(2022) The Alt - Day Is Come              


Review:
The self-titled first album by the trio of Nuala Kennedy (flute and whistle), John Doyle (guitar, bodhrán, keyboards), and Eamon O’Leary (bouzouki, harmonium), all justly acclaimed over the years for their solo work and various collaborations, more than lived up to expectations on its release in 2014. It’s been a long, slightly anxious wait for this second album, recorded under the difficult conditions of lockdown. They’re joined on several tracks by the brilliant fiddler Kevin Burke and Day is Come collects songs from sources including ballads, traditional music archives, sympathetic contemporary writers, poetry and their own pens for a striking, poignant and relevant collection that might even surpass that mighty debut. Their instrumental skills are unimpeachable, of course, but a perhaps less obvious joy is the remarkable way their voices blend and complement each other in settings as diverse as the tender children’s lullaby ‘Éiníní’, the oft-recorded Child Ballad ‘The Fair Flower of Northumberland’, and the exquisite lament ‘The Willow Tree’, written by the award-winning singer, songwriter and academic Pádraigín Ní Úallacháin, who also pointed Kennedy to the joyous opening track ‘Tá na Lá’, an Irish language drinking song from Oriel, an ancient division of Ireland of which Kennedy’s hometown of Dundalk is part. — songlines.co.uk


   


Track List:
1.Tá na Lá (Day is Come) 03:46
2.Falkirk Fair 04:10
3.The Willow Tree 03:54
4.Stolen Butter / Biddy Earlyś Reel / The Salamanca 04:14
5.Éiníní (Little Birds) 05:08
6.The Connaught Rangers 03:12
7.Paddy's Land 04:42
8.Flower of Northumberland 05:36
9.Páidín Ó Raifeartaigh / Lohan's / The Donegal Tinker 05:38
10.The Blackbird and the Thrush 05:23


Media Report:
Genre: acoustic, celtic, folk
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits


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