Budawanny, by Roger Doyle

Budawanny

by Roger Doyle

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James Sidlo Beautiful and haunting piano pieces.

Ronan Keane A beautiful, uplifting album. My 3-year-old walked into the room and declared "This is good music!" and my wife commented that it was really peaceful sounding. In parts it reminds me prime Zappa like Uncle Meat or Burnt Weeny Sandwich. Favorite track: Budawanny Opening Music.

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Remastered CD in jewel case with 4 page inlay card, released in 2002 on the Silverdoor label.

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INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS NOT ON CD (tks. 15-17), totalling c.23 minutes of music. Track 14 is a 'name your price' download.

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The live recording of the full concert of Doyle's music by the Netherlands Wind (Blazers) Ensemble, recorded in The Hague 1999. Some tracks included as bonus digital tracks on Budawanny album. CD only. 5 unplayed copies found.

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1.	Budawanny Opening Music 07:19		buy track
2.	Priest On Motorbike 03:28		buy track
3.	Moving In 02:37		buy track
4.	Inspecting The House 03:57		buy track
5.	The Storm 03:41		buy track
6.	The Vigil 07:42		buy track
7.	Pregnant 01:09		buy track
8.	The Boat Race 04:06		buy track
9.	The Dance 01:54		buy track
10.	The Parting 00:59		buy track
11.	Ecce 02:36		buy track
12.	Budawanny 02:41		buy track
13.	Atlantean 13:52	info	buy track
14.	Amhrán Mhuighinnse 03:17	info	buy track
15.	Under The Green Time [bonus track] 06:35	info	buy track
16.	Tradarr (bonus track) 11:07	info	buy track
17.	Amhrán Mhuighinnse (live bonus track) 04:50	info	buy track

about

In 1986 film-maker Bob Quinn asked me to compose music for his film Budawanny. The music was to play a central role in the film, which was shot as a silent film in black and white with captions appearing when people spoke. It required seventy minutes of music to be composed for it, uninterrupted by anyone talking over it (a composer's dream). It has elements of Irish traditional music, European art music and middle-eastern music.
Set in the west of Ireland the film tells the story of a priest and a woman who fall in love and the tragic events that follow. Budawanny is the Irish for 'monk's penis'.
The Budawanny music presented here is a forty two minute suite and a listening experience in its own right. It was originally released on cassette (1987), LP (1990) and CD in 2002. The titles of its 12 pieces are referential rather than attempting to convey any story.
Atlantean, from 1983, is a 3-part film (also made by Bob Quinn) about the maritime Irish and their North African/Middle-Eastern connections. It proposes that, apart from Scandinavian, Iberian and Norman incursions, the island of Ireland has enjoyed ancient and continuous influences from Morocco, Libya, Egypt etc. The thousand-year-old Irish Sean-Nós singing is evidence of this fact. The theme music of Atlantean integrates both Middle-Eastern and Irish resonances.
By improvising at the piano whilst working on the Atlantean music I had a feeling of unearthing a buried musical seam. I found that I had a powerful link to the ideas the film was propounding and was very moved by Sarah Grealish's Sean-Nós (old style) singing that Bob had included in the film. This music was like old weeds coming up through the tarmacam that the Catholic Church and Tourist Board had covered Ireland with. It didn't feel European. Playing it myself and so easily finding other musicians to play with me was proof to me that something remains in our blood of other Irelands, uncharted.

credits

released September 1, 2012

All music composed and played by Roger Doyle PRS © and ℗ 1983, 1986, 1995, and 1999 except 13-17 as credited. Tracks can be downloaded as WAV or MP3 files. Total time: c.82 minutes (download), 59 minutes (CD).

Design: MacArters, Ronan Lynch. Recording engineer (Budawanny) Donal Hurley, recorded in Durham Road Studios. Tracks 11 and 13 (up to 2'36) composed on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument at STS studio.
Track 13 (from 2'36) recorded live at the National Concert-Hall, Dublin, February 1990. Recording engineer: Terry McManus. Roger Doyle: synthesiser; Ger Flanagan: fiddle; Seán Devitt: hand drum; Trevor Knight: synthesiser.
Track 14 Sarah Grealish: sean-nós singing (trad. arr. R. Doyle).
3 BONUS TRACKS: Under The Green Time - Roger Doyle: composition, electronics and production; in collaboration with Brian O'Huiginn: uilleann pipes. An image of Ireland without the sweet Celtic wrapping. Commissioned by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, in 1995, for Distant Relations, a travelling exhibition of Mexican, Chicano and Irish art.
Tradarr - Sarah Grealish, uilleann piper Brian O'Huiginn and The Netherlands Wind Ensemble in concert in the Nieuwe Kirk, The Hague, October 1999. Commissioned by The NWE.
Amhrán Mhuighinnse (live) - Sarah Grealish and The Netherlands Wind Ensemble in concert in The Hague in 1999.

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Roger Doyle Ireland

Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. Works with a multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.

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