edizioni Polistampa 2008, www.whiskytrail.it , www.amaitarecords.com , www.polistamoa.com
14 Tracks, CD 77:31, 78:28 DVD, book 96 pages with illustrations, photos, and Italian and English. Text
Italian Irish & Scottish folk in the footsteps of an Irish monk in Tuscany
whom this review is too long, a shorter read in Folker! 04.08. S. 93.f.
For the third time now I have the honor of reviewing a CD of the Florentine Irish & Scottish folk band Whisky Trail. I wrote in the review of Irlanda in festa decima edizione 16-19 marzo 2005 teatro di Firenze Saschall that this disc is not in her masterpiece Chaosmos come even close, so I said it again this time this new live recording is also better than that of 2005. Above all I have to write, that it is not just a CD, but also a DVD, and a very thick book that you could sell almost on its own in the book trade.
CD and DVD are recordings of the same concert, so include the same pieces, so that they can hear for example first and then his curiosity after breastfeeding, as the musician (s) look for when playing their instruments. The first piece strikes me in listening to the CD before as a little too tall, intro, when simultaneously watching the Harper for his game but it looks different, and so you have the whole recording just primarily as a document of a rousing St. Patrick's Day-appearance of the nine-member Band seen. And also can the enthusiastic fan of Chaosmos hear one or the other piece of the master disc here again and see if even in the form of special, small symphonies, but in another set composition. The DVD has over the CD also has the advantage that you can see the dance group Steps Painting in action. Yes, and also lead singer Giulia Lorima swings on the dance floor, after which the audience burst into joyful applause, and I in listening to the CD first thought the applause applies the same time beginning Reel, whose name I know not of me but always really like . He is a part of the set Banshee Steps (Track 4).
The book spans the first in Italian, then again in English a long history from the ancient Irish Celts and their druids and Filids of the Christian monks who Christianized by Ireland in the European continent, including just the Holy Fredino, in the 6th Century in Tuscany was active right up to today's Irish-folk scene in the city on the Arno, which form the center well Whisky Trail and the annual festivals in Irlanda. This is all very well designed, but what kind of identity with historical derivation is not it?
Let's go back to the music: What I really like her, is that in it not only Irish and Scottish and a few Breton style elements are fused together, but also Italian and Mediterranean tradition plays into it. Thus it into a kind of Euro-folk, but not so free, like the Urban Trad or Dikanda, but even more Irish and Scottish. But I must go search through my old tapes, because I feel as if I had the odd name of the band members have heard the list of musicians by Angelo Branduardi. If I have found the place, I let you know.
The musician (s) are:
Giulia Lorima: voice, fiddle
Vieri Bugli: fiddle
Stefano Corsi: Celtic harp, mouth harp, harmonium, voice
Massimo Giuntini: uilleann pipes, bodhran, pedal bass, voice
and
Alberto Massi: bag pipe
Lorenzo Greppi: whistles, bodhrán, bombarde bretonne
Piero Bubbico: percussions
Nicola Neri: whistles (Jeffes Reel, Fairy Nurse)
Quartetto Archaea (Jeffes Reel, Fairy Nurse):
Mauro Fabrucci: violin
Marcello Puliti: viola
Damiano Puliti: cello
Filippo Pedol: double bass
Painting Stepps:
Sonia Bagni, Serena Giachetti, Cecilia Megali, Sandra Quercioli, Mirko Peluso
Trackliste:
Frenzied Memories
Flavours
Up and Down
Banshee Steps
Copperplate
Jeffes Reel
Fairy Nurse
Eiri na Greine
Suite Bretonne
Witch's Courses
Green Hills
Two Hornpipes
Auld Lang Syne
Atoll Highlander
Rezis Fühere from me to Whisky Trail:
Whisky Trail. Chaosmos
In: Folker! 6:06, p. 83
online: http://www.folker.de/200606/rezi-eu.htm
and # 14: http://folktreff-bonn-rhein-sieg-rezensionen.blogspot.com/2006/11/ cd-reviews-for-the-folk-0606.html
Whisky Trail. Irlanda in festa decima edizione 16-19 marzo 2005 teatro di Firenze Saschall
online: http://folktreff-bonn-rhein-sieg-rezensionen.blogspot.com/2006/12/cd-rezension-whisky-trail-irlanda -in.html
MAS
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