The Freewheeler, by Dougal Adams, Ado Barker & Ben Stephenson

The Freewheeler

by Dougal Adams, Ado Barker & Ben Stephenson

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1.	the Old Bush / the Green Fields of Rossbeigh / Toss the Feathers (reels) 05:14	buy track
2.	Down the Back Lane / the Ballykeal / the Orphan (jigs) 04:44	buy track
3.	the Bank of Ireland / Murphy's Greyhound (reels) 03:30	buy track
4.	the Trip to Athlone / Old Tipperary / Billy McCormack's (jigs) 04:38	buy track
5.	Tommy Bhetty's / Rogha An Ghabha {the Blacksmith's Fancy} (waltz & reel) 04:13	buy track
6.	the Sheep in the Boat / Tommy Mulhaire's / the Hag's Purse (jigs) 05:25	buy track
7.	the Banks of Sullane (air) 02:59	buy track
8.	the Glenside Cottage / Within a Mile of Dublin / the Bunch of Green Rushes (reels) 03:49	buy track
9.	Taim in Arreas / Hardiman the Fiddler (slip jigs) 02:47	buy track
10.	John Egan's / the Shaskeen / the Queen of May (reels) 04:35	buy track
11.	Jim Donoghue's / Jack Coughlan's Favourite (reels) 02:50	buy track
12.	Jenny Picking Cockles / the Mountain Top / the Eel in the Sink (reels) 04:34	buy track

about

‘Anyone who’s been caught by this music will know the feeling, when it’s really flowing, of the tunes somehow playing themselves - perhaps it’s the combination of time and shared experience that does it, but often when we sit down to play it feels like the music just sets itself loose. Recorded live over a chilly Melbourne weekend, this album is an effort to capture a few of those fleeting moments, to catch the elusive sound of the music rolling free.'

Dougal Adams is one of Australian Irish music’s best kept secrets – Glasgow-born, Western Australia-raised, Dougal has long been acknowledged among his peers as one the Irish flute’s finest local exponents. Ado Barker and Ben Stephenson are already well known to Australian folk and world music audiences - as members of seminal Australian-Irish trad band Trouble in the Kitchen they each have, over many years, earned formidable reputations both at home and abroad.

The album draws on a deep reservoir of material, gleaned and gathered over many years playing in both Australia and Ireland. While deeply embedded in the local Irish music scene - Dougal and Ado in Melbourne, Ben in Sydney - all three have spent significant time abroad honing the craft. Ado, in particular, has over the years made something of a second home in Ennis, Co Clare.

Sonically, the recording is distinctive for its deep, rich tone – the tunes have been laid down ‘flat’; that is, recorded a full tone below concert pitch. Evoking the old music of the uilleann pipers, the deeper pitch opens new space within the cascade of melody to explore the ebb and flow of the tunes.

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released October 17, 2015

Dougal Adams - C flute
Ado Barker - fiddle
Ben Stephenson - guitar; C flute (track 11)

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Trouble in the Kitchen Melbourne, Australia

Exciting and innovative Irish music from one of Australia's premier traditional irish bands.

“Australia’s masters of Irish trad”
Acoustic Routes, NZ

“Setting a new standard for traditional Irish music in this country”
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