Back to the Island
Matt Molloy
Irish
Matt Molloy
Released: 25th November 2018
Catalogue Number: MM005
Barcode: 689232112165
Running Time: 47 mins.
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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From the sleeve notes: This album was recorded over two days, in a series of single takes. It is another of Matt's effortlessly
faithful contributions to the history of Irish music, the tradition becoming visible as it passes through him, as the sinuous flutter of a trout reveals the flow of the stream.
1) Spider's Web / Boys of the Town / The Leg of the Duck
2) Colonel Frazier
3) Second Star / Galway Bay
4) The Girl I'll ne'er Forget
5) Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself / Anon / Smash the Windows / Sergeant Cahill's
6) Monaghan Jig
7) Spey in Spate / Devil among the Tailors / Arthur's Seat
8) Lough Mountain / O'Reilly's Greyhound / PJ & Eddie Moloney's
9) The Hut on the Bog / I wish i Never Saw You / The Ivy Leaf
10) The Glen of Mayo / The Whistler at the Wake
11) Eileen O'Brien's Reel / The Low Road to Glin
12) Paddy's Rambles through the Field
13) Pigeon on the Gate
14) Back to the Island / The Skipper Sean Prendergast
15) Willie's Fling
16) Porthole of the Kelp / Streams of Poulaphoca
From the sleeve notes: This album was recorded over two days, in a series of single takes. It is another of Matt's effortlessly
faithful contributions to the history of Irish music, the tradition becoming visible as it passes through him, as the sinuous flutter of a trout reveals the flow of the stream.
Lineup
Matt Molloy - Flute
Arty McGlynn - Guitar
Brian McGrath - Keyboard
Joe McNulty - Bodhran