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Irish supergroup Lúnasa released its worldwide debut album in 1999, but several years previously the band had made an eponymous album on its own and issued it in Ireland. This reissue includes ten of the album's original 11 tracks, some of them recorded live and some in the studio, and adds two previously unreleased live performances. The sound is generally fine if not spectacular, but the playing is consistently thrilling. Lúnasa's rhythmic daring and the prominent use of Trevor Hutchinson's string bass mean that the band sounds significantly different from its more trad-oriented contemporaries -- the tricky time signatures on their rendition of Grey Larsen's "Thunderhead" sound more klezmerish than anything else, while their more traditional take on Pierre Bensusan's hornpipe "The Last Pint" combines flute and low whistle to gorgeous effect. Piper John McSherry gets to flaunt his prodigious chops on a stomping rendition of "Colonel Frasier," and fiddler Sean Smyth does the same on the beautiful "Fleur de Madragore." This is an exceptional debut by a band that would go on to become even better. ~ Rick Anderson
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Lunasa: Donogh Hennessy (guitar); Michael McGoldrick (flute); John McSherry Uilleann pipes); Sean Smyth (fiddle); Trevor Hutchinson (bass).
Lunasa Songs | 1. | Eanair |
| 2. | Feabhra |
| 3. | Marta |
| 4. | Aibreann |
| 5. | Bealtaine |
| 6. | Meitheamh |
| 7. | Iuil |
| 8. | Mean Fomhair |
| 9. | Deireadh Fomhair |
| 10. | Mi Na Samhna |
| 11. | Mi Na Nollag |
| 12. | Jacky Molard's / The Hunter's Purse - (bonus track) |
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Purchase Lunasa CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dirty Three In The Fishtank CD (2004) Extended Play
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 $9.65 
In late 1999, the Dutch label KonKurrent invited Minneapolis band Low into an in-house studio to record one of the label's near-legendary In the Fishtank sessions; bands have two days to record between 20-30 minutes of all new material of their choosing. Also touring at the time were Low's pals, the Australian instrumental dynamos the Dirty Three. Low invited them in, and in the same collaborative spirit as another In the Fishtank session involving Tortoise and the Ex, this half-hour session is the document. What is truly amazing about this hookup is how natural these two bands sound playing with one another. Low has been striking out lately, playing different kinds of material while keeping its signature slower-than-slow approach to songwriting. The Dirty Three has taken a more melodic and dynamically restrained tack since their landmark Ocean Songs recording of a few years back. Of the six songs recorded here, none is more successful that the ...
| | Doors Live At The Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance CDs (2001)
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$28.09  
From the Doors' own Bright Midnight Records comes this double-disc package featuring the first of two sets performed on July 21, 1969, at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood. The evening was billed as " Elektra Records Showcase Concert Series Presents..." and, as lead vocalist Jim Morrison announces at the outset, these homecoming performances were done for the express purpose of gathering material for a live album. Indeed, this was only the fifth concert appearance that the Doors had been able to secure in the wake of what is referred to as "the Miami incident." While at times pensive, the band members ultimately rise to the occasion as they wind through a set of hits and fan favorites, as well as a few compositions that would have been previously unheard by this audience. The set begins with little fanfare and the virtual absence of any response from the crowd is ...
| | Doors Live At The Aquarius Theater-The Second Performance CDs (2001)
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$28.15
As the title suggests, this set contains the second of two complete shows from the Doors at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, July 21, 1969. Both were professionally documented, anticipating enough material for a stopgap concert album as the band simultaneously composed and arranged new sides for their subsequent Morrison Hotel and LA Woman studio releases. With over three decades under the bridge and the blessings of the surviving bandmembers, Live at the Aquarius Theater: The Second Performance provides a real-time recreation of the entire two-and-a-quarter-hour performance from the sonically superior multi-track tapes. Initially the interaction between the band and audience borders on ennui, while a seemingly unfazed John ...
| | Ike & Tina Turner Nutbush City Limits/Feel Good CD (2006) Bonus Tracks
Lunasa songs
$17.75
Raven's 2006 two-fer Nutbush City Limits/Feel Good combines two of Ike & Tina Turner's last albums together and adds five bonus tracks, three of which were taken from other Ike & Tina albums from the early '70s, one taken from a Tina solo record, and one disco mix of "Nutbush City Limits." The album that arrives first on this two-fer was actually the last of these two to be released: Nutbush City Limits appeared in 1973, a year after Feel Good, but its title track is one of Ike & Tina's best-known songs so it's an appropriate choice to kick off this disc. Besides, the two records are so similar in tone and approach, it'd be easy to assume that Feel Good arrived before Nutbush, but that isn't to say they're interchangeable. Both records are hard day-glo funk, overloaded with fuzz guitars, wah wahs, clavinets and horn sections, but of the two, Nutbush City Limits is a bit closer to gritty deep soul thanks to a slow-burning cover of Dobie Gray's country-soul classic "Drift Away," the gospel-fied "That's My Purpose," a churning, funky reworking of "You Are My Sunshine," and, of course, ...
| | Raga For Peter Walker CD (2006) Digipak
Lunasa album
$10.09
Many of the legends of acoustic guitar in the 20th century have already passed on -- John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Ali Farka Toure. Due partially to his spare recording career, Peter Walker's own reputation has not always been as well known as those of said giants, but his own influence has been considerable. A Raga for Peter Walker -- a tribute album that, in a nice touch, not only consists of ...
| | Alasdair Fraser Return To Kintail CD (1999)
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$12.69
| | Luka Bloom Riverside CD (1990)
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$11.19
So Luka Bloom is famed Irish singer/songwriter Christy Moore's younger brother, and yes, they both play a raucous acoustic guitar and sing of tormented souls and lost love; that doesn't mean that Bloom is overshadowed by his older sibling. By any standards, RIVERSIDE is a mature and stunning debut.
Although on some tracks Bloom (his adopted first name was inspired by the Suzanne Vega song) uses some fine Irish and American accompanists (Eileen Ivers on fiddle, Jane Scarpantoni on cello), RIVERSIDE mostly ...
| | Patrick Street Street Life CD (2003)
Lunasa songs
$13.79
| | Conjunto Amanecer La Trayectoria CDs (2004)
Lunasa album
$15.89
Includes bonus DVD.
| | Masters Of The Irish Guitar CD (2006)
Lunasa CD music
$14.19
| | Avalon Lua Meija CD (2006) (Import)
Lunasa music CDs
$15.75
| | Chromeo Fancy Footwork CD (2007)
Lunasa songs
$11.59 
| | Sirens Say Goodbye To La La Land CD (2008) (Import) United Kingdom
Lunasa album
$30.55
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