THE LIVELONG DAY

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The Lynch brothers, Daragh on guitar and Ian on Irish bagpipes (uilleann pipes), have a background as struggling street musicians, closer to the punk scene than the Irish sphere proper. But "traditional music is more punk than punk," says Ian, "it conveys the same things as punk bands, except you understand the lyrics." The Brothers then enlisted the reinforcements of Cormac Mac Diarmada on violin and Radie Peat on accordion and concertina, and that's how Lankum, formerly named Lynched, came to be. After the success across the Channel of their album Between The Earth And The Sky, released on the Rough Trade label, where the band won several awards at the prestigious BBC Folk Awards, the quartet from Dublin is back with The Livelong Day. Recorded and produced by John ‘Spud’ Murphy at Meadow and Guerrilla Sounds studios, The Livelong Day allowed the band to brilliantly explore the boundaries of the genre by blending their alternative folk with psychedelia, thus preserving their status as one of the most original Irish traditional music groups of the last twenty years.