Playing with fire | Recorded in 1995 | Buy this album now
Fast becoming one of the major touring acts Dervish play dynamic Irish traditional music with a contemporary edge, while remaining faithful to the legacy of the past.
Album Review
Playing With Fire, the follow-up to their highly acclaimed Harmony Hill album of two years ago, is more than a worthy successor to that illustrious debut. This is an album of contrasts: with lively instrumentals - jigs, Reels and slides mixed in seamlessly with bare plaintive songs featuring the mellow voice of Cathy Jordan. Placing a strong emphasis on the rhythmic structures of the tunes using guitars, mandolin and bouzouki combined with melodic elements of accordion, fiddle and flute, Dervish's performance combines an instinctive zeal which at times ignites into an incendiary mélange of sound. Cathy Jordan's voice leaps like a butterfly across the melodies of songs like "Johnny And Molly", "Cailin Rue" and "Wille lennnox". Of the Instrumentals, the reels "last Night's Fun", the hila
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Track Listing
- Buckley's Fancy
- Molly And Johnny
- Last Nights Fun
- Wheels Of The World
- Maire Mor
- I Buried My Wife
- The Hungry Rock
- Cailin Rua
- Ash Plant Set
- Peigin Mo Chroi
- The Game Of Love
- Willie Lennox
- Let Down The Blade
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