Changing Trains, by Mozaik

Changing Trains

by Mozaik

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seamus quaide Andy Irvine is our greatest Folk artist, this album represents the genius of his range and diversity. Favorite track: O'Donoghues.

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1.	O'Donoghues 04:55	buy track
2.	Sail Away Ladies / Walking in the Parlor 03:24	buy track
3.	The Wind Blows over the Danube 06:24	buy track
4.	Reuben's Transatlantic Express (Reuben's train) 05:37	buy track
5.	The Humours of Parov 05:56	buy track
6.	The Ballad of Rennardine / Johnny Cuig 04:48	buy track
7.	Mary Rogers (Mary Mhaggie) / Siún Ní Dhuibhir 04:53	buy track
8.	Train on the Island / Big Hoedown 04:32	buy track
9.	The Pigfarm Suite (The Groves of Myrtle) 06:25	buy track
10.	Carrowclare (Nights in Carrowclare) 04:52	buy track

about

We had worked on this one for a long time before it got to the studio. We had rehearsed in Glasgow in January 2005 for nearly a week, then in Japan while on tour there in April 2005. We finally got to the recording studio in Budapest in November 2005.

I missed my flight from Dublin, arriving at the airport without my passport. When I got home to retrieve it, there it was, a dark red object on a dark red carpet! Almost invisible!

We all stayed in Nikola Parov's lovely house outside the city. While we were in Hungary, we made a couple of videos, to promote the album. They are very funny! The music came together quite slowly as I recall. There was a technical problem with recording Bruce, singing and playing the fiddle at the same time. I forget how we got over that. Then there was some contention between members of the band over the arrangements. We hung in there.

The album was released first in Australia to coincide with a tour we were doing in March 2006 but we weren't totally happy with the mix and Dónal spent long hours re-mixing it in Okinawa. The finished article didn't come out till September 2007, nearly two years after we had recorded it. I think this is a wonderful album. We have no plans to make another but I hope those plans are laid one of these days.

credits

released January 1, 2007

Produced by Mozaik

Andy Irvine : vocal, bouzouki, mandola, harmonica
Bruce Molsky : vocal, fiddle, guitar, 5-string banjo
Dónal Lunny : vocal, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán
Rens van der Zalm : fiddle, guitar, mandolin, oud, low whistle
Nikola Parov : kaval, gaida, gadulka, guitar, whistle, percussion, nyckelharpa

Special guest
Liam O'Flynn : uilleann pipes, whistle

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Andy Irvine

Irish singer-songwriter and traditional musician. He plays bouzouki, mandola, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica and sometimes guitar.

Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD, Usher's Island and more. ... more

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May 6

Moth Club

London, UK
May 8

The Greystones

Sheffield, UK
May 9

J2, Cambridge Junction

Cambridge, UK

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