Ultan O'Brien - Dancing the Line (2025)
BAND/ARTIST: Ultan O'Brien
- Title: Dancing the Line
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Nyahh Records
- Genre: Irish folk
- Quality: FLAC 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:42:25
- Total Size: 226 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Ultan O’Brien is a fiddle player and composer from the wilds of County Clare in the West of Ireland. Ultan is a performer as well as a regular at sessions all of Ireland and can be found by chance in any pub in Dublin, Cork or some remote village on the edge of nowhere, flying jigs and reels around the room. Ultan was reared in the rich tradition of Irish music which is so commonly found and heard in Co Clare, but he also delves deep into sound art and experimental music. He has often been heard in the back of a car after a few pints quoting lines from Alvin Lucier or speaking at length about improvisation and it’s place in modern Irish music. Ulatn O’Brien is a fresh and vital player who has much to offer with his unique approach and technique to a tradition so old and ever ready for a subtle change every 100 years or so.
Ultan has played and recorded with people and bands such as Skipper’s Alley, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, John Francis Flynn, Slow Moving Clouds, Cuar, Laura Jurd, Martin Green, Natalia Beylis, Paul Roe and Nic Gareiss.
‘in its [Ultan’s fiddle playing] sincerity of tone it reminds me somewhat of those great caoineadh which were played with such elusive grandeur by Denis Murphy and Pádraig O’Keefe’
Adrian Scahill
‘lets the heart brighten and the feet tap’
Richard Hollingum -KlofMag
ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL ALBUM:
This album, Dancing the Line, is my first solo album of music played on an alternatively-tune alto fiddle. I found that the resonance and growl of this lower tuned instrument sat me perfectly into the sound-world I wanted to be in, giving vibrancy to my own compositions and nestling into the traditional music I grew up with.
Musicians: Ultan O’Brien - alto fiddle, electronic
Nic Gareiss - percussive dance (tracks 3,5,7,8,9,11,13)
Martin Green - accordion (tracks 4,10,11)
The record features field recordings of Whitestrand near Miltown Malbay (tracks 4,12,13,1 and voice recordings of Edwina Guckian (track 14)
Tracklist:
1-1 Ultan O'Brien - Iron Mountain Foothills [1:43]
1-2 Ultan O'Brien - Game of Love [1:22]
1-3 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - The Boyne Hunt (feat. Nic Gareiss) [1:36]
1-4 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green - It was in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Four (feat. Martin Green) [3:34]
1-5 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Wayside Wonders (feat. Nic Gareiss) [1:25]
1-6 Ultan O'Brien - Domhnall Na Griana / The Butcher’s March [2:51]
1-7 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - The Four Courts / Rolling in the Barrel (feat. Nic Gareiss) [2:53]
1-8 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Fisherman’s Garden (feat. Nic Gareiss) [0:56]
1-9 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Macha (feat. Nic Gareiss) [3:48]
1-10 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green;Nic Gareiss - Packie’s Pandemonium (feat. Nic Gareiss & Martin Green) [2:39]
1-11 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green;Nic Gareiss - Banbha’s Ruins (feat. Nic Gareiss & Martin Green) [2:27]
1-12 Ultan O'Brien - Down in Whitestrand [3:15]
1-13 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Secret House in Fintra Beg (feat. Nic Gareiss) [7:45]
1-14 Ultan O'Brien;Edwina Guckian - Death Doula Meet (feat. Edwina Guckian) [6:11]
Ultan has played and recorded with people and bands such as Skipper’s Alley, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin, John Francis Flynn, Slow Moving Clouds, Cuar, Laura Jurd, Martin Green, Natalia Beylis, Paul Roe and Nic Gareiss.
‘in its [Ultan’s fiddle playing] sincerity of tone it reminds me somewhat of those great caoineadh which were played with such elusive grandeur by Denis Murphy and Pádraig O’Keefe’
Adrian Scahill
‘lets the heart brighten and the feet tap’
Richard Hollingum -KlofMag
ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL ALBUM:
This album, Dancing the Line, is my first solo album of music played on an alternatively-tune alto fiddle. I found that the resonance and growl of this lower tuned instrument sat me perfectly into the sound-world I wanted to be in, giving vibrancy to my own compositions and nestling into the traditional music I grew up with.
Musicians: Ultan O’Brien - alto fiddle, electronic
Nic Gareiss - percussive dance (tracks 3,5,7,8,9,11,13)
Martin Green - accordion (tracks 4,10,11)
The record features field recordings of Whitestrand near Miltown Malbay (tracks 4,12,13,1 and voice recordings of Edwina Guckian (track 14)
Tracklist:
1-1 Ultan O'Brien - Iron Mountain Foothills [1:43]
1-2 Ultan O'Brien - Game of Love [1:22]
1-3 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - The Boyne Hunt (feat. Nic Gareiss) [1:36]
1-4 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green - It was in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Four (feat. Martin Green) [3:34]
1-5 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Wayside Wonders (feat. Nic Gareiss) [1:25]
1-6 Ultan O'Brien - Domhnall Na Griana / The Butcher’s March [2:51]
1-7 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - The Four Courts / Rolling in the Barrel (feat. Nic Gareiss) [2:53]
1-8 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Fisherman’s Garden (feat. Nic Gareiss) [0:56]
1-9 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Macha (feat. Nic Gareiss) [3:48]
1-10 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green;Nic Gareiss - Packie’s Pandemonium (feat. Nic Gareiss & Martin Green) [2:39]
1-11 Ultan O'Brien;Martin Green;Nic Gareiss - Banbha’s Ruins (feat. Nic Gareiss & Martin Green) [2:27]
1-12 Ultan O'Brien - Down in Whitestrand [3:15]
1-13 Ultan O'Brien;Nic Gareiss - Secret House in Fintra Beg (feat. Nic Gareiss) [7:45]
1-14 Ultan O'Brien;Edwina Guckian - Death Doula Meet (feat. Edwina Guckian) [6:11]
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