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Discography

The Haar – The Haar

Record Details

Artist
The Haar
Release
2020
British Accordionist Murray Grainger with The Haar

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Record Tracklist

  1. The King’s Shilling -:-- / 4:51
  2. The Green Fields of Canada -:-- / 4:18
  3. Willie Taylor -:-- / 4:20
  4. Siúil a Rún -:-- / 8:02
  5. My Lagan Love -:-- / 4:38
  6. The Creggan White Hare -:-- / 5:39
  7. Two Sisters -:-- / 5:42
  8. The Emigrant’s Farewell -:-- / 6:56
  9. Craigie Hills -:-- / 6:25

New band The Haar introduces the fresh talent of traditional Irish singer Molly Donnery combined with three of the most exciting instrumentalists on the folk and traditional music circuit: Cormac Byrne (Instrumentalist of the Year 2019, FATEA Magazine Music Awards), Adam Summerhayes (‘a Paganini of the traditional violin’ fROOTS) and Murray Grainger (‘Gorgeous stuff’ BBC Radio 3). Like the eponymous sea-mist, which rolls in both east and west from the Irish and North Seas, the music in their debut record varies in denseness and viscosity. It is at once tangible and fleeting, headily thick one moment and thinly dispersed the next. Three masterful instrumentalists provide an improvised space from which Molly’s pure and unadulterated vocals can emerge. The Haar is a collection of traditional Irish songs tackling love, poverty and oppression – common subjects that link the peoples of these islands. This is music that is not afraid to transcend borders – whilst recognisably born of the traditional musics that all members have grown up with and absorbed, it is unapologetic in pushing at the edges in order to create the band’s own unique and compelling sound.

THE HAAR – THE ALBUM

Molly Donnery – vocals

Cormac Byrne – bodhrán and percussion

Murray Grainger – accordion

Adam Summerhayes – fiddle

Two musicians stand in a crowded pub on the Irish island of Inis Oírr; a flame-haired girl silences the room with a quiet unaccompanied song – Molly’s voice was worth the silence.

An impulsive decision follows, and at sunset the next day, Molly, Adam and Cormac meet at a timeless shipwreck on the wild Atlantic shoreline. They sit on a rock and a simple traditional song emerges – just voice, fiddle and bodhrán. No rehearsal, no arrangement – the song performed intuitively … the seed of an idea that grows into The Haar, the lineup completed when Molly and Murray (accordion) meet for the first time in the studio to record Irish traditional songs tackling love, poverty and oppression –subjects that link the peoples of these islands.

In the studio, the music flows from the bands first notes together – reminiscent of the haar, a sea mist that rolls in from the Irish and North Seas: fleeting, intangible, headily thick, suddenly overwhelming and then unexpectedly clearing for a glimpse of precious sunlight. The band make no plans, just letting the music create itself; the tracks on the album are the first and only versions, as unpredictable and ephemeral as the haar itself.

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The Incider Sessions CD

British Accordionist Murray Grainger with The Ciderhouse Rebellion

"twelve of the most rewarding and inspiring tracks I have come across"

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  2. Two Sisters The Haar Buy here 5:42
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  4. La Belle Dans la Tour Hérétique Buy 4:26
  5. A Silken Gold Chain Words of a Fiddler's Daughter Buy 7:13
  6. Siobhan O’Donnell’s No.2 LinnTilla Buy 4:34
  7. Don't Miss What's Right In Front Of You Captain Of The Lost Waves Buy 4:25
  8. Le Pont de Morlaix / 100 Squares / Return to Milltown Murray Grainger & Amy Thatcher Buy 2:41