Sleepsongs
Caitriona O'Leary & Dulra
Irish
Heresy Records
Released: 3rd March 2014
Catalogue Number: Heresy014
Barcode: 5060268640306
Running Time: 51mins.
You can listen to short samples from some of the tracks on this album using the player below.
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SLEEPSONGS by the critically acclaimed Irish band Caitríona O’Leary & Dúlra. The album also features celebrated guest artists from the world’s of early music, contemporary classical and jazz & is an album of Suantraí – ancient Irish lullabies and songs on the theme of sleep.
The album is released as a stunning special edition digibook with photography by the celebrated Polish photographer Laelia Mileri. The photographs in the booklet have been created to resemble Pre-Raphaelite paintings and staged to evoke the lyrics in the songs on the album.
1) Cuirfidh me fein mo Leanbh a Chodladh (I Will Put My Baby to Sleep)
2) Agus Seoithin (And Lulla, Lullaby)
3) An Seotho (The Lulla)
4) Seoba mo Leanbh (Shush, My Baby)
5) Hush o'
6) Codail, a Leanbh (Sleep, Child)
7) Rachaidh Se (He Will Go)
8) Cosa Buidhe Arda (Little Yellow Legs)
9) Ar Mhullach an tSidhe (On the Fairy Mound)
10) Ta Me 'mo Chodladh (I Am Asleep)
11) CodailBeagan (Sleep A Little)
12) Seoithin mo Leabh (Lullaby my Baby)
13) Suantrai Nua Eabhrac (New York Lullaby)
14) Lollai, Litil Child
15) When I Was Young
16) Cucu-in (Little Cuckoo)
17) A Bhean ud thios ar Bhruach an tSruthain (O Woman Beside the Stream)
SLEEPSONGS by the critically acclaimed Irish band Caitríona O’Leary & Dúlra. The album also features celebrated guest artists from the world’s of early music, contemporary classical and jazz & is an album of Suantraí – ancient Irish lullabies and songs on the theme of sleep.
The album is released as a stunning special edition digibook with photography by the celebrated Polish photographer Laelia Mileri. The photographs in the booklet have been created to resemble Pre-Raphaelite paintings and staged to evoke the lyrics in the songs on the album.
Lineup
Caitriona O'Leary - Voice
Dulra:
Adrian Hart - Fiddle
Emer Mayock - Flute & Whistle
Kate Ellis - Cello
Mel Mercier - Bodhran
with
Deirdre O'Leary - Clarinets
Erin Headley- Bass Viol & Lirone
Francesco Turrisi - Percussion
university College Cork Gamelan