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MUSIC PROJECTS

UNACCOMPANIED RECORDING PRODUCED BY KEN BROWN

I started this project four years ago and have run into several snags - but am hoping that this is the year that it will get finished! As some of you know I was having a lot of trouble with my voice and it took much persevering effort to find out what was the matter. It turned out to be a simple enough problem: acid reflux was burning my vocal chords. A simple change in diet has improved the situation enormously - and the project is finally back on track.

It will tentatively be called "The Blackest Crow" and should be released Spring of 2008

It will be a selection of some of my  favourite songs - some translations from the Irish in the sean-nós style (for more on sean-nós click here ), some repertoire from the collections of Helen Creighton and Peter Kennedy housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and a couple of Breton songs in French. My  goal, as always, has been to find interesting songs - songs with unusual melody and lyrics - and do them in a simple unaccompanied style. 

If you are interested in being informed when it is done please send an e-mailto 
imagocorvi AT gmail.com (please replace the AT with @) 

to hear sample click here:
Old Grey Sheep (from the singing of Tomas O Neachtain)
to hear sample click here:
Song of Renvyle (from the singing of Treasa Ui Chonghaile)

EXPERIMENTAL RECORDING - PRODUCED BY HANI HABASHI

Hani is an electronic musician, unfamiliar with the world of Irish music so I have asked him to work with me in the hopes of bringing a fresh perspective to the music. This is a project largely for fun, and has no projected completion date. I will be asking other musical friends from other musical genres to step in and see if we can't make something that wil make you listen to the songs a little differently...

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Catherine Crowe