Feadoga Stain [Import]

Feadoga Stain [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Bergin's Range, Sweetness and Versatility on the Tin Whistle Has a Clarify, Freshness and Easy Fluency, which Rinse the Ear.

Tracks:

The Flogging Reel/The Ivy Leaf/Trim The Velvet
The Maid On The Green/The Mooncoin Jig
Eileen Curran/Lomanach Cross/Billy Brocker's/Miss Thorton's Reel
Aisling Gheal
Julia Clifford's/Jenny Lind's Polka/The Mountain Pathway
The Humours Of Ballyconnell/Father Dollard's Hornpipe
Rigaudon/The Cameronian
Richard Dwyer's/Miss McDonald
Sliabh Russell/Kitty's Rambles/Padraig O'Keeffe's
Dulaman Na Binne Bui/A Stor, A Stor, A Ghra/The Blackhaired Lass
Gus Jordan's/Big Pat's Reel/Sweeney's Dream/Eddie Moloney's
Seolfaimid Araon Na Geanna Romhainn
The Galtee Rangers/The Gneevgullia Reel/Paddy Kelly's
O'Callaghan's/Cooley's
Micho Russell's Reel/The Laurel Tree/The Woman Of The House

Customer Reviews:

Airy Brillance!.......2007-04-26

Whether you have been listening to Irish traditional music all your life or you have recently started, seriously consider adding both these albums (Feadog Stain one and two) to your music collection. They are simply wonderful albums! Despite some sound quality issues on her first album (which are fairly minor) this stands as one of the greatest recordings of Irish music ever made. The second recording picks up were the first left off, with the benefit of clearer sound.

This isn't the slick, over produced new agey fare encountered in movie sound tracks of late. This is the real stuff; genuine hard driving dance tunes and moving slow airs played by great musicians.

Queen Mary of the Tin Whistle! Pioneering Early Work........2003-01-25

Failte! (Greetings). Feadoga Stain ("whistle tunes" in Irish Gaelic)number one was seriously handicapped by the music recording technology of the mid 1970's. However, don't dare to criticize the playing unless you can play along and keep pace. The tinwhistle and the bodhran (Irish Drum, pronounced Boe-rahn or Bow-rahn) are the very best of the best ever recorded. The second recording is not as handicapped for recording technology, and is a real gem of Celtic Music history. Mary is in an elite group of musicians that includes Paddy Moloney, Joannie Madden, Laurence Nugent, and Joe McKenna. Her fluid, fast paced tunes are her trademark sound. Mary was doing fast paced, fluid whistling in the mid 1970's, and stretched the envelope for playing forever more. The same can be said of Johnny McDonagh. Current bodhran players are playing fast paced doublets and triplets, using drums without crossbars, using a backside technique to alter the tone, use a full range of tones, use rim strokes to accent, and are playing expressively to the music. Guess who pioneered these techniques in the early and mid 1970's? It may even be fair to say that this percussion instrument would have been relegated to a historic artifact status if Johnny hadn't streched the envelope by a wide margin. Previously, the bodhran was an outdoor instrument for parades and wakes, with the performer playing loudly and dancing at the same time. Johnny is in an elite group of Bodhran players that include Tommy Hayes, Kevin Conneff (Cheiftains), Frank Torpey(Nomos), John Joe Kelly (Flook) and Donnchadh Gough(Danu). Mary and Johnny together have a set of jigs and reels here that can be said to be the prototype of fine Irish music for these instruments over the last three decades. How about a reunion album? Feodoga Stain 3? Eire go Brach! (Ireland Forever!).

Feadoga Stain was a washout, but FS2 is a winner........2000-06-15

I find Mary Bergin to be phenomenal. There is simply no other word for it. Her playing provokes the same reaction that Scruggs's banjo-picking did: where'd all those notes come from?

If you like tin whistle, buy this disc.

