i am honestly confused: is “trad” only an irish thing? or might it cover other stuff derived from british iles musics? or (one could hope) might this be an expansive enough concept to cover other musics?
i must admit. i am a jewish bastard from california, with no blood connection to the british isles (save for my wife, a Cronin of County Cork)
but as i was studying the fiddle in all its shapes, it was the irish (and, i must admit the scottish) that appealed the most
i’ll be honest: it’s always a story that catches me. pattern-music in itself rarely quite cuts it without context; that applies to every “master” of what i was raised to call “american minimalism” (don’t hate me, it’s what they called it)
anyway here’s a song i love, and if it sends you on a Silly Wizard rabbithole then more’s the merrier
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