Harvest Storm
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Harvest Storm is the third studio album by Altan, released in 1992 on the Green Linnet
label.
All titles are traditional except the following:
Green Linnet Records
Green Linnet Records was an American independent record label that specialized in Celtic music. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky as Innisfree Records in 1973, the label was initially based in Null's house in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1975, the label became Innisfree/Green Linnet and Wendy...
label.
Track listing
All titles arranged by Altan.- "Pretty Peg/New Ships A-Sailing/The Bird's Nest/The Man From Bundoran" (reels) – 3:37
- "Dónal Agus Mórag/The New-Rigged Ship" (song and reel) – 4:27
- "King of the Pipers" (jig) – 3:08
- "Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" (jigs) – 2:33
- "Mo Choill" (song) – 4:10
- "The Snowy Path" (slip jig) – 2:12
- "Drowsy Maggie/Rakish Paddy/Harvest Storm" (reels) – 2:57
- "Sí Do Mhaimeo Í" (song) – 2:50
- "McFarley's/Mill Na Máidí" (reels) – 2:25
- "The Rosses Highlands" (highlands) – 2:58
- "A Nobleman's Wedding" (song) – 6:35
- "Bog An Lochain/Margaree Reel/The Humours of Westport" (strathspey and reels) – 3:34
- "Dobbin's Flowery Vale" (slow air and reel) – 4:20
All titles are traditional except the following:
- "Séamus O'Shanahan's/Walking in Liffey Street" composed by Paul O'Shaughnessy
- "The Snowy Path" composed by Mark Kelly
- "Harvest Storm" composed by Frankie KennedyFrankie KennedyFrankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh...
and Mairéad Ní MhaonaighMairéad Ní MhaonaighMairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan.-Biography:Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore , County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland....
Personnel
- Mairéad Ní MhaonaighMairéad Ní MhaonaighMairéad Ní Mhaonaigh is an Irish fiddler and the lead vocalist for the Irish traditional band Altan.-Biography:Ní Mhaonaigh grew up in Gweedore , County Donegal, on the northwest coast of Ireland....
– FiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
, vocals - Frankie KennedyFrankie KennedyFrankie Kennedy was a flute and tin whistle player born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was also the co-founder of the band Altan, formed with his wife Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh...
– FluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, whistleTin whistleThe tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
, vocals (backing) - Ciaran Tourish – Fiddle, whistle, vocals (backing)
- Paul O'Shaughnessy – Fiddle
- Ciarán Curran – BouzoukiBouzoukiThe bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
, bouzouki-guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with... - Mark Kelly – Guitar, vocals (backing)
- Dáithí SprouleDáithí SprouleDáithí Sproule is a guitarist and singer of traditional Irish music from Derry, Northern Ireland. His niece is the singer songwriter Claire Sproule.-Biography:...
– Guitar on "The Rosses Highlands", vocals (backing)
Guest musicians
- Frieda Gray – DancingIrish stepdanceIrish stepdance is a type of performance dance originated in Ireland from traditional Irish dance, characterised by solo dancers who dance with hands by their sides and upper body stiff, making quick, intricate movements of the feet, often with a troupe. Irish stepdancing was popularized by the...
on "Mill na Máidí" - Tommy Hayes – BodhránBodhránThe bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
, bass bodhrán, percussion, jaw harp - Dónal LunnyDónal LunnyDónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...
– KeyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
, bass bodhrán on "Dónal Agus Mórag" - Liam Ó Maonlaí – DidgeridooDidgeridooThe didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
on "Sí Do Mhaimeo Í"
Production
- P.J. Curtis – Producer
- Brian Masterson – Engineer
- Aidan McGovern – Assistant Engineer
- Ciaran Byrne – Assistant Engineer
- Greenberg Kingsley – Design
- Ross WilsonRoss Wilson (artist)Ross Wilson is an artist from Northern Ireland. He studied Fine Art at the University of Ulster and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and has been a visiting speaker at Harvard University and the University of Oxford...
– Artwork - Colm Henry – Photography