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At The End Of The Evening
''At the End of the Evening'' is a studio album by Nightnoise. The album was released by Windham Hill Records (WD-1076) in 1988. Track listing # "Windell" by Billy Oskay and Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (3:47) # "Of a Summer Morn" by Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (3:21) # "Hugh" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (3:39) # "Jaunting" by Brian Dunning (3:35) # "The Courtyard" by Billy Oskay (2:48) # "'Bring Me Back A Song.'" by Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (4:50) # "Snow on High Ground" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (3:43) # "At the Races" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (3:06) # "Forgotten Carnival" by Brian Dunning (3:30) # "The Cuillin Hills" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (2:47) # "Her Kansas Sun" by Billy Oskay (3:35) # "End of the Evening" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (5:06) # "The Swan" by Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (3:17) Credits * Billy Oskay – violin, viola, keyboards, engineer * Mícheál Ó Domhnaill – guitar, keyboards, whistle * Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill Tríona Ní Dho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Traditional Music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In ''A History of Irish Music'' (1905), W. H. Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use. These were the ''cruit'' (a small harp) and '' clairseach'' (a bigger harp with typically 30 strings), the ''timpan'' (a small string instrument played with a bow or plectrum), the ''feadan'' (a fife), the ''buinne'' (an oboe or flute), the ''guthbuinne'' (a bassoon-type horn), the ''bennbuabhal'' and ''corn'' ( hornpipes), the ''cuislenna'' (bagpipes – see Great Irish warpipes), the ''stoc'' and ''sturgan'' (clarions or trumpets), and the ''cnamha'' (bones).''A History of Irish Music: Chapter II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celtic Music
Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe. It refers to both orally-transmitted traditional music and recorded music and the styles vary considerably to include everything from traditional music to a wide range of hybrids. Description and definition ''Celtic music'' means two things mainly. First, it is the music of the people that identify themselves as Celts. Secondly, it refers to whatever qualities may be unique to the music of the Celtic nations. Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common. These following melodic practices may be used widely across the different variants of Celtic Music: *It is common for the melodic line to move up and down the primary chords in many Celtic songs. There are a number of possible reasons for this: **''Melodic variation'' can be easily introduced. Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part (in contrast to orchestral music, in which each string part is played by a number of performers). However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances. Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as "the music of friends". For more than 100 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for playing solo or symphonic works. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windham Hill Records
Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. It was founded by guitarist William Ackerman and Anne Robinson (née McGilvray) in 1976 and was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The label was purchased by Bertelsmann Music Group, BMG through a series of buyouts from 1992 through 1996 and is currently a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment after BMG's subsequent merger in 2008. Private Music, also a subsidiary of BMG, has issued some back-catalog releases under the Windham Hill Records imprint. Since the Sony merger in 2007, Windham Hill has released no new material but reissues albums and compilations as part of Sony's Legacy Recordings brand. Origin In 1975, William Ackerman was a college dropout who played acoustic guitar on the Stanford University campus. Friends asked him to record his instrumental music for them on cassette. They chipped in so that he could make an album titled ''The Search for the Turtle's Navel'' (lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Of Time
''Something of Time'' is a studio album by Nightnoise. The album was released by Windham Hill Records (WD-1057) in 1987. Track listing # "Timewinds" by Billy Oskay (3:47) # "Perchance to Dream" (Billy Oskay, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill) – 4:56 # "The Erebus and the Terror" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – 4:34 # "On the Deep" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (4:05) # "Hourglass" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (6:05) # "Shadows on a Dancefloor" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (3:53) # "Wiggy Wiggy" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (4:22) # "Tundra Summer" (Oskay) – (4:49) # "Aprés-Midi" (Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill) – (3:54) # "Something of Time" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (3:04) # "Toys Not Ties" ( Brian Dunning) – (3:59) # "I Still Remember" (Oskay) – (3:45) D bonus track# "One for the Lad" (M. Ó Domhnaill) – (4:12) D bonus track Credits * Billy Oskay – violin, viola, piano, harmonium, producer, engineer, mixing, digital editing and assembly * Mícheál Ó Domhnaill – guitar, whistle, piano, harmonium, synthesizer, voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Parting Tide
