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Iarla Ó Lionáird is best-known as lead vocalist for Afro Celt Sound System - but also as one of Ireland's premier sean nós (old style) singers, acclaimed for his fresh interpretations of traditional music from very ancient Gaelic roots with a daringly innovative, modern sensibility. As composer and arranger for this album, Ó Lionáird drew on an eclectic roster of outstanding Irish musicians including Sinéad O'Connor (heard here in duet for the first time with Ó Lionáird), legendary fiddler Martin Hayes, Tommy McMenanam of The Popes, and "beat master" Ron Aslan ... among others. The music is central to the evocation of memory in the film, I Could Read The Sky - which unravels in dream-episodic imagery the twisting, wistful retro-drama of an aging workingman's life, from a decaying rural Irish past to a vividly modern present in England. Based on a photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and the celebrated photographer Steve Pyke (permanent collection, National Portrait Gallery/London; Philosophers, Poguetry), and directed by the award-winning Nichola Bruce (The Human Face with Laurie Anderson, Wings of Death, The Loved). |
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