The album Magic Rising contains eleven songs written by Donal Byrne and features his main collaborator, violinist Colin Moore. 
“Magic Rising” is a celebration of our intrinsic connection to the earth, the forests, the seas, the stars, the mystic. With an intoxicating, genre-bending sound and a typically carnivalesque darkness it is a glorious lament of growth and of time passing.

Sha - La Sunday

This is not me playing. This is an old friend of mine called Derek Smith who died a few days ago. He was a wonderful comedian with the stage name "The Amazing Mr Smith" but was also a fine guitarist. His guitar only albums were amongst my most played CDs over the last 10 years. Here is his beautiful arrangement of Peter Maxwell-Davies' "Farewell to Stromness". The mood here completely captures the way many of us feel about his passing. 

(The picture incidentally shows Derek playing his condom harp at one of our charity concerts a few years ago…you get the idea ;) )

Farewell To Stromness, The Amazing Mr Smith. PLEASE read the description

CitiZen of Peace - Now We Fly
(from the album "Intersoul" - details at www.citizenofpeace.net/sounds)

credits:

the Ju/wa Bushmen of Nyae Nyae (Namibia) - vocals, clapping, percussion.
Ignat Karmalito - vocals, tambin flute, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, programming.
Attila Manju - vocals.
Takashi Numazawa - drums.
Latyr Sy - djembe.
Kosuke Tsuji - percussion.
KetaRa - space guitar.

Composed, arranged & produced by Ignat Karmalito.

Recorded by Ignat Karmalito at Mobile Karma lab, except:
Numazawa recorded by Tatsuki Masuko at Float (Tokyo).
Sy & Tsuji recorded by Naoyuki Uchida at GOK (Tokyo).
Field recordings in the Namibian Kalahari made by Ignat Karmalito in spring 2013.
Mixed by Ignat Karmalito.
Additional mixing and mastering by Mitsukazu "Quincy" Tanaka at Bernie Grundman Studios (Tokyo).

Artwork by Sean Caulfield (www.rockartgallery.com).

Executive production by Lifetime Boogie (http://www.lifetimeboogie.jp).

www.citizenofpeace.net

Peace

Now We Fly

Composed of vocalist and songwriter Donal Byrne alongside enigmatic violinist Colin Moore, Willowjack had a previous incarnation in 2014 when Byrne teamed up with songwriter/composer Hugh Doolan to release the single 'Sad and Blue'.

In its present form Willowjack began when Donal Byrne and Colin Moore met at a lighthouse in the west of Ireland a couple of years ago.

"It was a bit strange really - I was down to stay with a friend who owned this lighthouse to jam and write some songs. There was a full on storm blowing and there was Colly outside, cool as you like playing the fiddle into the gale. Surreal!" Donal laughs.

They quickly forged a common bond musically and ideologically, and decided to form a band to take Donal's songs and reconstruct them acoustically with Colin weaving his magic on fiddle.

Sha - La Sunday

Willowjack

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