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Written in fRoots issue 345, 2012


NORTHERN LIGHTS
Dubh Agus Geal – Darkness And Light – Loric Colloquies
LMM 011001 (2011)

Sean nós singer Lorcán Mac Mathúna’s aim to trace similarities in Irish and Norse music emerges largely Irish in style, language and musicianship, with occasional translated Swedish ballad or Norwegian hardingfele, but refreshingly inhabits a rich, dark old-sounding world of grainy Gaelic voices and uilleann pipes from before the rise of celto-strum. www.lorcanmacmathuna.com


© 2011 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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