Live from the Powerhouse
live album
Live from the Powerhouse is an album rehearsed in six days, starting on 1 March 2002 in the seaside town of Rye, Victoria in Australia, by multicultural group Mozaik featuring Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Bruce Molsky, Nikola Parov and Rens van der Zalm.
The Australian tour that followed culminated in two gigs recorded at the Brisbane Powerhouse on 30/31 March 2002 and the resulting album was eventually released in 2004, under license to Compass Records.
Recording
The album opens with "My Heart's Tonight in Ireland", the band's re-working of the song that Irvine recorded solo on his album Rain on the Roof in 1996; the song then segues into "Robinson County/The Trip to Durrow", two tunes in 44 time where Molsky and van der Zalm on fiddles combine American old-timey style and Irish traditional music.
"Suleiman's Kopanitsa" is an adaptation of "Dance of Suleiman", recorded by Irvine on the album East Wind, where Davy Spillane's uilleann pipes played the main melodies with sustains, vibrato and occasional grace notes. This time round, though, all the melodic phrases are re-worked for string instruments emphasising the 1116 kopanitsa rhythm (2–2–3–2–2) with exquisitely crafted counter-harmonies from Irvine (mandola), van der Zalm (mandolin) and Lunny (bouzouki), augmented by Parov (gadulka and kaval) and Molsky (fiddle).
"The Rocky Road to Dublin" is the American old-timey version first recorded in the 1920s by Allen Sisson and "Indian Ate the Woodchuck" comes from the American old-timey fiddler Ed Haley.
"Romanian Horă" is a fiddle tune learnt from Jacky Molard and played by van der Zalm, followed by Molsky adding "Black Jack Grove" and its Blueridge mountains feel.
"Sandansko Oro" is a slow Macedonian tune in 2216 time and is followed by "Menchin Kamen" in slow 1816 time (also from the album East Wind), sung here by Irvine.
"Pony Boy" is a fiddle duet played by Molsky and van der Zalm to set the stage for "Never Tire of the Road", Irvine's tribute to his long-standing hero Woody Guthrie. In this rendition, Irvine adds Guthrie's chorus: "All of you fascists bound to lose".
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