County Clare is considered by most to be the home of Traditional Irish music.  A place where the landscape speaks through the people, and tunes appear out of the air.  It's rich history of  festivals, lessons and sessions over the last 50 years has seen world class musicians emerge who preserved the local culture and heritage while driving the tunes to new spaces. This is a mixtape made from outside the circle, a homage to time and place.  It's an audio love letter to my home,  to rural traditions and the humour, wit and wisdom of the musicians Co. Clare has produced.

'The Humours of Clare – Traditional Music from County Clare mix'



Junior Crehan excerpt (Taken from 'Lament for the Country House Dance') 
Cuar – 'Zezere' 
Wille Clancy - 'Dark Lochnagar' air
Micho Russell excerpt 1 (Taken from 'Ireland's Whistling Ambassador', 1993) 
Micho Russell - 'Come into Town, My Fair Lady' 
Bríd O'Donohue - 'An Muigín Leanna, Port Mhic Ellis (Poirt)' 
Marty O'Keefe - 'Polka, Haughs of Cromdale (Máirseáil)' 
Sonny Welsh excerpt  (RTE broadcast of 'PM' on 27th of March 1979)
Sonny Welsh – 'Timmy Coffey's Cat' (RTE broadcast of 'PM' on 27th of March 1979)
Tom Lenihan - 'Paddy's Panacea'
'Battering' excerpt (RTE broadcast of 'Newsbeat' on 11th of February 1971)
Noel Hill & Tony MacMahon - 'The Humours of Castlefin' 
Hugh Healy And Michael O'Connell - 'The Boys of Ballinahinch / The Green Fields of Rossbeigh / The Pinch of Snuff (reels)' 
Willie Clancy excerpt (Interview in Doolin, 1971) 
Kitty Hayes - 'Hornpipes_ the Golden Castle, Humours of Tullycrine' 
Martin Hayes - 'Paddy Fahy's Jig-Sean Ryan's Jig' 
Micho Russell excerpt 2 (Taken from 'Ireland's Whistling Ambassador', 1993) 
PJ Crotty - 'Poirt Christy Barry (Poirt)' 
Nora Cleary – 'The Cod Fish'
Noel Hill - 'The Collier's Reel' 
Tony Mcmahon excerpt (Taken from 'The Green Linnet' – Ennis Fleadh Cheoil 1978) 
Jack Talty & Cormac Begley - 'Willie Clancy's Mountain Top  Da Nippin Grund  Denis Murphy's'
Dennis Cahill & Martin Hayes - 'The Bucks of Oranmore / Eileen Curran / Jimmy On the Moor' 
Stocktons Wing – 'Skidoo'
Micho Russell excerpt 3 (Taken from 'Ireland's Whistling Ambassador', 1993) 
Tony Mcmahon - 'O'Carolan's Farewell to Music'

Thanks to Ian Malone's leg and Christy Storr for the use of the image.
Supported by the CLAG scheme by Clare County Council.

The Humours of Clare - Traditional Music from County Clare mix

Taken from the debut EP by MuRli called 'Surface Tension'.  Released on the 13th of january 2015.  Available to buy at https://murli.bandcamp.com/album/surface-tension

MuRli - Surface Tension - 01 Both Sides (feat. God Knows) -Prod. By MynameisjOhn-

Free download here on OkayAfrica.  
http://www.okayafrica.com/news/rusangano-family-wasteman/

Ethics.  Right versus wrong.  Good versus evil.  Morality versus sin.   A universal conflict that has played on the conscience of the individual for eternity.  Some argue that it is indeed the essence of the human condition.  It is the foundation of all belief systems and religions, an inescapable conundrum for the entire world to face every second of every day.  This antagonistic duality is a theme that is fervently explored in the arts, tackled by everyone from Aristotle to Shakespeare to Tolkien to George Lucas.  And now, Rusangano Family step forward to present their philosophical insights on the matter.  The condensed version is basically this - Don't be a wasteman, just be a good human.  
Its that simple.  

Lyrics by MuRli and God Knows.  
Production by mynameisjOhn
Guitar by Steve Ryan from Windings
Recorded and mixed by mynameisjOhn
Mastered by Alex at Ashmus.  
Photo by Patrick O'Brien 
2015. Limerick, Ireland. 



Rusangano Family - 'Wasteman'

DJ mix once gone, now back.  Grab it while you can. 

Whisper Your Secrets To Trees mix

Music to drive home to.  Blended.   Some of the stuff here is what might make it on to the stereo when Im driving home after a Rusangano Family show.  We bang it out loud on the way to a show, but the road home is always something quieter.  

Masayoshi Fujita - Moonlight
Floating Points - Elaenia
Mort Garson - Ode To An African Violet
Minoru Muraoka - Oiwake
Laraaji - Kalimba 
David Axelrod - A Divine Image
Shye Ben Tzur & The Rajasthan Express - Junun Brass
Baka Pygmies - Naboma (Ngombi Na Peke 3)
Akalé Wubé - Fikratchin
DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko - Nana
[unknown] - Shoe vendors, central market
Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat
Makaya McCraven - First Thing First 
Pharaoh Sanders - Love Is Everywhere




What We Listen To On The Road Home

Here's a mix i did for man like Bolts' monthly show on Fly High Radio from a while back.  
https://www.mixcloud.com/flyhighradio/

Flako - 'The Opening'
Meredith Monk - 'Fields/Clouds'
Legowelt - 'Innsmouth, Today A Pleasant Seaside Town'
Clap Clap - 'Conqueror'
Kuedo - 'Truth Flood' 
SertOne - 'Why U Mad?' 
Owiny Sigoma Band - 'Sunken Wreck'
LV - 'Transitions'
DJ Khalab & Baba Sissoko -'Kan Djke ke' 
GoGo Penguin - 'Branches break'
Horace Silver - 'Nica's Dream'
Joe Bataan - 'Aftershower funk'
Build An Ark - 'You've Gotta Have Freedom'
Kelan Philip Cohran - 'Ancestral'
The United States of America - 'Cloud song'

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