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This tune set:
Boyle's Heir • Lesa MacEwan • Fionnlagh's First Foray • The Curmudgeon - All Aaron Shaw Runsk Music

Aaron wrote the first tune at the request of Jeremy Boyle.  The writing was going nowhere until he received this poem from Jeremy. 

Ancestors
The limbs that move, the eyes  that see, these are not entirely me;
Dead men and women helped to shape, the mold that I do not escape;
The words I speak, the written line, these are not uniquely mine.
For in my heart and in my will, old ancestors are warring still:
Celt, Roman, Saxon, and all the dead, from whose rich blood my veins are fed;
In aspect, gesture, voices, tone, flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone;
In fields they tilled, I plow the sod, I walk the mountain paths they trod; 
Around my daily steps arise- the good, the bad- those I comprise.

Richard Rolle c.1300-1349. (Early English Mystic)

The second air he wrote for his wife, Lesa (of "Aaron and Lesa" fame- see the 'Hammered" album)  "Fionnlagh's First Foray" recalls the first games attended by his son, Finn and the last tune was written for another member of the band.  Hmmm...

Musicans:
Aaron Shaw - Bagpipes
Warren Casey - Percussion
Keith Jones - Percussion
Jay Atwood - Didgeridoos and Irish Bronze-age horn

Produced by: Thistle Pricks Productions (TM) & Scott Fraser
Co-produced by: Jay Atwood

Recording & Mastering: Scott Fraser at Architecture, Los Angeles, CA.

The Curmudgeon

Bulgarian Folk Trio + one - This is a recording of a live performance on KCBX, San Luis Obispo. Recorded around June 1980. Members of the BFT were: Hector Bezanis, Gaida (Bulgarian Bagpipes) - Marcus Holt, Gadulka (Bulgarian Fiddle) - Dwight Rowe, Tambura (Bulgarian ong-necked metal-strung lute) +one: Warren Casey, Tupan (a large frame drum)

Pravo Horo

A Medieval Group rehearsal that I was a member of in the early 1990s. This was put together by Ethan James (now deceased) on hurdy gurdy, portative organ. Warren Casey on percussion and I can't recall the rest of the band - sometimes we were 4 or 5 with two violas and harp. This was recorded at my house in Burbank on May 8, 1992. Many of the instruments were built by Ethan James. The tar I play I built.

Warren Casey

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