Irish Fiddle This is unusual, I think. This past weekend, we went to a flea market near our place in Brooklyn, and I bought a Sony TC-864 portable audio reel-to- reel tape recorder, from 1964. It works perfect, and is rather heavy, around 12-13 pounds. Anyway, there was a five-inch reel of tape on it, recorded with four separate mono tracks, each about 45-50 minutes. They are apparently Irish field recordings from nearly forty years ago. I found the fiddle fantastic and complex, and have put up (greatly compressed) the first 48 minutes at my site. I have no idea who the fiddler is. There is also vocal, some guitar, some flat-picked violin (really), and some odd 'experimental' work to come, if people are interested. I'll leave these recordings up for a few days - please check out - http://www.alansondheim.org/ir1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/ir2.mp3 I prefer the second, but both are amazing. If anyone can identify the fiddler, please let me know - somewhat should release this material, if it hasn't been. - Alan _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
