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Irish Landscape with Rain

by Louth Contemporary Music Society

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Had times been normal, the veteran Cuban guitarist-composer Leo Brouwer would have been featured artist at this year’s midsummer weekend festival put on by the Louth Contemporary Music Society. But times are not, and the festival had, of course, to be cancelled.

Yet the music goes on. If there was no way for four guitarists to get together to play the piece commissioned for the festival, and no way for an audience to assemble in Dundalk to hear it, Irish Landscape with Rain has been brought to life by electronic means for a limitless public.

The internationally renowned Irish guitarist Alec O’Leary has multitracked a recording available on the Louth society’s website, www.louthcms.org, here on Bandcamp and other digital stores. Irish Landscape with Rain turns out to be a charming greeting conveyed from one island to another. The Irish landscape is there, perhaps, in a snatch of a tune, the rain in the plink-plink-plink of repeated notes. Cuban rhythms play along with this, sending bright Caribbean sunshine through the drizzle to make pure musical rainbows.

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released June 18, 2020
Composer Leo Brouwer
Guitars: Alec O'Leary
Produced by Piotr Furmanczyk
Artwork : Edel Rodriguez

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Louth Contemporary Music Society Dundalk, Ireland

I would say the Louth CMS is particularly significant because of the dedication, love and devotion that drives Eamonn Quinn to seek out special musicians to bring to his corner of the world. These choices are made on musical worth regardless of their commercial potential. It is these kind of risks that keep music alive. Composer – Terry Riley ... more

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