Sen Mac Erlaine & Caoimhn Raghallaigh Old Segotia - LP

From the opening notes arriving as if in mid-air to its final, cheerful burblings, Sean Mac Erlaine and Caoimhn Raghallaighs Old Segotia is an album about friendship: both musical and human, the product of two distinctive musicians visiting each others worlds with a sense of veneration, and a sense of joyful wonder.

Here, Mac Erlaine (This is How We Fly, Quiet Music Ensemble) and Raghallaigh (The Gloaming, This is How We Fly) meet on common ground developed over 20 years of playing together, with Mac Erlaines musical language rooted in jazz and sonic experimentation, and Raghallaigh emerging from an Irish traditional music that he has shaped and reshaped in a deeply personal way.

In this place, Mac Erlaine and Raghallaighs music is profoundly integrated and emotionally textured: at times bursting with explosive energy, at times almost sighing into life, but always searching. Here are the touching unison duets of Cantandor, the lyrica