Rubai [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Features Ed Boyd (guitar); Sarah Allen, Brian Finnegan (flute); John Joe Kelly (bodhran). Contains 9 tracks. Flook. 2005.

Tracks:

Pod: Baldy Hollow
Pod: The Empty Pod
Ballybrolly Jigs: The North Star/The Ghost Of Ballybrolly/Mulineira De Santalla D'Ozcos
Beehive: The Beehive/Poon Hill/Vladimir's Steamboat
Glass: Glass Polska
G.D's: Hooper's Loop
G.D.'s: Pressed For Time
Granny: Greanny In The Attic
Granny: Blue Ball/The False Proof
Rosbeg: Suiamhneas Intinne
Rosbeg: Rosbeg
Larry: Kalamantinos
Larry: Larry Get Out Of The Bin/Elzic's Farewell
Natterjack: Ramnee Ceilidh/Natterjack's Reel/Conlagh's Big Day

Customer Reviews:

My favorite Celtic CD.......2006-01-15

Flook's Rubai quickly bacame the favorite album in my colleciton. It is so full of imagery, energy, life and (mostly) happiness, it's infectious. Would that all infections were so life-giving!
My two favorites on th disc are "Beehive: The Beehive/Poon Hill/Vladimir's Steamboat" Especially on the third part, I can see myself as a lad, running down the banks of the river, trying to keep up with the steamboat puffing along.
The other is Granny In The Attic. I can almost hear her up there, puttering around, humming or singing a little ditty, then worrying about some object or other, then going back to puttering and singing. It's so sweet, I get a tear or two.
I expect this will quickly become one of your favorites as well.

The BEST Irish music I've heard!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-11-16

My Irish Step dance teacher let me and my class dance to this cd,
and all I have to say, is this is the best Irish dance music I've ever heard! My dance teacher burned this cd for me.
I got my copy FREE!!!!
Flook has that classic, but modern Irish charm, I love the guitar!
FLOOK FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

So amazing that my 18 yr. old son stole it from me!.......2004-11-27

I heard Flook on LiveIreland.com, and immediately wanted to know where to get the music. Well I tried to find the CD while I was in Ireland during the summer of 2003, and again in 2004, all to no avail. I finally ordered it last year directly from their distributor but my son absconded with the CD after hearing it just once; he's a tenor sax player!

If you want to hear truly incredible musicians play music that really defies Celtic or Irish music boundries, get Flook. You'll be hooked!.

Time to get Flooked! Refreshingly New Celtic, Fusion Sound!.......2004-10-26

Celtic Music is reincarnated yet again! This quartet is anything but a flook. This is intelligently, creatively arranged music with a tightly designed, interwoven quartet sound from excellent musicians. If you were weaving on a Scottish or Irish loom, you would have strands for flute, whistle, button accordian leads driven by strands for a snappy rhythm guitar and the bouncey beat of irish drum. The result is an incredible range, from a jazz fusion flavor, to Latino, to Celtic Traditional. The Flook sound is the interplay of two teams, a two instrument lead, plus a two instrument guitar and bodhran rhythm. It is a carefully crafted sound with two instrument leads hitting the same notes, as if one instrument. Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen can be said have established a Flook trademark double lead. At other times, they have interwoven harmonies and counterpoints. It is surprising that John Joe Kelley's bodhran (Irish Drum) is carrying the rhythm throughout with enormous versatility. The backside of the drum head is being manipulated to bring the sound up and down to fast paced doublets and triplets. Ed Boyd contributes excellent chord progressions to make this an amazing, pace setting, double rhythm. Their first album, Flatfish, highlights their second album as proof of the primary quartet fully developing their
chemistry. My hope is that Flook stays together and continue in the direction of creative quartet arrangements. This album is exceptionally well reviewed in the United Kingdom, and an undiscovered gem in the United States. If you are a American (Neo)Celtic Music fan, its time to get "flooked."

Absolute best of the neo-Celtic bands.......2004-04-22

These people are insane. More energy, more smarts, more sheer musicality than any ten other Irish or Scottish new Celtic groups. Their tunes literally dance out of the speakers with a wildly infections groove seldom if ever found in the music of any other bands, no matter what the genre.

It's almost as if they've figured out how to play Celtic music in an entirely new and glorious way. Something mysterious is going down here, perhaps tied to "a few sonic contributions" from the band's "ingenious engineer, Mark Tucker," reminiscent of similar contributions another Tucker, Tucker Martine, has made to North American bands Mylab and the 4 + 1 Ensemble.

Tracks:

Pod
Ballybrolly Jigs
Beehive
Glass
G.D.'S
Granny
Rosbeg
Larry
Natterjack

Album Description

2002 album from the ever popular Flook. The outstanding four piece comprises the flute of Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen, the guitar of Ed Boyd and bodhran of John Joe Kelly. Rubai means - a four line poem in perfect rhyme, full of music, rhythm and breath. Digipak.

Album Details

Nine Tracks of Cool and Transfixing Tunes this Formidable Quartet Show all the Electrifying Live Energy that They Do on Stage.

Average customer rating:

Rubai
Flook
Manufacturer: Flatfish
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00006FN8F
Release Date: 2002-08-01

Average customer rating:

Rubai
Flook
Manufacturer: Red Club
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Pod
Ballybrolly Jigs
Beehive
Glass
GDs
Granny
Rosbeg
Larry
Natterjack

Album Description

Average customer rating:

Rubai
Flook
Manufacturer: Flatfish
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002B6NL2
Release Date: 2002-07-26

Music Album:

Music Album