Five Countries

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The music of Five Countries migrates like traditional musicians taking their music from Ireland and Scotland to America or from Romania and Hungary to Spain. It takes the sounds of their Five Countries to places and cultures familiar and less so. Songs like Flutter and Flight or the gentle dancing of Izabella's Dream (for Bende's lovely daughter) might carry you to Spain with their echoes of flamenco. Slipreel/Thyme And Tide might remind you first of a bar you know in Galway but hints as well towards North Africa. Remember too that sailors carried these tunes far and wide. Even a tune with it's own defining sense of time and place like Storm on the Irish Sea swirls at times like a Mediterranean squall.

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