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The Irish Echo Page 21 Echo Arts & Lifestyle / Irish Echo / AUGUST 8-14, 2012 / www.irishecho.com Traditional Music / By Daniel Neely ‘Tis What It Is’ has wild music of in-crowd THE ALBUMS launched at this year’s music gone berserk. Comprising Willie Clancy Week continue to arrive in, Munnelly on melodeon, Conneely on with “‘Tis What It Is,” the new duet fiddle, Fromseier on banjo and Molloy on release from fiddler Mick Conneely and piano, the track starts fast out of the gate button accordionist David Munnelly, with an energy that gathers strength and being the most recent. “‘Tis What It Is” is intensity as it moves along. Conneely a brilliant album, but not one for listeners and Munnelly’s love for groups like the looking for a quiet, introspective listening Flanagan Brothers (and Fromseier and experience. Rather, it’s the wild music of Molloy’s, for that matter) is completely the in-crowd, possessing all the sound apparent here, and the hard swing they and fury of a full pub, where all your give these jigs would fit into that era friends are having too good a time, each perfectly. By the track’s last tune – a big one knowing that by sunrise they’ll be at four partner that moves through a few a diner and it will be late morning until different key areas – everyone’s they reach their beds. Good stuff, indeed. absolutely on fire. When the group From County Mayo, Munnelly is a breaks the flow to signal that the end is supremely talented box player. He was a nigh, it’s a disappointment! (If you’re a member of Niamh Parsons’s band the fan of the opening set of jigs from Enda Loose Connections and has toured with Scahill and Paul Brock’s album groups including the Chieftains, De “Humdinger” – “Erin Go Bragh / Mick Conneely and David Munnelly in different moods. Danann, Gerry O’Connor, Arty McGlynn Kimmel's / The Black Rogue” – you’ll dig and Sharon Shannon. Conneely, on the this one as well.) other hand, was born in England and is The album’s other tracks are similarly currently living in Galway. He plays both excellent. The “Shoe the Donkey/...” bouzouki and fiddle and has played and waltzes and “Humours of Glenflesk/...” toured with the likes of Mary Bergin, slides, for example, are played with Mairtin O'Connor, Noel Hill & Tony power and have a life dancers will Linnane, Tony MacMahon & Micho appreciate. Russel, Matt Molloy, Kevin Crawford and Released by Cló lar-Chonnacht, the Michael McGoldrick (among others), but album itself is both superbly recorded he is currently the full time fiddle player and well presented. The liner notes are in with De Danann (Alec Finn’s De Danann, English and Irish, and includes a that is; not Frankie Gavin’s De Dannan). foreword by Ben Lennon. Perhaps the The album includes some high caliber most interesting facet is the back cover guests, including Johnny “Ringo” blurb from comedian Tommy Tiernan McDonagh on bodhrán, Ryan Molloy on (which is appropriate, given how piano and Jonas Fromseier on tenor Conneely’s sense of humor puts him banjo. somewhere between Fred Finn and Dick The album opens with a couple of Brennan on the Tansey Metric) who high intensity barn dances, “The High rightly called the album “a raucous Caul Cap / Napoleon Crossing the encounter between chaos and melody.” Alps.” Conneely’s bowing on this (and Ultimately, “‘Tis What It Is” is a really, every) track is both dynamic and bundle of positive energy – and really, musical, and is matched not only by what more could you ask for? Munnelly’s melodic virtuosity, but by his keen sense of harmony on the bass buttons. The intensity remains high on tracks like “Maho Snaps/...” and P. Au Flanagan’s/...” until we reach “For Michael,” a haunting beautiful air revoir! Munnelly composed in memory of two friends. Here, better than anywhere else, CONSUL Munnelly’s harmonic sense is most easily General Noel appreciated. This track flows directly Kilkenny and into the next, a rake of tinker-themed his wife Honora reels, “The Jolly Tinker/The Yellow hosted a farewell Tinker/The Longford Tinker.” It’s a great party last week transition and despite the reel set’s in Manhattan intensity, there’s a sense of real intimacy for his deputy between the box and the fiddle on the Jacqueline first of the three tunes (“Jolly Tinker”) O'Halloran that matches the air and also acts as a Bernstein and perfect bridge into the next tune (“Yellow her husband Tinker”), where the bouzouki enters and Dr. Gustavo adds a lightness that contrasts the set’s Bernstein, who earlier gravity. are returning One of the album’s best tracks is the jig to Dublin. set “The Rakes of Kildare/Haley’s PHOTO BY Favorite/ Flanagan’s.” Retrofuturistic in PETER MCDERMOTT style and tone, it’s 1920s Irish dance band.
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