Volume 1: Sound Magic
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Track listing

  1. (a)"Saor (Free)" / (b)"News from Nowhere" – 8:21
  2. "Whirl-y-Reel 1 (Beard and Sandals Mix)" – 7:21
  3. "Inion (Daughter)" – 4:15
  4. (а)"Sure-As-Not" / (b)"Sure-As-Knot (Jungle Segue)" – 9:58
  5. "Nil Cead Againn Dul Abhaile (We Cannot Go Home)" – 7:20
  6. "Dark Moon, High Tide" (including "Farewell to Eireann") – 4:12
  7. "Whirl-y-Reel 2 (Folk Police Mix)" – 5:28
  8. "House of the Ancestors" – 8:01
  9. (а)"Eistigh Liomsa Sealad (Listen to Me)" / (b)"Saor Reprise" – 10:53

Personnel

  • Ronan Browne
    Ronan Browne
    Ronan Browne is an Irish musician and composer who plays the uilleann pipes. He is the grandson of Delia Murphy. He is the Uilleann Piper and Singer with CRAN. He plays in a duet with Peter O'Loughlin...

     – flute, mandolin, harmonium, uillean pipes
  • Jo Bruce – keyboards, programming
  • Kauwding Cissokho – kora
  • Massamba Diop – talking drum
  • Simon Emmerson
    Simon Emmerson
    For the experimental music artist, see Simon Emmerson .Simon Emmerson is a Grammy Award-nominated record producer, guitarist, DJ and founder of the group Afro Celt Sound System....

     – guitar, programming
  • James McNally – accordion, bodhran
  • Iarla Ó Lionáird
    Iarla Ó Lionáird
    Iarla Ó Lionáird is an Irish singer and producer well known for his involvement with the Afro Celt Sound System. He is one of the most prominent artists of the Irish Sean nós singing tradition, and has released three solo albums through Real World Records, the third being Invisible Fields,...

     – vocals
  • Ayub Ogada
    Ayub Ogada
    Ayub Ogada is a musician from Kenya. Ogada was born in Mombasa and is one of the Luo people of Western Kenya.He received his first exposure to Western culture early on. When he was six, his parents , toured the college circuit in the U.S...

     – vocals
  • Martin Russell
    Martin Russell
    Martin Russell is a twice Grammy Award-nominated recording engineer, producer, composer, and musician. He has been a core member of the music group Afro Celt Sound System since the recording of the first album Volume 1: Sound Magic in mid 1995. As of 2010 the recorded output of the group has so far...

     – keyboards, programming
  • Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...

     – uillean pipes

Additional personnel

  • Malcolm Crosbie – guitar
  • Simon Edwards – sintir
  • Gary Finlayson – banjo
  • John Fortis – bass, loops
  • Angus R. Grant – fiddle
  • Manu Katché
    Manu Katché
    Manu Katché is a French musician of Ivorian origin, born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on 27 October 1958. He is a drummer and songwriter.-Career:Session musician...

     – cymbals
  • Caroline Lavelle
    Caroline Lavelle
    Caroline Lavelle is a British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands.-Career:Lavelle studied at the Royal College of Music in London...

     – cello
  • James MacKintosh
    James Mackintosh
    Sir James Mackintosh was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.-Early life:Mackintosh was born at...

     – bongos
  • Ian MacLeod – mandolin
  • Levon Minassian
    Levon Minassian
    Levon Minassian is a French-Armenian duduk player.He played in Mayrig and The Passion of the Christ. He cooperates with Charles Aznavour, Helene Segara, Peter Gabriel and Sting.-Discography:*1998 Lévon Minassian and Friends, The Doudouk beyond borders...

     – doudouk
  • Myrdhin – harp
  • Zil – vocal drone

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1997 Billboard Top World Music Albums 15
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