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Alternative, acoustic, folk, harmony, duo, Ireland.

Werkelijk prachtig, ze mogen blijven in huize Mac.

“The Lost Brothers harmonies are to die for, as near as a duo have got to the mastery of The Everlys and The Louvin Brothers' tender close harmony singing that I've heard anywhere near these shores." - Richard Hawley

A hymn to Ireland

In a genre, Americana, where close-harmony duos spring up like corn, Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland have forged a singular path over five previous albums. Their progress has been evolutionary – useful in a country where “paying dues” is still esteemed – with each album recorded in a new town with a new producer. After the Fire After the Rain was made in New York City but is rooted in their native Ireland, its songs written in an old hotel in County Monaghan, hymning a land of “rain, dreams and storms”. It comes across, however, like the soundtrack to a gothic western – Cold Mountain, perhaps – full of desolate moods, intricate guitar-picking and sublime vocals pitched midway between the brothers Everly and Louvin.

Opener Fugitive Moon was inspired by the Boyne, but has mournful pedal steel and lonesome harmonica. Among guest luminaries, co-producer Tony Garnier is the duo’s ace in the hole. Bob Dylan’s long-time sideman lends the record its pulse, his double bass plucking out minimal, buoyant lines over which dance intricate guitars and the odd flourish of horns. The songs are reflective but potent, their ravages of fire and flood haunting and timely.

Tracks:
01. Fugitive Moon
02. Medicine Wine
03. Eight Hundred Miles
04. Six Mile Cross
05. After the Fire
06. Venus
07. Hope Machine
08. Ash Wednesday
09. Wilderness
10. After the Rain
11. Glens of Gortin

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

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