EastWind
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| Studio album by Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane | |||||
| Released | Mid-1992 | ||||
| Recorded | 1990–February 1991 | ||||
| Studio | Westland studios, Dublin | ||||
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| Length | 40:55 | ||||
| Label | Tara Music | ||||
| Producer | Andy Irvine (executive producer), Bill Whelan (producer) | ||||
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| Hi-Fi News and Record Review | (favourable)" |
EastWind is an album by Andy Irvine & Davy Spillane, showcasing a fusion of Irish folk music with traditional Bulgarian and Macedonian music. Produced by Irvine and Bill Whelan, who also contributed keyboards and piano, it was widely regarded as revolutionary at the time of recording.
The extensive line-up included Nikola Parov on Bulgarian instruments (gadulka, kaval, gaida) & Greek bouzouki, Máirtín O'Connor (accordion), Noel Eccles & Paul Moran (percussion), Tony Molloy (bass), Carl Geraghty & Kenneth Edge (saxophones), John Sheahan (fiddle), Anthony Drennan (guitar), Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin (piano), Márta Sebestyén (vocals) and Rita Connolly (backing vocals).
In an interview with Folk Roots in August 1992, Irvine stated: "We finished it eighteen months ago but (...) John Cook at Tara wanted to try the avenue of big companies." The album was eventually released on the Tara label itself in mid-1992.
Subsequently, Irvine and Parov were joined by Rens van der Zalm and toured together in Europe as the 'East Wind Trio', and then again in the US during 1996, prior to forming the band Mozaik in 2002, which covers several of this album's tracks.
Andy Irvine noted that the album was originally conceived as a Bulgarian/jazz fusion album, and only changed direction "somewhere along the line" during production.
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