Artist: The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger
Title: A Little Bit Slanted
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: The Ciderhouse Rebellion
Genre: irish folk, celtic
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 48 min
Total Size: 312 mb


The Ciderhouse Rebellion’s collaboration with The Haar singer Molly Donnery has resulted in the release of a new album ‘A Little Bit Slanted’ - scheduled for 7th June 2024.

An album born on the road, out of friendship and late-night laughter, ‘A Little Bit Slanted’ was recorded in just two days on the North Yorkshire Moors with the Irish singer Molly Donnery, who collaborates with the duo in their lauded project The Haar (alongside bodhrán player Cormac Byrne).

A mid-winter break during a tour spontaneously turned into a four hour drive to lay down 9 songs, springing from a casual conversation between the three about touring in this configuration of violin, voice and accordion.

“Shall we do a little tour, then?” remarked Adam. Molly responded “Vibes. I was thinking of doing some songs I haven’t done in a while, from when I was a kid?”. “Cool. Nice” affirmed Murray and the project was then in motion, almost effortlessly.

Their intention to capture some of the joy and magic they had been feeling during their live sets resulted in this collection of traditional songs, performed in entirely new ways.

It proved to be much more than simply looking back, with Molly finding catharsis singing songs from her childhood in Gaelic and English - now honoured by the spontaneous musical worlds conjured by Adam Summerhayes and Murray Grainger. For Molly these are also the songs through which she developed her craft and then won the All-Ireland Scór na nÓg with - so there’s a real passion at play here.

As Grainger says: “Molly is probably the finest singer I’ve ever worked with. She’s ridiculously good.” Singing in English and Irish Gaelic, she brings a wonderfully contemporary timbre to these traditional songs. “She is such a capable and imaginative singer,” adds Summerhayes. “In the same way as we react to her, she absolutely reacts to us. So if we’ve suddenly taken a song in a different direction, she will absolutely go with it without a pause. I don’t know any other singer who’s quite as flexible.”

Tracklist:
1.01 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - Mo Buachaillínn Donn (My Brown-haired Boy) (5:25)
1.02 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - An Spealadóir (The Depression) (4:02)
1.03 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - Jimmy Murphy (3:18)
1.04 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - The Kilmacthomas Girl (4:48)
1.05 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - The Cabin with the Roses Round the Door (7:20)
1.06 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - Where the Mulcair River Flows (5:20)
1.07 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - Murphy's Running Dog (4:57)
1.08 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - A Stór Mo Chroí (The Treasure of my Heart) (5:25)
1.09 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - My Father's Cabin Small (4:14)
1.10 - The Ciderhouse Rebellion, Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger - The Town of Ballybay (3:49)