Arc, by Michael McGoldrick

Arc

by Michael McGoldrick

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1.	Five and Drive 03:41 video	buy track
2.	Wassalou River 04:12	buy track
3.	Trip to Nova Scotia 04:50	buy track
4.	Miss Catherine McGoldrick's Jigs 04:09	buy track
5.	The Soaring Eagle 04:01	buy track
6.	Angel Meadow 03:55	buy track
7.	Black Swan On The Turlough 05:36	buy track
8.	Simon & Candy's 50th Wedding Anniversary 04:14	buy track
9.	John Kelly's Concertina 04:45	buy track
10.	The Ogham Stone 04:29	buy track
11.	Bill Malley's Barndance 03:51	buy track

about

Don’t be deceived by Michael McGoldrick’s scant solo output: instead, be excited - be very excited - at the arrival of his new album, Arc: his first since 2010, and only his fifth in 22 years. Such unhurried intervals make any McGoldrick release an auspicious event, with each both cementing and extending the flautist, whistle player, uilleann piper and composer’s repute as one of today’s towering instrumental talents.

His solo work’s slow distillation is directly symbiotic with McGoldrick’s prolifically freewheeling collaborative career, across multiple genres, impelled by a seemingly boundless appetite for - and delight in – the music-making he’s pursued since childhood. Listing all the notable bands, projects and recordings his playing has graced would take up much of this document.

Heavily edited highlights include co-founding both Lúnasa and Flook; numerous guest appearances with Afro-Celt Sound System, Kate Rusby and Julie Fowlis; a linchpin role in legendary percussionist Zakir Hussain’s globe-trotting Pulse of the World project, and eight years’ touring and recording with Mark Knopfler. Alongside his 21-year membership of Scotland’s iconic Capercaillie, and his annual turn in The Transatlantic Sessions, McGoldrick also joins Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Paddy Glackin and John Doyle in new Irish supergroup Usher’s Island.

credits

released April 6, 2018

All tunes composed By Michael McGoldrick (published Vertical Music), except Bill Malley’s Barndance, John Kelly’s Concertina,
The High Jig & Coleman’s Cross (all trad. arr. McGoldrick).
Martin Wynnes no. 4 composed by Martin Wynne .
In Memory of Chris Langan composed by Paul Cranford.
Plecky The Turtle composed by Michael McGoldrick/Tony Bryne.

Produced by Donald Shaw & Michael McGoldrick recorded and Mixed at Gorbals Sound Studios, Glasgow. Engineered by Kevin Burleigh.
Mixed by Kevin Burleigh & Donald Shaw
Mastered by Iain Hutchison.

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Michael McGoldrick Manchester, UK

A co-founder of Flook and Lúnasa, and a linchpin of Capercaillie’s line-up since 1998, Manchester-born flute/whistle and uilleann pipes maestro Michael McGoldrick has in recent years performed around the globe in ex-Dire Straits legend Mark Knopfler’s band – including a tour with both Knopfler and Bob Dylan. ... more

discography

Waterman's Live EP

Jul 2020
Arc

Apr 2018
Aurora

Mar 2010
Wired

Jan 2006
Fused

Aug 2000

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