MODERN IRISH PROJECTTune Up - Modern Irish Project Plays Simple & Exciting Irish MusicRef: FSD5771 Price: £17.99
Modern Irish Project are currently Japan's best Irish music band. They were formed by Aiko Obuchi (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Koji Nagano (guitar, banjo) and Tomosuke Tajima (drums, percussion) in 2007, performing at Irish pubs and bars regulary around Tokyo. They tour the Kansai area every year where they have also gained a lot of fans. 1. Fermoy Lasses set (reels) The Grock of Gold / The Fermoy Lasses 2. Newmarket set (polkas) Tom Sullivan's / Mrs. Crowley's / The Newmarket 3. The Orphan set (jigs) The Orphan / The Frost is All Over / The Haunted House 4. Down by the Sally Garden (slow air) 5. Fiddle solo set (reels) Farewell to Erin / The Piper on Horseback 6. Guiter solo set (jigs) Ships in Full Sail / The Cliffs of Moher 7. Tabula Bongo set (reels) The Exile of Erin / The Old Bush 8. The Foxhunter set (reels) The Humours of Tulla / The Earl's Chair / The Foxhunter 9. Takeda no Komoriuta (song) / February Snow (comp,Aiko Obuchi) 10. Take Her in Your Arms set (reels) The Otter's Holt / The Monaghan Twig
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BRIAN ENOSmall Craft on a Milk Sea (Japan edition with Bonus Track)Ref: FSD5613 Price: £18.99
Recorded with collaborators Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. Japan edition comes with bonus track. 1. Emerald and Lime 2. Complex Heaven 3. Small Craft on a Milk Sea 4. Flint March 5. Horse 6. 2 Forms of Anger 7. Bone Jump 8. Dust Shuffle 9. Paleosonic 10. Slow Ice, Old Moon 11. Lesser Heaven 12. Calcium Needles 13. Emerald and Stone 14. Written, Forgotten 15. Late Anthropocene 16. Invisible (Bonus track on Japanese edition)
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WILLY OKIYAMAAnthology King of Yodel Vol. 1Ref: FSD5435 Price: £24.99
Greatest hits from the 50s from Japan's 'King of Yodel'. 15 tracks.
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WILLY OKIYAMAAnthology King of Yodel Vol. 2Ref: FSD5434 Price: £20.99
Volume 2 of yodelling Japanese style. 12 tracks.
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FRETWORK AND CLARE WILKINSONThe Silken TentRef: FSD5010 Price: £19.99
Released on Ryuichi Sakamoto's Commmons label 23rd September. Fretwork are a British viols group who on this album collaborate with mezzo soprano singer Clare Wilkinson. 24 tracks from the 16th century and W. Bird to Michael Nyman in the 20th century. 1. Where the blind (and wanton boy) 2. Auf ein altes Bild 3. Now each flowerly bank of May 4. The Garden 5. La fille aux cheveux de lin 6. Turn our captivity 7. O Solitude 8. O Waly, waly 9. Let me not to the marriage 10. Fantasia No.1 11. The Silken Tent 12. Fantasia No.2 13. Why is my verse so barren? 14. O Lord in thy wrath 15. Music for a while 16. Sleep 17. Lord, to Thee I make my moan 18. Prelude in C major 19. Fugue in C major 20. O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth 21. Gebet 22. Heimweh 23. At the manger 24. If
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CLAIRE ELZIEREChansons d'Amour de ParisRef: FSD4510 Price: £23.99
Vocalist Claire Elziere sings some of the most famous musette pieces. She is accompanied by the usual suspects of Daniel Colin (accordion, piano), Dominique Cravic (guitar), plus bass, and even Okinawan sanshin played by Kazutoshi Negishi. 16 tracks. 1. Moulin Rouge 2. Hymne al'amour 3. Parlez-moi d'amour 4. Mon manege a moi 5. Sous le ciel de Paris 6. La vie en rose 7. L'accordeoniste s'est tu 8. Les amants de Paris 9. Que reste-t-il de nos amours 10. La goualante du pauvre Jean 11. Mon amant de Saint-Jean 12. Sur les quais du vieux Paris 13. C'etait bien (le petit bal perdu) 14. Trois petites notes de musique 15. Il n'ya a plus d'apres 16. Viens voir la belle etoile
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DANIEL COLINFrench Cafe Music - Swing! MusetteRef: FSD4487 Price: £22.99
New recording of French accordionist Daniel Colin on tunes themed around swing. Colin is accompanied by guitar, contrabass and clarinet on what is an album of quintessential musette. 17 tracks.
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DANIEL COLINFrench Cafe Music - Paris Musette 3Ref: FSD3868 Price: £19.99
Volume 3 in the Paris Musette series features accordionist Daniel Colin playing 20 tracks including some Spanish and Tango tunes.
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DANIEL COLIN & DOMINIC CRAVIC French Cafe Music - Paris Musette 2Ref: FSD3716 Price: £21.99
New recording featuring Daniel Colin on accordion and guitarist Dominic Cravic. 15 tracks of standard musette and chanson, some with vocals.
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