Áilleacht / Beauty

About ‘Áilleacht / Beauty’

Artist: Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin

Label: Irish Song

Runtime: 50:31

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Release credits

Produced, arranged, engineered and mixed by: Steve Cooney
(except track 10: An Leannán / The Beloved, arranged by Palle Mikkelborg; engineered and mixed by Oli Poulsen)

Additional mixing: Billy Robinson

Mastering: Mid Atlantic Digital.

Studios: All tracks recorded: Éiníní Recording Studio, Teelin, Carrick, Co Donegal; Fix-n- Mix Studios, Copenhagen; Cappagh Studio, Kilkenny.

Design: Kasper Zier, www.creativelaundry.ie

Photography: Geray Sweeney, Marcello Biglia.

Musicians:

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin - vocals
Steve Cooney - guitars, keyboard, percussion, sitar, shruti box, vocals
Brian Dunning - flutes, alto
Iarla Ó Lionáird - vocals
Laoise Kelly - Irish harp
Ódhrán Ó Casaide - fiddle, uileann pipes
Helen Davies - harp
Palle Mikkelborg - trumpet
Mikkel Nordsø - guitar

All tracks lyrics/ airs: Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin IMRO/MCPS except lyrics track 8: Cruit Dhubhrois by Biddy Jenkinson from her collection entitled Mis published by Coiscéim, 2001. Also published in Rogha Dánta, Biddy Jenkinson, Cork University Press, 2000. All translations/ aistriúcháin: Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin except track 8: Liam Mac an Iomaire.

Album reviews

This is a deceptively sophisticated composition in which a profound emotional disturbance is articulated apparently without artifice, impressing itself on the listener as though it were actual and direct speech. It is a fitting conclusion to a substantial and deeply satisfying piece of work.

– Louis de Paor (on 'Gleann na nDeor')

Oriel songwriter and singer Páidrigín Ní Uallacháin refuses to be bound by the vacuum that could easily tether a traditional singer to the past. Áilleacht/Beauty is a three-dimensional, swarthy gathering of contemporary songs, all from Ní Uallacháin’s pen. Spanning an ocean’s breadth of human emotions, from platonic friendship (Gold and Silk) to sensual love (The Kiss) and the ultimate spiritual freedom (Free Spirit), she melds lyric and music with the singer’s ear for detail [...] Áilleacht/ Beauty is a refreshing elixir that propels our song tradition forwards.

– Siobhán Long, The Irish Times

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