Rubicon (The Duggans album)
Rubicon | |
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Studio album by The Duggans and Friends | |
Released | 2005 |
Genre |
Folk Irish Traditional Jazz World Celtic |
Label | MDM (MDMCD005) |
Producer | Ian Vance Melrose |
Rubicon is the début studio album by The Duggan brothers (of Clannad). It was released in 2005.[1]
From the press release:
On this, their first solo album, they have gathered together friends made over the years for a remarkable collaboration of talents. They have, perhaps, travelled full circle.[2]
In an official interview on Clannad's official website, Padraig Duggan explains the song Lisa/Liza which appeared on Clannad's debut album as well as on Rubicon. The song is used internationally in schools and on Summer Gaeltacht courses in Belfast, Donegal and further afield:
In the early 1970’s, Clannad won the Letterkenny Folk festival with that song. I actually wrote it up on the roof of Leo’s Tavern! I was up there for some reason with my guitar. It is an upbeat popsong, I suppose I was influenced by bands such as The Beatles. It was a unique song at the time a popsong in Gaeilge! It proved popular in the local schools the young people seemed to adopt it.
Track listing
- "Báidín Fheilimidh"
- "Memories"
- "The Bird"
- "Fanann na Cnoic"
- "Away"
- "Tá Mo Chleamhnas a Dhéanamh"
- "Nóinín / The Mucky Duck"
- "The Rubicon"
- "Hughie"
- "Óró Se Do Bheatha Abhaile!"
- "Lúrabóg"
- "The Silent Spring"
- "An Saighdiúir Tréigthe"
- "Liza"
- "The Blue Stack Mountains"
Guest artists
- Éamonn deBarra
- Kerstin Blodig
- Máire Breatnach
- Brídín Brennan
- Deirdre Brennan
- Moya Brennan
- Ciaran Byrne
- Paul Byrne
- Orlagh Fallon
- Urs Fuchs
- Finbar Furey
- Peter Jack
- David James
- Ingolf Kurkowski
- Thomas Loefke
- Patsy Dan Rodgers (King of Tory Island)
- Ian Melrose
- Sean Moore
- Aidan O'Brien
- Ian Parker
- Andrew Roberts
Other credits
Recorded at:
- Cauldron Studios, Dublin
- A-Trane Studios, Berlin
Mixed By:
- Ciaran Byrne
- Ian (Vance) Melrose
Engineered by:
- Jorg Surrey
Graphic Design by:
- Carol Wilson
Sleeve Notes by:
- Sinéad Duggan