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The EastWind album, from Andy Irvine
Andy Irvine (musician)
Andrew Kennedy 'Andy' Irvine is a folk musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the popular band Planxty. He is an accomplished player of the mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, guitar-bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy....

 & Davy Spillane
Davy Spillane
Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...

, serves as a musical meeting of Celtic Music
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...

 and World Music. It was widely regarded as revolutionary at the time of recording.

Track listing

  1. "Chetvorno Horo" 3:48
  2. "The Bear's Rock" 3:31
  3. "Dance of Suleiman" 5:30
  4. "Illyrian Dawn" 3:25
  5. "Pride of Macedonia" 3:17
  6. "Antice" 5:42
  7. "Two Steps to the Bar" 4:07
  8. "Kadana" 5:42
  9. "Hard on the Heels" 5:53


Personnel

  • Andy Irvine
    Andy Irvine (musician)
    Andrew Kennedy 'Andy' Irvine is a folk musician, singer, and songwriter, and a founding member of the popular band Planxty. He is an accomplished player of the mandolin, bouzouki, mandola, guitar-bouzouki, harmonica and hurdy-gurdy....

      - bouzouki & hurdy gurdy.
  • Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...

     - uilleann pipes & low whistle.
  • Nikola Parov - gadulka, kaval, gaida & bouzouki.
  • Bill Whelan
    Bill Whelan
    Bill Whelan, is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The end result, Riverdance, was a seven-minute display of traditional Irish dancing that became a full-length stage production and spawned a worldwide craze...

     - keyboards & piano.
  • Anthony Drennan - guitar.
  • Tony Molloy - bass.
  • Paul Moran - percussion.
  • Noel Eccles - percussion.
  • Máirtín O'Connor
    Máirtín O'Connor
    Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist who began playing the accordion at the age of nine, and his career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups including, Midnight Well, De Dannan, The Boys of the Lough, and Skylark....

     - accordion.
  • Carl Garaghty - saxophone.
  • Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
    Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
    Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is an Irish musician. As a pianist, composer, recording artist and academic, he holds the Professorship of Music at the Irish World Music Centre of the University of Limerick...

     - piano.
  • Márta Sebestyén
    Márta Sebestyén
    Márta Sebestyén is a Hungarian folk vocalist, as well as a composer and actress.Sebestyén's mother is a composer, and was a music student of Zoltán Kodály. Her father was an economist and author. When Sebestyén was seven years old, her father, returning from a trip to the U.S...

     - vocals.
  • Rita Connolly
    Rita Connolly
    Rita Connolly is a Dublin-born singer who has lived and worked in Ireland. She is primarily known for her work with composer Shaun Davey Shaun Davey who wrote a song cycle for her called 'Granuaile' based on the 16th century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley as well as including her in other of his...

    - backing vocals.


Produced by - Bill Whelan.

Executive producer - Andy Irvine.

Recorded at - Westland Studios, Dublin.

Engineered by - Philip Begley.
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