Dún an Doras

Dún an Doras is a Celtic folk-rock music group with an unlikely location: the Czech Republic. While Celtic folk-rock clothes are quite abundant in Ireland and Scotland, the Czech Republic is normally hardly the initial place that involves mind when comes up Celtic music. But Dún an Doras is normally, actually, a modern Celtic outfit using a Prague address, and their associates have got ranged from Czech music artists to immigrants from other areas of the globe. Although Celtic-oriented, Dún an Doras isn’t several Celtic purists — Celtic folk-rock isn’t Celtic music in the original sense (also if it’s performed in Scotland, Ireland, or Brittany), as well as the music group has incorporated various kinds of globe music. On the Dún an Doras discharge, one will probably hear the most common Celtic tools (like the fiddle, the flute, and uillean pipes) alongside different instruments that are not typically Celtic — tools which have included Indian tabla drums (which are often connected with raga playing), the cajon (a South American device), the djembe (which originates from Western Africa), as well as the Aboriginal didjeridoo. Dún an Doras contains traditional Celtic tracks in its repertoire, but the actual group will with them isn’t just traditional. Dún an Doras was shaped in Prague in 1997. On the way, the music group has had a lot more than its talk about of lineup adjustments. The band’s early people included, amongst others, Katerina Garcia (business lead vocals), Nilla Axelsson (a lady fiddle player who’s originally from Sweden), Simon Delaney (a guitarist who was raised in Ireland), and Scott Mavroudis (who takes on the uillean pipes and can be a indigenous of Ireland), Tom British (bodhran), and creator René Starhon (who takes on bass aswell as the bouzouki, a string device that is generally noticed in Greek music). By past due 1999, the majority of Dún an Doras’ unique people had remaining the music group, including Axelsson, Delaney, Mavroudis, British, and Starhon. But Garcia and Starhon continued to be, and for some time, each of them performed collectively like a vocals/acoustic guitar duo. But that downsized edition of Dún an Doras was just temporary, and the first 2000s noticed the appearance of Pepa Janicek (banjo), Petr Kosumbersky (a guitarist who utilized to perform with the Celtic music group Shannon), Radvan Markus (flute), Jonathan Tennant (didjeridoo, percussion), Daniel Malczyk (fiddle), and Kristyna Kyndlova (percussion). But Janicek, Tennant, and Kyndlova didn’t stay; Janicek remaining in past due 2001, Kyndlova in past due 2002, and Tennant in 2003. May 2003 noticed the appearance of Jakub Severin (tablas, darbuka, djembe), and in past due 2003, Dún an Doras experienced a six-person lineup that included initial users Garcia and Starhon aswell as newer arrivals Markus, Kosumbersky, Severin, and Malczyk. Dún an Doras’ 1st recording, Bossa Nudski, arrived in 1999; it had been followed by Nice & Sour, that was documented in 2003 and released on Indies Information (a little independent label that’s located in Brno, Czech Republic, and continues to be documenting the post-communist Czech music picture because the early ’90s).