The Last Bell | Alan Kelly Gang
Release Date: Sept 2014 (Ire) / Jan 2015 (UK)
BBM 007
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★★★★ “This is a party looking for a crowd” Irish Times
★★★★ Liverpool Sound & Vision
“Alan Kelly has done it again, along with his choice musical gang… the appeal of this new release seems endless… It’s most definitely a winner.” Irish Music Magazine
“The Alan Kelly Gang manage to sound like a ceilidh band, a jazz combo, a first class session, and even a Fest Noz in full flight for the wonderful Hopvotte. To pigeonhole this as Irish traditional music is woefully inadequate, but that core is unmistakable, as is the band’s own distinctive and irrepressible sound” The Living Tradition
“one of the best Irish bands playing today” New York Irish Arts
“refined and exciting in all the right places” fRoots
Stalwarts of contemporary trad, the Alan Kelly Gang are a creative force all about tasteful arrangements, groove, energy and musicality of the highest order. Their superb new album, The Last Bell, which has been over a year in the making, is an uplifting, pristine collection of original and traditional music that inspires a feeling of joie de vivre throughout. 12 tracks – 8 instrumentals and 4 songs.
Produced by Capercaille’s Manus Lunny and includes Alan Kelly Gang members:
Alan Kelly (piano accordion)
Steph Geremia (flute, lead vocals, whistle & soprano sax)
Alasdair White (fiddle)
Tony Byrne (guitar)
Manus Lunny (bouzouki, guitar, harmony vocals & additional programming)
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS:
Ewen Vernal (double bass)
Jim Higgins (percussion)
Martin O’Neill (bodhran)
Eddi Reader (guest lead vocal & harmony vocals)
Aidan Brennan (guitar & harmony vocals)
Ian Carr (guitar)
John Douglas (guitar & harmony vocals)
