Port Na bPúcaí - Haunting Irish Air on Low D Whistle

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3 жыл бұрын

There is no slow air quite like Port Na bPúcaí. The tune was with one of the last fiddle players to leave the Blasket Islands when they were evacuated in the 1950s. Various stories tell that the tune was heard by an Islander one night carried by the wind. Perhaps it was the lament for the death of a Fairy or Water Sprite.
This beautiful, haunting melody connects us directly to another world, one governed by ancient spirits that inhabit our surroundings.
Download the track here:
shanekerwin.bandcamp.com/track/port-na-bp-ca
Images are Creative Commons or used with permission.
UCD Digital Library - digital.ucd.ie/
Alex Mustard - www.amustard.com/
Darren Jew - darrenjew.com/
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Пікірлер: 23

@davidpaterson1207 Жыл бұрын

I'm a sucker for the low D,Shane.Truly beautiful and haunting Air,sensitively played.Thanks!

@shaynewheeler9249 Жыл бұрын

Irish ship Titanic

@galsholder2317 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating, and mesmerizing tune.

@alro11 Жыл бұрын

hauntingly beautiful ❤

@joeyfortuna 3 жыл бұрын

I'm reading the Tiffany Aching cycle of Terry Pratchett's Discworld to my daughter. Although the series is set in the fictional universe of Discworld, Pratchett omits a lot of the Discworld place references in lieu of descriptions of the Chalk and the sheep-dotted green hills of the Aching family farm. Pratchett died in Wiltshire (Broad Chalke) -- and his treatment of the mythology of the area is evocative of this music, and these images. Although it's about as far south in England as one can get from The Basket Islands, one has to imagine the fair folk weren't bound by trivialities like the ocean. Particular before deforestation. We played this song faintly in the background while reading the opening of "The Wintersmith." Thank you!

@shaynewheeler9249 Жыл бұрын

Irish whiskey

@yox465 Жыл бұрын

My mother grew up in Kerryhead overlooking the Blaskets. The music felt familiar like a lost memory.

@patrickodonnell4109 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful !! Thank you 🎶

@billy10100 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful interpretation Shane...and video:)

@electraruby4078 Жыл бұрын

Irish music reveals th Irish soul.

@mjh5437 5 ай бұрын

Drunk?

@alarmerads Жыл бұрын

När jag får syn på båten,curraugh, strömmar minnena över mig från resan till Aran-öarna och när jag färdades i en curraugh från fraktbåten och in till land. Vi var på atlanten med lite dyning annars lugnt

@jamesbutler6253 Жыл бұрын

Hej! Förvånad att se en svensk här. Jag är från Irland fast bosatt i Sverige sen 1996.

@colinjames7569 Жыл бұрын

Surreal ❤

@colinjames7569 8 ай бұрын

Home ❤

@whothennow24 Жыл бұрын

This is Port na Bpucai (“Music of the Fairies”).

@gerryscully9248 Жыл бұрын

BPucai means ghosts or spirits as Gaeilge not ‘fairies’ .... fairy would be ‘Sidhe’ and the title is also wrong ‘song of the gostd would be Amhrain na bPucai not ‘port’

@derekabbott84 2 ай бұрын

And port means jig