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The fourth album by the band Kila brings traditional Irish music kicking and screaming into the new millennium with a baroque, theatrical flair. Kila's sound tastefully and energetically combines such traditional instruments as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhrán with Middle Eastern strings, African percussion, and horns to fashion a distinctively Irish approach to world-fusion. Each of the seven musicians--including former Dead Can Dancers Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Lance Hogan--is a talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. The jazzy acoustic guitar and flute on "The Compledgegationist" might remind lis
The fourth album by the band Kila brings traditional Irish music kicking and screaming into the new millennium with a baroque, theatrical flair. Kila's sound tastefully and energetically combines such traditional instruments as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhrán with Middle Eastern strings, African percussion, and horns to fashion a distinctively Irish approach to world-fusion. Each of the seven musicians--including former Dead Can Dancers Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Lance Hogan--is a talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. The jazzy acoustic guitar and flute on "The Compledgegationist" might remind listeners of previous generations of Celtic folk-rock ensembles (early Jethro Tull, Pentangle), while "Rachel's Reel" sounds a bit like David Grisman's "jazzgrass" hybrid. But the Gaelic rap on "Tine Lasta" and the Afro-Celt tribal drumming on "An Tiománaí" are something else again. It's unlikely that there'll be a more fresh and original release to come out of Ireland in 2000. --Rick Mitchell
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Manufacturer: Green Linnet
Release date: 4 April 2000
EAN: 0048248313223 UPC: 048248313223
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