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Dodo Street: Natural Selection

Dodo Street: Natural Selection (Nimbus NI 6369)

Natural Selection
Dodo Street

Nimbus Records NI 6369 (CD, UK, 5 April 2019)

Produced and mixed by Murray Grainger, Adam Summerhayes and Cormac Byrne;
Recorded by Murray Grainger and Mark Rice;
Recording of fledging dodo calls on track 1 by Brian Boothby;
Mastered by Jon Astley

Folking.com review by Mike Wistow

Musicians

Piers Adams: recorders;
Murray Grainger: accordion, accordina;
Malcolm Creese: bass;
Adam Summerhayes: fiddle, mandola, melodeon;
Cormac Byrne: bodhrán, percussion

Tracks

  1. Leave Me Alone (5.20)
  2. Flight of the Dodo (5.22)
  3. Neil Gow’s Lament (6.33)
  4. Larking (3.20)
  5. Egg in a Jar (4.42)
  6. Dodo’s Lament / Dark Island / Waterman’s / Splendid Isolatioin (7.28)
  7. Cock at Sunrise (1.26)
  8. Historic 1632 recording of Dodo calls (Courtesy of the descendants ot Midshipman Alex Whamond) (1.26)
  9. Put Out Your Cigarettes and Dance (4.20)
  10. The Dodo on the Roof (5.29)
  11. St. Kilda (5.30)
  12. Toetapper (5.36)

Tracks 1, 2, 9 trad. arr. Adam Summerhayes / Dodo Street;
Tracks 3, 11 trad. arr. Dodo Street;
Tracks 4, 6a, 7, 10, 12 Adam Summerhayes arr. Dodo Street;
Track 5 Cormac Byrne, Piers Adams;
Track 6b Iain MacLachlan arr. Dodo Street;
Track 6c Michael McGoldrick arr. Dodo Street;
Track 6d Brendan McGlinchey arr. Dodo Street;
Track 8 Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger, Piers Adams