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Maltese Bagpipe and Tambourine
Casadh An t-Sugain (The Twisting of the Hay-Rope)
Full of lively music and uplifted voices, this collection of Irish music was released in 1965 after on-sight recording at The King’s Arms and The Bedford Arms in London. Recorders Ralph Rinzler and Barry Murphy thank the proprietors of these buildings for giving them use of the recording machine and “the fac...
Full of lively music and uplifted voices, this collection of Irish music was released in 1965 after on-sight recording at The King’s Arms and The Bedford Arms in London. Recorders Ralph Rinzler and Barry Murphy thank the proprietors of these buildings for giving them use of the recording machine and “the facilities of the place, including drinks.”
On Deck and Below: The Irish at Sea: Music of the Western Ocean Packet
The Orangemen of Ulster
Collected in County Down in 1960, these field recordings present the songs, processional music, and of course, the lambeg drum beats characteristic of Northern Ireland’s Protestant population. Samuel Charters’ extensive notes provide ethnographic accounts of the aesthetics of lambeg drumming, although they av...
Collected in County Down in 1960, these field recordings present the songs, processional music, and of course, the lambeg drum beats characteristic of Northern Ireland’s Protestant population. Samuel Charters’ extensive notes provide ethnographic accounts of the aesthetics of lambeg drumming, although they avoid much discussion of the drums’ inescapable political context.