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New AlbumNeill has released a new album, called "Skins & Sins". Details Below:
Track Listing: Click on the MP3s below to hear Music Samples from the new album, Skins & Sins: 01. Connie the Soldier, Faster the Leggin!, Wheels of the World | Jigs MP3 02. Mick Coynes, The Guns of the Magnificent Seven | Reels MP3 03. Courtown Harbour, The Lisnagun | Jigs MP3 04. The Mountain Lark, McGoldrick’s Reel | Reels MP3 05. Solo MP3 06. The king’s Reel, The Ivy Leaf | Reels MP3 07. Poll H’apenny, The Blackbird | Hornpipes MP3 08. Cnoc an Teampaill | March MP3 09. Her Lovely Hair was Flowing Down her Back, Lad O’Beirnes MP3 10. Scotch Mary, Wheels of the World, Pretty Girls of Mayo | Reels MP3 11. Brother Fusion MP3 To Buy the album: "Neill Lyons - Skins & Sins" can be bought safely and securely online through PayPal by clicking on the "Buy Now" button below for €15. A competitve "worldwide shipping" cost of €3 postage & packaging is offered. Neill Lyons - Skins & Sins
Musicians: Neill Lyons (Bodhrán) - All ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to: All the Lyons Clan: Willie, Norah, Brian, Helen, Barry & Conor. Aido Lawlor, Alan Byrne, Leonard Barry, Michelle O’Brien, Andy Morrow, Peter Browne, Shane McGowan, Paul McCarthy, Dave McNevin, Tom Sherlock, Hilda O’Brien, Damien Dempsey & Band, Mick & Fidelma O’Brien, Sean Murphy, Padraig Ó Sé, Oli Cehini, Nicky McAuliffe, Mick O’Connor, Tom Mulligan & all the staff in the Cobblestone.
Éamonn DeBarra, Fionán DeBarra, Mick Broderick, Dónal Ó Conchubhair, Tim Martin; for all the long hours and hard work. Murrough O’Kane, Daire Bracken, Paul McNevin (thanks for helping me with the names of the tunes sham). Paul Flynn and the Arts Council. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews: Neill Lyons Skins and Sins I had the pleasure to watch Neill Lyons winning the World Bodhrán Championship in 2006 with a commanding assured performance. This his first solo CD is also an assured commanding performance. Playing with a who's who of the younger exponents of Irish Traditional Music, Lyons displays his mastery of tha Bodhrán, an instrument often relegated to the nether regions of Irish Traditional Music. My favourite tracks on the album are the ensemble performances. The opening track has a lovely, happy, light feel to it and if Neill ever decides to take himself on the road this emsemble has a sound that would endear itself to audiences. There are two solo percussion performances on the album one of Neill on his own and the second track with his brother Conor also an accomplished percussionist and some ambient string sounds. The second percussion piece to my mind is the more interesting of the two and showcases the differing strenghts and skills of the brothers. This is an album that is one that should definitely grace the shelves of any person interested in Irish Traditional Music and Bodhrán playing in particular. Tommy Hayes | 22/11/08 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Lyons Great to see a new addition to that rare breed of recordings – the bodhrán album! This one comes from one of the leading young Irish bodhrán players, Neill Lyons from Dublin. Winner of the first World Bodhrán Championship, Neill successfully captures all of his musicality and expertise on the instrument on this, his debut CD. Neill is joined here by many of his musician friends and the result is a CD full of musical highlights. The ensemble playing throughout is excellent and the duets between bodhrán and fiddle, bodhrán and flute, and bodhrán and harp are especially successful. Tunes are paced beautifully with a welcome emphasis on groove rather than speed. The bodhrán playing is of the highest order throughout – subtle, accurate and always very tasteful – the trademarks of Neill’s style. Neill successfully fuses traditional and more contemporary approaches to bodhrán playing in his style. There are echoes of an older style in some of the playing - a subtle accent of Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh, perhaps – yet the rhythmic language and tonal colouring are assuredly contemporary. Neill’s innovative approach to the instrument is nowhere better heard than on his great solo playing and on the bodhrán duet with his brother Conor. Listen to the cool grooves on Skins and Sins over and over again and follow Neill as he crosses rhythmic terrain that is both familiar and new. Mel Mercier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEILL LYONS Own Label NLCD001, 11 tracks Surprising how quickly things move in the modern world of traditional music! Back in July 2008, world bodhrán champion, Neill Lyons, was applying to the Deis scheme for funding to release an album called Skins and Sins and in November 2008 the disc is in my CD player. Neill has gathered together an impressive group of musicians, many of whom bear the Lyons name, Helen (harp), Brian (bouzouki), Barry (fiddle) and Conor (bodhrán). He also has called on the prodigious talents of Éamonn De Barra (flute), Paul McNevin (fiddle), Peter Browne (accordion), Leonard Barry (uilleann pipes) and Mick Broderick (bouzouki, cittern and mandolin). And there are more musicians too, which, if you know the names, will indicate they are the cream of the late twenty-somethings from the Dublin traditional scene. Deis, it seems, spent wisely. From the start we know we are in solid traditional territory here, with Leonard Barry leading out the pack with Connie the Soldier. Neill adds his bodhrán beat, which is steady; played on the bunch of sticks which gives a snare expression. The sound fills out with Mick Broderick's bouzouki adding a pulsing bass and then in come the regulators, ending in a huge sound. Great start and it just gets better. For me the bacon and cabbage of the bodhrán world is how well the player can accompany the flute - they are a combination boiled in heaven. Éamonn De Barra is on top form with the pairing of Mick Coynes and The Guns of the Magnificnent Seven, while Neill Lyons pulls alongside him to great effect. The ensemble playing is lively and intelligent throughout and Lyons never overstates his welcome; the tunes are allowed to ramble, never being tied to the Garmin by the goat skin. Indeed, so at home is he with the group (which is more or less Slide with Pipes) that we don't hear a solo until track five, which is an essay on the full dynamics of his Seamus O'Kane drum. The album closes with Brother Fusion, where he is joined by his brother Conor and one of the De Barra lads for a jazzy trip around bodhrán beating. Young and rooted, it's a lot of skin but hardly any sins at all. Seán Laffey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, visit my MySpace page and leave a comment! Thanks, Neill. |
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