ha! the constant nature of the pipes make the wave look like a compressed to death rap track...

Claire Boucher: voix
Brad Hurley: guitare à douze cordes

An Hini Kozh

01 Miss McLeods Reel   Queen Maeve (

A set of reels from a concert we did in Philly.

Copley Street - Coleman's Graf Spey, The Leitrim Thrush

This recording is a sketch of Movement 02 \\ 15.07 - 19.07. 
The context and material for this project are rooted in the histories of Bedlam (Southwark London), narrated by two uilleann pipers experimenting with layered voices and imagery. The music will relay the story of "wandering anticks [sic]” through the recreation of the annual patients' ball. 
The second movement shifts between jig and waltz motifs, introducing the Bedlam dancers.

BEDLAM \\ 15.07 - 19.07 w. James Patrick Gavin

Reels: The Shoemaker's Daughter/Stay Another While/Music at the Gate

People are talking about minus 14 LUFS loudness more and more these days, but why ? What does this number mean, where does it come from, and why should you care ?

In this episode we answer all these questions and more, including:

 * Which streaming services are using -14 LUFS
 * Why Spotify aren’t using -14 LUFS, and why it matters
 * Why you shouldn’t use minus 14 LUFS as a target (or any number) but
 * Why it’s still important and useful to know about anyway 
 * Will mastering to -14 LUFS make your music sound bad ?!?

Full links and show notes on the website
http://themasteringshow.com/episode-67

The Mastering Show

The Mastering Show #67 - Minus 14 LUFS - or NOT ?

All the Small Things (blink-182 cover)

Track 4 of the first Chulrua CD Barefoot on the Alter released in '99 with Tim Britton on uillean pipes, wooden flute, and tin whistle, Paddy O Brien on button accordion and Pat Egan on guitar. This particular track is just with Tim on pipes and Pat on guitar playing Tim's rendition of Seamus Ennis's version of this slow air, followed by two jigs, the second being one of the great old big piping jigs made famous by Willie Clancy. 

From the liner notes: We recorded this album over four days just after the Summer solstice, the longest day of the year. In record heat with humidity to match, we drove from my home in Fairfield, IA, down to the little village of Bentonsport. Once a small but thriving river town, it wouldn't exist now but for the efforts of a few warm hearted artisans who keep it going as a reminder to the tourists who wander through of what life can be like. We were amazed to find that this community once sustained four churches. Two remain, one of which afforded us the combination of isolation, spacious sound, and availability our recording required. It also personified the unpretentious beauty that predominates the rolling farmland around it and the people living there.

Outside, bees buzzed, birds sang and fireflies danced late into the night. Inside, seated barefoot on the alter to minimize the reverberation of our foot stomping, we played the old tunes. But, like the irrepressible rhythms of Paddy's fingers, the gentle strength of Pat's voice, or the raw emotion of the pipes; like the laughter of children or the spirit of the people of Ireland and everywhere else; like the small green things that push their way through the pavement of progress; the foot stomping persists like a heartbeat.

Tim Britton

The Wounded Hussar, Slieve Russell, The Humours of Balllyloughlin

Written by Gemma Rose

Produced by Mateo Lewis
Mixed by Alberto Hernández
Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner

Moving to a new place often comes with a lot of questions about how things work. From how the locals navigate the streets to where to go for intel on happenings around town to how to connect with the community and make new friends.  If you're like newcomers Hannah-Hunt and Gabrielle, you especially want to learn how to build a relationship with the community, and to get to know a place on its own terms. In Fresh Eyes, these newcomers look to long time residents for their thoughts on the ways of the Roaring Fork Valley. In this episode we ask: Does Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley have a signature garment?

FRESH EYES - EP 1 - KDNK - Public Affairs - 9.29.2020

Promoting the magic of music...

It has been said that the purpose of music is to create silence. As a professional musician and maker of musical instruments for 40 years and sound engineer for 30, I am intimately familiar with this paradox. Indeed, I base the success of my music on my ability to invoke the eye of the storm. 

It is my great pleasure to bring this level of care to recreating audio art in your home, studio or recording project. Representing only the finest products and services in any price range, whether it be a single song for a special friend or a radio ready CD, a humble stereo receiver or an exotic single ended triode tube amplifier, a simple CD player or a state of the art turntable, the companies whose products I represent and use share my passion for elegance, integrity of design and profound fidelity. You can trust that all has been done to bring unprecedented beauty into your life within any budget.

My name is Tim Britton. I am the owner of Pied Piper Productions. I grew up in a family central to the Philadelphia folk music scene. Since the tender but tenacious age of 11 I have passionately pursued the art of Irish music through one of the most demanding and arcane of instruments, the uillean pipes. The difficulty of obtaining a set at the time led me to make my own and have since striven to refine the design, construction and taming of the mercurial beast. I have since had the honor of playing with the creme de la creme of the Celtic music world and beyond, appearing on over forty recordings.

As I performed and recorded more I became interested in the technicalities of sound, both live and recorded, and have been increasingly invested in sound engineering and producing out of my own studio, as well as designing and selling high end audiophile playback systems, with an eye to vinyl and tube electronics.

The Wounded Hussar, Slieve Russell, The Humours of Balllyloughlin

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