On the Best of the Chieftains album, what is the tune name in Sea Image? I can’t tell if it is a variation of different tunes or just one tune.
Thank you!
~Kerry
If no one else can answer this, I’ll have a listen to the track tonight. The “irishtune.info” website says the track comprises 2 tunes, the jig “The Rolling Wave”, and the air “Anach Cuain”.
The track “Sea Image” originally came from the album Chieftains 8. The sleeve notes there say the two tunes are the jig The Rolling Wave and the air Anach Cuan. What more do you want? Did you think irishtune.info was out to cheat you or misinform you in some way?
djm
I really don’t see the need for your last 2 sentences, “djm”, but since you asked, I’ll try to answer.
“What more do you want ?”. - I don’t want anything. I was merely trying to help someone who asked a question. I’m not in the position to listen to the track in question at the moment, but volunteered to do so later if no-one else could help. In the meantime, I thought it might be useful to tell “SilverStrand” what irishtune.info had to say.
Did I think irishtune.info was out to “cheat” me ? - No. Don’t see how they could,or would want to.
Did I think irishtune.info was out to “misinform” me ? - No, at least not deliberately.
Do I think irishtune.info is infallible ? In common with ALL sources on the internet - no. And that also goes for sleeve-notes on recordings.
Regards, “kenny”
Thanks for the info. That was all I needed to know. 
~Kerry
What I find interesting about that track is that two versions of Rolling Wave are played. On the sleeve notes to The Pipering of Willie Clancy Vol. 1, Séamus Ennis observes that the tune seems to be in a mix of 6/8 time and 9/8 time.
Although when written in 6/8 it fits into a 32-bar structure, there’s definitely something odd about the phrasing.
If memory serves me well, Sean Keane plays a version that has been doctored to fit into strict 6/8 time, and then the group resumes after the air with the standard Clancy setting. Or something like that.
There was a question about this tune a while back and for fun I tried to come up with a transcription that followed the phrasing. And Peter had an interesting comment about it.
There is also a version of this on their compilation CD ‘Film Cuts’ which happens to be the first Irish music CD I ever owned way back when. If memory serves, in the set they arrainge the tune first as a slip jig, then a standard jig, and lastly as a reel. Very cool stuff - without ever loosing the tune.
It’s in O’Neill’s as The Humours of Trim, in 6/8 time. As written there, it works in that meter, technically. As for the phrasing, it could be better written out in 12/8 to seem more intelligible, perhaps.