Altan Gleann Nimhe - the Poison Glen(2012)[FLAC]

1. A Fig for a Kiss/The Turf Cutter (Slip Jigs) 2:47

2. Seolta Geala 3:59

3. The Ardara Girls/The Backdoor Highlands/Fáscadh mo Léine (The Wringing of My Shirt)/Reel in A/Ciaran Tourish's Reel 6:05

4. An Ghealóg 4:57

5. Caitlín Triall 3:22

6. The New Rigged Ship/Eddie Curran's Monaghan Twig/Kitty the Hare (Reels) 4:27

7. The Blackest Crow 4:50 Buy Track - The Blackest Crow

8. The Lancers Jig/The Further in the Deeper 3:11

9. The Lily of the West 4:33

10. The Wheels of the World (Reel) 4:03

11. Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó 4:23

12. Tommy Potts' Slip Jig 2:48

13. The House on the Corner 2:31



This venerable band from Donegal presents its newest recording. Shifting somewhat away from its Narada-label leanings of a decade back into New Age-inflected stylings, this Compass Records release offers a more traditional delivery of tunes, reliable in their familiar conjuring of their Northwestern Irish heritage. At its best, this recalls their standout albums originally released in America on the Green Linnet label.



This is also the first of their many albums since they began around thirty years ago to feature an Irish-language title. It's taken from a place near vocalist-fiddler Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh's home. She explains it as a mistranslation of "heavenly" glen, in fact, but that so many legends have sprung up to account for its more devilish connotation that it's been kept in its darker emanation. The band is photographed by Edain O'Donnell, or Photoshopped, among the technicolor of that glen, in a nod to the imagination which improves upon nature. This sly nod to enchantment and misdirection in the singer's native tongue represents a clever turn for this ensemble back to the roots music it plays best.



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