Blackwater (Altan Album)
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''Blackwater'' is the fifth studio album by Altan, released in April 1996 on the Virgin Records label. Three of the songs are sung in Irish. "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Baine" is sung partly in English and in Irish. "Blackwaterside" is sung in English. It was the first album released by the band since the death of founding member Frankie Kennedy two years earlier. The final track on the album is a tribute to Kennedy and was written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh herself.


Track listing

# "Johnny Boyle's/King of the Pipers" (Jigs) (Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 3.30 # "Dark Haired Lass/Biddy From Muckross/Sean Maguire's" (Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 2:51 # "Stór, A Stór, A Ghrá" (song) (Traditional) (Irish) - 2:51 # "Strathspey/Con McGinley's/The Newfoundland Reel" (Strathspey and Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) -3:11 # "Tá Mé 'Mo Shuí (I am awake)" (song) (Traditional) (Gaelic) - 4:08 # "An Gasúr Mor/Bunker Hill/Dogs Among the Bushes" (Hornpipe and Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 2:36 # "Molly Na gCuach Ní Chuilleanáin (The curly haired Molly)"(song) (Traditional) (Irish) - 2:35 # "Jenny Picking Cockles/Farewell to Leitrim/John Doherty's" (Reels) (Trad/Trad/Trad) (Instr) - 2:41 # "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Báine" (song) (Traditional) (sung in English and Irish) - 2:38 # "The Dance of the Honeybees" (hornpipe) (Charlie Lennon) (Instr) - 3:24 # "
Blackwaterside "Down by Blackwaterside" (also known as "Blackwaterside", "Blackwater Side" and "Black Waterside"; see Roud 312, Laws O1 and Roud 564, Laws P18, Henry H811) is a traditional folk song, provenance and author unknown, although it is likely to have or ...
" (song) (Traditional) (English) - 3:43 # "A Tune for Frankie" (jig) ( Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh) - 3:25


Personnel


Altan

* Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh
Fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...
, vocals *Ciaran Tourish – Fiddle, whistle, backing vocals *Dermot Byrne –
Accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
, melodeon *Ciarán Curran – Bouzouki *Mark Kelly – Guitar, backing vocals * Dáithí Sproule – Guitar, backing vocals


Guest musicians

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Steve Cooney Stephen Cooney is an Australian-Irish musician. Early life Cooney was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he learned to play the didgeridoo, and from the age of seventeen he played in a number of rock bands. He is of Irish ancestry. ...
Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...
(tracks 7, 9, 10, 12), backing vocals (tracks 3, 7) *Conan Doyle – Backing vocals (track 3) *Jimmy Higgins – Bodhrán (tracks 1, 3, 5), darrbuka (track 8),
snare drum The snare (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used ...
(track 7),
wood block Woodblock or wood block may refer to: * Woodblock (instrument), a percussion musical instrument * Woodblock printing, a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood * Woodblock graffiti * Toy block Toy bloc ...
(track 9), clay drums (track 3) * Dónal Lunny – Bouzouki (track 10), bodhrán (tracks 4, 7, 9, 12), keyboards (tracks 5, 7, 9, 12) * Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill – Backing vocals (track 3) * Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill – Backing vocals (track 3), piano (track 11) *Anna Ní Mhaonaigh – Backing vocals (track 7) * Brendan Power
Harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...
(tracks 3, 7, 9) *
String quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...
: ** Máire BreatnachViola **Annette Cleary — Cello **David James — Cello **Tommy Kane — Violin


Production

*Brian Masterson – Producer, Engineer *David Scheinmann – Photography *The Design Corporation – Design


References

Notes


External links

* - Official video {{Authority control Altan (band) albums 1996 albums Irish-language albums Virgin Records albums