After the Break

Artist: Planxty Label: Tara Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio Cassette UPC: 790051300142 EAN: 0790051300142 ASIN: B000001JAL Release Date: 1992-10-09

Tracks:

1. Good Ship Kangaroo
2. East at Glendart/Brian O'Lynn/Pay the Reckoning
3. You Rambling Boys of Pleasure
4. Blackberry Blossom/Lucky in Love/The Dairy Maid
5. Rambling Siuler
6. Lady on the Island/The Gatehouse Maid/The Virginia/Callaghan's
7. Pursuit of Farmer Michael Hayes
8. Lord Mcdonald/The Chattering Magpie
9. Bonny Light Horseman
10. Smeceno Horo

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Customer Reviews:

Surpasses the first generation of Planxty - easily.......2004-03-22

Whilst the "punk revolution" might have taken the spotlight away from "After The Break", there is no dount how much the album showed the second generation of Planxty to have developed as musicians. Whereas the songs on first-generation Planxty albums tended to be short but not sharp, leaving the players with too little room to express themselves, on "After The Break" the more opened-out arrangements serve the group perfectly, allowing them to develop sublime melodies and freeing Christy Moore's voice so that it sounded less rough and ready than on early albums.

"The Good Ship Kangaroo" was an amazingly tender opener perfectly expressing the fear inherent in sailing to Australia, and "The Pursiut Of Farmer Michael Hayes" sounded truly modern in its lyrics without sacrificing the character of traditional song - and Planxty managed to produce mood changes a listener would never notice. The jigs "East At Glendart" and "Brian O'Lynn" show the degree to which Planxty moved away from basic Irish music through Matt Molloy's presence on flute. One of the things that made "After The Break" such a special album was the way in which the woodwinds interplayed on "East At Glendart" and "Brian O'Lynn".

The dark "You Rambling Boys Of Pleasure" showed that Planxty could grow in depth and loosen up to beautiful effect without sacrificing their traditional credentials, whilst the raucous reel "The Blackberry Blossom" showed the band playing much more starkly and sharply than on previous albums. Liam O'Flynn gave the same ecstatic emotion on uillean pipes that made Kate Bush's "Night Of The Swallow" so incredible, aided again by Molloy's melodic flute in the background. The forthright, eerie yet catchy "The Rambling Siýler" was the strongest song here: fast and simple, yet so true a story that one is shocked that Christy Moore can maintain his feeling without despair, and "The Bonny Light Horseman" almost managed the same trick to the same degree.

Besides their use of beautiful, dark flute melodies, Planxty closed "After The Break" with a surprise in the form of the Bulgarian dance tune "Smeceno Horo". Illustrating the connection between Irish and East European culture, the tender flute sounded quite like a pipe in some places, and "Smeceno Horo" really was far more danceable than anything ever mut out by English folk groups: the rhythm was emphasised to compensate for the absence of melodic, touching vocals. Moreover, the song changes rhythm so abruptly that Planxty makes one never notice it at all.

Sharper, yet at the same time more expansive and more tuneful, this album and its follow-up "The Woman I Loved So Well" are where pLanxty showed themselves the undoubted masters of Irish folk music. Hard to find, but worth the effort.

Essential Celtic Title.......1999-07-19

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