‘Johnny Was A Motor Mechanic’ brings with it a well-known sound that will likely be immediately recognisable with its mix of punk, folks, rock, and jazz to what’s in any other case straight down the road conventional Irish music. From the album, ‘Mike Kirkpatrick and Drovers Limitless Orchestra Vol. 3’, it’s a posthumous homage to Kirkpatrick, who sadly died from most cancers just a few years again.
It’s unhappy that Kirkpatrick by no means lived to see this album launched. Comprising ten tracks, it sees a number of the finest musicians from the jazz, Trad Irish, and experimental worlds come collectively and lay down some licks that would simply as simply be a fly-on-the-wall recording of a jam session as an formally recorded launch. Opening observe, ‘Tomorrow, Pt. 1’, for instance, is a really pleasing piece that, whereas verging on the cacophonic, is nonetheless one that permits every instrumentalist to have their time within the solar. Monitor 2, ‘The Hidden Monitor’, reveals itself as a one thing one may anticipate to listen to a military marching to battle. With uilleann pipes offering a sombre tempo, supported by a gentle drumbeat (in addition to quite a lot of strings), it’s virtually funerary in its pacing.
Our primary focus nonetheless is observe 4, ‘Johnny Was A Meter Mechanic’. Once more, the normal Irish rhythms are there, upbeat and enjoyable, you’ll be able to virtually hear the grins on the faces of the musicians as they play their hearts out. The fiddle is outstanding, and – is that the uilleann pipes once more? Perhaps a Bodhrán as nicely? It’s not possible to not faucet your toes in time to the music, and, should you shut your eyes, think about this being carried out “on the sesh” in a pub down nation in Eire, with the laughs on the finish including to this vibe. Who’s Johnny? What’s a meter mechanic? How does all which have something to do with this rollicking tune? Who is aware of or cares – it’s a grand aul little bit of craic.
Hearken to ‘Johnny Was A Meter Mechanic’ beneath. You could find out extra about The Drovers Limitless Orchestra and their music on-line on Spotify and their official web site.
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