Tracks:

Reels: Ril Gan Ainm/Ah Surely/The Union Reel
Reels: Miss Johnson's/Mike Russell's
Jigs: Tom Billy's/The Langstern Pony
Reels: Sean Reid's/The Drunken Landlady
Slow AIr: Liam O Raghallaigh
Reels: Mrs. Crehan's/Gerry Commane's /The Rainy Day
Jigs: Port Sean Seosamh /Sean Trobrad Arann /The Wheels Of The World
Reels: The Blackberry Blossom/Maud Miller/Up To Your Knees In Sand
Reels: Garraf Na Bhfeileoig /Miss Galvin
Reels: The Lady On The Island/The Concert Reel/The Hut In The Bog
Slow Air: Mo Mhuirnin Ban
Slow Air: Mick's Hand's The Reel Of Mullinavat
Jigs: The Monaghan Jig /Nora Crionna
Reels: Kitty Gone A Milking/Last Night's Fun/The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Customer Reviews:

For Tin Whistle Lovers.......2007-04-02

When I first heard Feadoga Stain it scared me! Mary Bergin plays so fast! At least I thought so. I had been trying to learn to play the Irish tin whistle and I had bought this CD to see how Irish songs should sound. I had been stumbling through "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" trying to get the notes and tempo right. The speed with which Mary Bergin plays an Irish reel left me in the dust! I figured she had to be showing off so I put on a CD by The Chieftains. Nope, she's not showing off; the Irish do play that fast! For people who love the sound of this sweet, inexpensive little instrument, this CD is for you. It showcases the tin whistle ("feadoga stain" in celtic) with very little accompaniment. She plays traditional Irish music from fast reels and jigs to slow airs. I use her music as an inspiration while I work on perfecting my skills on the tin whistle.

Essential and Historic!.......2005-02-21

Well, after Coleman, Cooley, Killoran, O'Brien, and OC the modern - but sadly rarely recorded, Paddy Cronin ( Irish Traditional Fiddler ) ..to mention a few and not leaving out Matt Molloy 'An Ri na Ceol' IMHO - I thought I had heard it all.

Wrong!

This is not merely essential, it is the foundation of modern Itrad since it contains everything and some more that modern and earlier exponents of the art are striving to express but not quite delivering the goods.

If you want to be astonished and surprised again like the first time you heard Coleman, Cooley or indeed any of the great exponents of the art, then go buy and be reborn to a new level of Irtrad!

an amazing work!.......2004-05-01

I have literally hundreds of Celtic CDs and albums. I have been playing whistle, fiddle, and mandolin for 30+ years. Other than family, it is the one true love of my life. This is easily one of the best albums I have come across. The joy that pours out of each track is astounding. For technical people, her playing is totally clean, at an unbelievable speed. This makes the awesomely lovely Tin Whistles album by Potts and Moloney look like a warmup. This is the pure, true, real Irish music at its best. Mary has really raised the bar with this one, in quality and performance. It is an act of love.

Mary Bergin Sets TheGold Standard of Irish Tin Whistle Music.......2002-07-13

This album is perhaps the single most influential recording of tin tin whistle music ever made.

The majority of the tracks are traditional Irish jigs and reels, but Bergin's dynamic style and astounding technical mastery of the instrument set an entirely new standard to which most if not all players of the tin whistle now aspire.

Each track features either solo work by Bergin, or Bergin accompanied by a bouzouki and/or a bodhran (the traditional Irish drum) or bones (that's right, rib bones used as highly distinctive percussion instruments). For those masochistic whistle players who wish to try to play along, the liner notes include the key of the whistle she plays on each track. I cant recommend any one track over another, they are all my favorites...and thanks to the wonders of Amazon technolgy you can hear samples using the links above. The music speaks for itself.

Mary Bergin Sets TheGold Standard of Irish Tin Whistle Music.......2002-07-13

This album is perhaps the single most influential recording of tin tin whistle music ever made.