Last Night's Fun: In and Out of Time with Irish Music
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Rated 4 starsA literary adventure into Irish traditional music
Author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Fiddle (Complete Idiot's Guide to) "We are on Ballyweird on the outskirts of Portfush, County Antrim, and it's the morning after the night before. Or rather, it is sometime after noon..." This is how Ciaran Carson begins his literary journey through the world of Irish traditional music-- old recordings, pubs, late-night sessions, drinking, cigarettes and "The Fry" of the...
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Rated 4 starsBest insight into the soul of the music available
A skilled and formidable poet and chronicler of his native Belfast, Carson here blends his power over words into an evocation of how Irish music makes the impact it does. Seemingly an impossible task to attain on the page, but his decades as a musician allow him to capture the spirit behind the music. As they say, it's not how you read the notes, but how you hear them. His chapter headings refer to various titles of Irish...
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Rated 5 starsThe night before the morning after
Carson takes the reader on a journey deep into the very heart of Irish Music - the musician at his most timelessness. Don't pick this up expecting a scholarly approach to Irish music. This is an amazing insight into the music and the soul of the music as performed by an Irish musician. Carson even shows the little quirks of daily living that help to give birth to such a personable music. I love Irish music, but am...
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Rated 5 starsDelvings of the deep diddly diddly
Belfast writer, fluter, raconteur and unreliable witness takes us into the subterranean world of craic agus chaos as he attempts to surf the web of the perfect session experience. Part nostalgic interrogtation of his own relationship with traditional music, part exploration of the Ulster breakfast: this book is a close as it gets to the cameraderie and catharsis of an all night music bash. A work of astute fiction that...
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Rated 5 starsAn experience not to be missed
I've been a Celtic music fan for many years, long before it began to turn up on the New Age charts. While I don't mean to knock that genre (which has given some splendid traditional musicians -- e.g., the O'Domhnaills of Nightnoise and Alasdair Fraser of Skyedance -- the wider listenership they deserve), traditional Celtic music is an altogether grittier, funkier breed.Ciaran Carson brings a poet's sensibility to the performer's-eye...
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