chieftains line-up: paddy moloney on uillean pipes, tin whistles; seán keane on fiddle; martin fay on fiddle, bones; derek bell on neo irish harp, tiompán; kevin conneff on bodhrán, chinese gong, vocals; matt molloy on flute
produced by paddy moloney
(p) 1984 (on disc) Ceirnini Cladaigh, Teach an Dáma, Sraid an Dáma, Baìle átha Cliath 2, éire / Dame House, Dame Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
8/9/15: i succumbed. i caught them on tour with two chinese musicians playing weird & wonderful chinese instruments (as well as more "normal" ones - though one of the weirder ones was extremely normal - n-million° metal pipes sticking straight up from a base held? and blown into by the musician using fingers(?) (? not thumbs?) to elicit differently-pitched notes), which is when i bought the lp.
mods: possibly add some, any or all of the following to the notes: section?:
additional to &/or expansions upon the (emboldened) track titles:
tracks 1, 6 & 9: performed by the chieftains, (with chinese ensemble) appended;
track 2 appends: slán le máighe (slow air);
track 3 appends: (polkas), but does not identify which, aside of the track title;
track 4 appends: 'sé fáth mo bhuartha (slow air);
track 5 & 8 append: (medley), but of what is in neither case identified;
track 7 appends: (slow air, introduction chinese p'i p'a);
track 9 appends: - an gaoth aneas (slow air);
track 10 appends: (reels, introduction chinese air), but identities neither reels nor air.
recorded in china & hong kong by brian masterton of windmill lane studios, dublin with assistance from mick o' gorman, mixed at those same studios by bill somerville-large & pearse dunn. the (unidentified) chinese traditional ensembles recording with the chieftains in beijing (peiping, pekin, peking, etc.) suzhow and shanghai co-ordinated by performing arts agency of china, who also helped organise the chieftains' tour.
there's no other date on disc or printed-paper inserts, but would the cd've come out the same time as claddagh's lp release (which is the format in which i bought the album) ?