Hi all,
Family health problems have prevented any serious work toward volume 3 of “Wooden Flute Obsession” until now. WFO3 is dedicated to the memory of my brother, Terence Krell (1949-2004).
While as always I have a few flute players already in mind for this volume, there is still plenty of room for the on-line ITM and flute communities to make suggestions. Now is a further opportunity to let me know. There seems to be an incredible depth of players in Ireland and elsewhere, young and old, traditional or maybe a little not. For this time out, who would you like to hear contribute a track, known or unknown, already recording or first time out?
Kevin Krell
International Traditional Music Society, Inc.
a 501c3 non-profit, educational public benefit corporation
Los Angeles, California kevin@worldtrad.org
mobile (310) 480-1944
Well, no solo from Sarah Allen, just her duet appearance with Brian Finnegan on WFO2. I think Seamus Tansey may have too many other projects going right now, but I was glad to have something from him on WFO1.
Hmmm, if we’re going to go there, i wonder if we could have some good charanga players. Or is that too OT?
I love Maraca, though he is somewhat non-standard because he plays a metal flute. I think the official site is www.maraca.cult.cu but seems to be down now. I don’t know if there is anything in English. Google has www.maraca.cult.cu/eng/ which looks like it might be the English version.
I’m sure someone here could list some good wooden flute charanguistas.
Lots of good Brazilian flute, especially Altamiro Carrilho, but that’s not a wooden flute tradition. He’s a wonderful guy, though, and a soulful player.
If the WFO albums are going to drift away from ITM, why not throw in some of these bansuri masters from India that several forum members keep frothing about. You may as well throw in some native American flute players while you’re at it. And maybe some Japanese trad flute, as well. You might lose your ITM following, but it would still be a WFO album.
well, eddy zervigón shouldn’t be too hard to track down, he’s in nyc i think. most charangueros play flauta sistema, when fajardo died he was close to the last of the french 5-key players. thank G_d i got to see him before he passed on, what a great player.
anyway, gimme a visa and a stipend to go back to la Habana and i betcha i could shake the palmas and find a bunch of 'em
anyway, that’s NOT what i was suggesting… there IS some precedent for Breton players on WFO (Barou on #1 and Veillon on #2). i just got JL Thomas “Kej” and i think it is fantastic tho not trad, i’d really like to hear him play some more traditional material. hell, put him in front of a mike and have him play a set of reels, i’d bet he’d play the shite out of it. Brittany has some of the best timber flutists out there, so my thought is why not include them.
of course, based on the responses here, i guess this suggestion is thinking a bit too much outside the box.
Please keep it On Topic, there are still loads of great ITM fluters out there. Someone else can put an album together with “Best of Bansuri” or whatever…
And have you been able to get in touch with Kevin Ryan yet Mr. Krell? Any luck with that phone number?
Sorry, rh. I wasn’t taking the piss. There are several tracks on the existing two WFO albums that are not very IrTrad, already. I was thinking more along the lines of blowing the box up altogether. A wooden flute is a wooden flute. There are many styles of them for playing many styles of music. A wooden flute collection could go international and include many types of wooden flute and their associated folk music.
aah so, i see now… i’m sorry, djm, for presuming that you were being argumentative when you were not… you’re thinking more like that “planet squeezebox” compilation from a few years back…
Conor Byrne
Aran Olwell
Ronan Browne
Finlay MacDonald
Iain MacDonald (Glenuig)
Isaac Alderson
Kieran O’Hare
Harry Bradley is conspicously absent.
Paddy Carty
John McKenna
Michael Flatley (his first album, not the new one)
I second the nominations of Jean-Luc Thomas and Shannon Heaton.
As for bansuri, that and shakuhachi can go on a BFO (Bamboo Flute Obession) CD or maybe it could be called GFO (Grass Flute Obsession).
(rim shot, exit)
