03 - The Seventeenth
of July - 2´33
(Music: Alan Griffin)
(Produced
and arranged by Alan Griffin & Joxan Goikoetxea)
Recording
engineer: Joxan Goikoetxea
Recorded at Aztarna Studio (Hernani, Gipuzkoa) throughout 2017.
Mixing
and Digital Mastering:
Mikel F.Krutzaga – Musikart Studio (Amezketa - Gipuzkoa).
Alan
Griffin: flute
Joxan Goikoetxea: accordion and
keyboards
Arkaitz Miner:
fiddle
Juanjo
Otxandorena:
bouzuki
Fiachra
Mac Gabhann:
mandolin
Iosune
Marin:
acoustic guitar
iachra
This waltz was composed for the wedding of Alan´s brother Brian to Mary Quinn nearly twenty years ago. There's an alboka setting of it on Halfway to Hell: Albokarako 333 doinu, Nº 189.
I
managed to insinuate this waltz into the repertoire of several groups
I've played with over the past two decades.
However, I resisted trying to get it onto the Basque CD's I've been
involved in, to protect their Basqueness from its Celtic contamination.
But I've given up these notions in my old age, so here's a waltz that
sounds Canadian to me. And it made a cheap wedding present too.
Joxan and Juanjo have had to play it with me hundreds of times over
the years. And I couldn't imagine it without a fiddle, so we co-opted
Arkaitz, who's also played it with us time out of number.
About twenty years ago we recorded the first version of this fine waltz
by Alan in the late-lamented studio that I had in Lastaola, Hernani.
It was an original wedding present for his brother Brian.
Lastaola saw the birth of several projects, including the Aztarna record-label, and it was where the first Alboka rehearsals took place in 1994, with Josean Martín Zarko, Txomin Artola, Alan and your humble servant.
We ought to write a book, there are so many interesting experiences and adventures to tell.
