CD Reviews
'Tis What It Is - Mick Conneely & David Munnelly (2012)
"A raucous encounter between chaos and melody. I loved it!" Tommy Tiernan
"...what we in Leitrim used to call 'hearty' music." Ben Lennon
"There are albums that become obligatory, legendary performances, benchmarks of taste, the right stuff bottled in less than an hour of music. And this is one of them." Sean Laffey - FolkWorld
"Bottling the chutzpah of a session is an elusive goal that few musicians achieve in the recording studio. This aptly named CD is a welcome exception." Siobhan Long - Irish Times
"...a brilliant album." Dan Neely - New York Irish Echo
"It steps outside the boundaries in approach and delivers one of the most energetic albums you will hear this year." Tony Lawless - TradConnect
"Fourteen superb sets of tunes from this Irish duo – 57 minutes of pure gold..." Grem Devlin - Living Tradition
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Irish Times | FolkWorld | Irish Echo | Trad Connect | Living Tradition
"...what we in Leitrim used to call 'hearty' music." Ben Lennon
"There are albums that become obligatory, legendary performances, benchmarks of taste, the right stuff bottled in less than an hour of music. And this is one of them." Sean Laffey - FolkWorld
"Bottling the chutzpah of a session is an elusive goal that few musicians achieve in the recording studio. This aptly named CD is a welcome exception." Siobhan Long - Irish Times
"...a brilliant album." Dan Neely - New York Irish Echo
"It steps outside the boundaries in approach and delivers one of the most energetic albums you will hear this year." Tony Lawless - TradConnect
"Fourteen superb sets of tunes from this Irish duo – 57 minutes of pure gold..." Grem Devlin - Living Tradition
More...
Irish Times | FolkWorld | Irish Echo | Trad Connect | Living Tradition
Wonderwaltz - De Danann (2010)
"De Danann's Wonderwaltz presents a true vision of Irish music today... The band sounds like they've returned to their roots... This is a wonderful nod to the past... But fiddler Mick Conneely is the great surprise here, with a ferocious fiddling style..." Hearth Music
"It is a masterpiece of Irish traditional music right up there with the seminal recordings the band made over the past 30 years, with its highly distinctive sound and mesmeric rhythmic pulse..." Kevin HJ Macleod
"De Danann are back, all guns blazing. It's like they never left the building..." Irish Music Magazine
"It is a masterpiece of Irish traditional music right up there with the seminal recordings the band made over the past 30 years, with its highly distinctive sound and mesmeric rhythmic pulse..." Kevin HJ Macleod
"De Danann are back, all guns blazing. It's like they never left the building..." Irish Music Magazine
Selkie - Mick Conneely (2001)
"Finesse and ferocious talent in full flight..." Siobhan Long - Irish Times
"Excellent..." Fiddle On Magazine
"Brilliant and highly recommended..." Taplas
"Quite breathtaking..." Irish Music Magazine
"A truly wonderful debut fiddle album that in every track has a rigour, patience and calm tempo which define it as pure passion..." Sunday Tribune
"An album of robust, atmospheric and exciting fiddle music of outstanding quality..." Living Tradition
All About [:Time] - Errislannan (1998)
"...with 'All About [:Time]' Errislannan have made a fine album... For lovers of the pure tradition of Ireland this is a hidden secret..." Christian Moll - FolkWorld
