2-cb1106e2e21969f3.js","9888","static/chunks/9888-d48720c0d3cecfaf.js","1623","static/chunks/1623-8f9c42c74ef44b22.js","9678","static/chunks/9678-bc3175fdc66b489e.js","8275","static/chunks/8275-bc0cd43a5d16c2eb.js","8556","static/chunks/8556-0661fc57cf5e861e.js","1801","static/chunks/1801-ff2957ded3b42991.js","2177","static/chunks/2177-75a725a1c0a3636f.js","2450","static/chunks/2450-2af1615d1ec02554.js","3690","static/chunks/3690-d6ce99b634a3c6d6.js","6849","static/chunks/6849-a5aa65d17e203de5.js","298","static/chunks/298-222bf2d33590277a.js","7820","static/chunks/7820-25836c09109f5f87.js","686","static/chunks/686-da86c4d4102875ea.js","2755","static/chunks/app/%5Bdomain%5D/%5Blang%5D/(main)/products/%5BproductIdTitle%5D/page-314adcde2f47373d.js"],"default"] 35:T583,

Product description

Clannad - An Díolaim - CD

.co.uk

An Diolaim may come as a bit of a surprise to recent fans of Clannad. Famed these days for their soft-focus Celtic pop and hoisting Enya's new age ambience on the world, back in the day they were a bunch of longhaired hippies who made quite cutting-edge music. At a time when contemporaries such as Planxty were tearing into the tradition, the Donegal based family band were offering a more measured approach. Not that it was without its own thrilling moment, as this compilation of their early material demonstrates. Clannad were always masters of the group vocal (shown to greatest effect on "Dulaman") but were also fantastically subtle instrumentalists. The Northern influence of the harp is seen throughout, the tunes less hectic than the normal jigs and reels but there are also other inspirations creeping in--medieval, a touch of jazz and the hint of the new age sound that was to follow. "Harry's Game" would be