Part I. Pillow talk (8:20) ; Introductions (7:22) ; Marbhan's shadow (3:28) ; Being only a dame (4:59) ; A queen bee (with Gallicantus, Seán Ó Lionáird, Peadar Ó Lionáird, Páidí Ó Lionáird, vocals) (6:30) -- Part II. Stirrings I (3:50) ; For eons and eons (2:08) ; Stirrings II (:57) ; Motet for Medhbh (with Gallicantus, vocals) (5:36) ; Níl aon ton-ton (2:24) ; Stirrings III (1:27) ; You know its a salmagundi (4:07) ; Stirrings IV (1:19) ; Marbhan and Guaire (Nathalie Joachim, vocals) (9:34) -- Part III. Pillow talk reprise (4:12) ; Restless rest (2:09) ; Ululations I (1:27) ; Zeus to my Demeter (1:41) ; Only on Medhbh (3:42) ; Ululations II (1:09) ; Reeling reels (with Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (4:11) ; Ailíll (with Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (3:13) ; The book of lamentations (with Treasa Ní Mhiolláin, Michaela McDonagh, Laura Gill, vocals) (7:34).
Note
Cantata, based on the legendary Irish tale Taìin boì Cuìailnge.
Irish translations in Pillow talk by Iarla Ó Lionáird; English translations in Marbhan and Guaire by Paul Muldoon.
Credits (note)
Producer, Jesse Lewis ; engineers, Bill Maylone (Chicago sessions), Andrés Villalta (Princeton University sessions), Dan Trueman (Galway sessions).
Language (note)
Macaronic text; sung in English and Irish.
Author
Trueman, Dan, 1968- composer, singer, instrumentalist.
Title
Olagón : a cantata in doublespeak / Eighth Blackbird ; music by Dan Trueman, with Iarla Ó Lionáird ; text by Paul Muldoon.
Publisher
Chicago, IL : Cedille, [2017]
Copyright date
℗2017
Playing time
013109
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Eighth Blackbird (Nathalie Joachim, flutes, vocals ; Michael Maccaferri, clarinets, vocals ; Yvonne Lam, violin, viola, vocals ; Nick Photinos, cello, vocals ; Matthew Duval, percussion, vocals ; Lisa Kaplan, piano, bitKlavier, vocals) ; Iarla Ó Lionáird, vocals ; Dan Trueman, fiddle, vocals ; with additional vocalists.
Credits
Producer, Jesse Lewis ; engineers, Bill Maylone (Chicago sessions), Andrés Villalta (Princeton University sessions), Dan Trueman (Galway sessions).