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Table of Contents:

• 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).

Author/Creator:

Trueman, Dan, 1968- , composer, singer, instrumentalist

Contributors:

Ó Lionáird, Iarla , composer, translator, singer

Ó Lionáird, Seán , singer

Ó Lionáird, Peadar , singer

Ó Lionáird, Páidí , singer

McDonagh, Michaela , singer

Gill, Laura (Singer) , singer

Ní Mhiolláin, Treasa , singer

Muldoon, Paul , author, translator

Eighth Blackbird (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Gallicantus (Musical group) , singer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng

Languages:

English
Irish

Language Notes:

Macaronic text; sung in English and Irish.

Main Work:

Olagón: a cantata in doublespeak [by Trueman, D.]

Included Works:

Olagón [by Trueman, D.]

Related Works:

Based on: Táin bó Cúailnge

Subjects:

Cantatas, Secular

Electronic music

Genres:

Cantatas

Performers:

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 ; Seán Ó Lionáird, vocals ; Peadar Ó Lionáird, vocals ; Páidí Ó Lionáird, vocals ; Michaela McDonagh, vocals ; Laura Gill, vocals ; Treasa Ní Mniolláin, vocals ; Gallicantus (Mark Chambers, vocals ; David Allsopp, vocals ; Christopher Watson, vocals ; Nigel Short, vocals ; Gabriel Crouch, vocals ; William Gaunt, vocals).

Production Credits:

Producer, Jesse Lewis ; engineers, Bill Maylone (Chicago sessions), Andrés Villalta (Princeton University sessions), Dan Trueman (Galway sessions).

Performance Medium:

Solo singer; flute doubling piccolo, alto flute, and singer; clarinet doubling bass clarinet and singer; violin doubling viola and singer; cello doubling singer; Hardanger fiddle doubling bowed lute [Hardanger d'amore], electronics, and singer; piano doubling electronic piano [bitKlavier] and singer; percussion doubling singer

General Notes:

Cantata, based on the legendary Irish tale Taìin boì Cuìailnge.
Title from disc label.
Irish translations in Pillow talk by Iarla Ó Lionáird; English translations in Marbhan and Guaire by Paul Muldoon.
(Disc 1, track 9) recorded 2015 October 9 Princeton University, NJ.
(Disc 2, tracks 7-9) recorded 2016 January 31 Inis Mór Árann, County Galway, Ireland.
Recorded 2017 January 5-8 IV Lab Studios, Chicago, IL.
Recorded 2017 January 14-16 Princeton University, NJ.
(Disc 1, track 5) recorded 2017 February 13 Princeton University, NJ.
Recorded 2017 April 5 SHIRK Studios, Chicago, IL.
"World premiere recording"--Container.
Program and biographical notes in English (13 pages), and text (19 pages) inserted in container.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs (1:31:09) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 157,119- 157,120

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 735131917421
Publisher Number, Cedille: CDR 90000 174

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019622145

OCLC Numbers:

1011631713