''The Parting Tide'' is a studio album by Nightnoise. The album was released by Windham Hill Records (WD-1097) in 1990. Track listing # "Bleu" by Brian Dunning (4:56) # "An Irish Carol" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (8:00) # "Jig of Sorts" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (3:29) # "Through the Castle Garden" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (2:52) # "Island of Hope and Tears" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (4:45) # "The Kid in the Cot" by Brian Dunning (6:05) # "The Tryst" by Billy Oskay (4:23) # "Snow Is Lightly Falling" by Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (3:55) # "The Abbot" by Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (7:41) Credits * Billy Oskay – violin, viola, keyboards, recording supervisor, mixing * Mícheál Ó Domhnaill – guitar, whistle, keyboards, vocals, producer * Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill – vocals, piano, keyboards, whistle, accordion * Brian Dunning (flautist), Brian Dunning – flute, alto flute, panpipes, panflute * Brian Willis – cymbal (8) * Mark Boddeker – mastering su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightnoise
Nightnoise was a music ensemble active from 1984 to 1997. Their original blend of Irish traditional music, Celtic music, jazz, and classical chamber music inspired a generation of Irish musicians. They released seven albums on the Windham Hill label. Origins The origins of Nightnoise can be traced to the Bothy Band (disbanded in 1979), who made a name in Ireland and internationally with a lively fiddle-based sound that brought Irish music into the mainstream. One of the band's founders, guitarist Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, came from a long line of Irish musicians, and was considered one of the finest performers of traditional Irish music. In 1983, after seven years with the Bothy Band and several years collaborating with the master fiddler Kevin Burke, Ó Domhnaill began searching for a new project and a new sound. He met Billy Oskay in Portland, Oregon, and the two began a new collaboration focused on a new and innovative music that integrated Celtic, jazz, and classical chambe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill
Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (; 7 October 1951 – 7 July 2006) was an Irish singer, guitarist, composer, and producer who was a major influence on Irish traditional music in the second half of the twentieth century. He is remembered for his innovative work with Skara Brae, the first group to record vocal harmonization in Irish language songs, and The Bothy Band, one of the most influential groups in Irish traditional music. His reputation was enhanced by a successful collaboration with master fiddler Kevin Burke, and his work with the Celtic groups Relativity and Nightnoise, which achieved significant commercial and critical acclaim. Ó Domhnaill was raised in Kells, County Meath, Ireland and spent his summers in the Donegal Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area of Rann na Feirste, where the Irish language is the main spoken language. He inherited a deep love and understanding of Irish culture and Irish traditional music from his parents. In Donegal, Mícheál spent time with his aunt Nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill
Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish traditional singer, keyboard player, and composer, considered one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of Irish music. She is famed for her work with traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity, Touchstone, and Nightnoise. Early years Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill was raised in Kells, County Meath. Her paternal grandparents moved there from the Rann na Feirste Gaeltacht of Donegal in the 1930s. Tríona is from a prominent musical family. Her paternal aunt, Neillí, contributed nearly 300 folk songs to the folklore collection of University College Dublin. Together with her brother, Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, younger sister Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill, and multi-instrumentalist Dáithí Sproule, Ní Dhomhnaill formed the folk group, Skara Brae, in which she played the clavinet and sang. Skara Brae specialised in songs sung in the Irish language, many sourced from the Rann na Feirste area where their father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Dunning (flautist)
Brian Dunning (21 December 1951 – 10 February 2022) was an Irish flautist and composer, largely known for being a member of the Celtic band Nightnoise. He had both Celtic and jazz influences early on. He studied jazz and classical music, and was a student of James Galway. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in 1977. Dunning played the flute and panpipe in Puck Fair, a primarily instrumental "Irish jazz" group formed in New York in 1984 that played traditional Irish songs and original compositions. They released the album ''Fairplay'' on the Lost Lake Arts/Windham Hill label in 1987, with Dunning on flute and drummer Tommy Hayes on bodhran, joined by various musicians including Mícheál Ó Domhnaill Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (; 7 October 1951 – 7 July 2006) was an Irish singer, guitarist, composer, and producer who was a major influence on Irish traditional music in the second half of the twentieth century. He is remembered for his innovativ .... The group was later r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Albums
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