Ail Fionn - seven albums
Ail Fionn is a folk/traditional music duo consisting of Matthew on the saz and Inge on mandolin. For a good while Matthew and Inge were traveling musicians playing throughout Europe and The British Isles often with other local musicians or buskers. A number of their recordings documenting their in-the-field improvisations can be found at The Internet Archive’s Open Source collection. Five of the recordings span the years from 1995 to 2005. The Snailfriends albums are a collection of jams from various places and dates involving Ail Fionn and friends. These are casual on-the spot sessions. Ali Fionn plays primarily Welsh and Celtic music but all of Europe’s varied traditional musics tend to get blended in the mix. I’m not going to describe each album as they are pretty much similar except to say they are all worth a listen if you like Celtic music, instrumental traditional music, or folk. Do start with the Snailfriends collections and go from there. Ail Fionn belongs to a loose collective of musicians in Exeter, UK called Children of the Drone. So if you like the music, you might want to check out the web site and see what the other members are up to.
The albums are available in separate tracks or full album zip in either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format.
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Sint-Niklaas, Samhain 1995
Cadamstown 1997
Sint-Niklaas, Spring 2001
Lodes, Autumn 2002
Les Hourquets, March 2005
Snailfriends 1
Snailfriends 2
“Ail Fionn belongs to a loose collective of Welsh musicians in Exeter, UK called Children of the Drone” - not quite - no Welsh musicians in COTD! And no Inge, either - just Matthew.
Comment by Matthew — August 5, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
Ok, I removed the Welsh part but since at least half of Ail Fionn is in Children of the drone I’ll let the other part stand with your correction.
Comment by Marvin — August 5, 2008 @ 2:44 pm