The Storm

Album is a very good set of songs to listen to in the background. One of my issues with acoustic Celtics album is after a while it all starts to sound the same. However this one is different in that it held my attention thru out.

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Great album.

Scottish folk rock that will move your heart.

When you listen to an album and as soon as it's finished you just HAVE to listen to again and again and again...it's 5 star material. This music truly touches the heart.

Where can I start to review to my mind the greatest contemporary traditional Irish album of all time,Firstly the Lark is 14 minutes long but dont let this put you off,it is the most innovative piece of music your ever likely to hear in an Irish sense,this particular track is made up of 7 different pieces all incorporated into a continious rampage of Uillean pipes(Davy Spillane)Saxaphone(Keith Donald)Bozouki(Donal Lunny)Bass Guitar(Eoin o Neill)Drums and Percussion (Matt Kelligan&Noel Eccles).To say these musicians are the greatest Ireland ever produced is almost an understatement,Titanic track 2 features Keith Donald in particular on fire as he blasts some fine music from his Sax.Track 3 the title track again features similar explosions from each member contributing their own memorable pieces,track4 Tribute to Peadar O Donnell is another 9 minute masterpiece,finally the hauntingly beauitiful May Morning Dew would make any strong man cry,the emotion in Davy Spillanes playing has never been matched by any other piper to my knowledge,all in all this album first recorded back in the late 80s has stood the test of time,and in my opinion is the album which prompted the success of Riverdance,Buy this album cherish it listen without doubt to a collectors item,there likes will not be seen again.

Do not let the paucity of tracks keep you from owning this gem. This is the best from perhaps the best band ever assembled. In my opinion, any music created with Donal Lunny involved in any way is always interesting, richly textured and timeless. Lunny's masterpiece, Tribute to Peadar O'Donnell, is alone worth the price of the CD. A solemn, hauntingly beautiful song, it begins with Davy Spillane on uilleann pipes then transforms into a divine soaring fusion of pipes, bouzouki, keyboard and fabulous percussion from Noel Eccles. You have to hear it for yourself. The Titanic is a medley utilizing Keith Donald on sax, which will delight you for years. The Storm is a Lunny/Spillane medley which takes this type of music to new frontiers. This CD is the jewel of my collection. I have listened to it more than my old Beatle albums and yet I never tire of it. It is so well produced that I still hear little things that I missed before. Listen especially for Lunny on bouzouki. He stays in the background but contributes mightily.

Moving hearts - The Storm takes me back 15 years to when I first heard it on tape sitting having dinner with friends. It was captivating and I re-discovered it recently when I stumbled over a YouTube video of Moving Hearts playing Finore from the album with Christy Moore playing his haunting low whistle. Magic.

Delighted to find a cd of this album which I bought on audio cassette decades ago. A classic!

Really like it but love the Lament on uileann pipes .What a band and what snazzy sax playing by Keith Donald

Pleased with this. Good service too.

I bought this originally on Vinyl when it first came out, it is an excellent and really chilled out album, i am delighted to have it on CD, It blends trad Irish with Rock and is sublime musically, overall i am more than Happy.