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Drunken Spider

from Samara (2020) by Antoni O'Breskey

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This is not a recent composition of mine, it traces back to the 80’s when I was with David ‘Hopi’ Hopkins in some unknown tavern in Poland while touring Eastern Europe.
While improvising this tune on the piano he saw a white spider on the wall and undoubtedly projecting our state of mind, he thought he was drunk, and so we named the tune after him.
The track was recorded with a vast ensemble of musicians in 1992 for the work “Orekan” but never made it into the album because we had recorded too much music!
I always regretted leaving it behind, so it was an immense pleasure when Máirtín O’Connor asked me to record it again with his daughters Ciara and Sinead and my daughter Consuelo last year. Of course I had to take the phone and call Hopi, to get him back on the track with bodhrán and percussions!

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from Samara (2020), released March 5, 2020
Mairtin O’Connor - accordion
Ciara O’Connor - fiddle
Sinead O’Connor - fiddle
Consuelo Nerea Breschi - fiddle, harmonium
Davide Viterbo - cello, accordion
David Hopi Hopkins - bodhrán
Leonora Lyne - flute
Giorgio Vendola - double bass

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Antoni O' Breskey Dublin, Ireland

“O’Breskey’s musical crossovers have an ethical imperative. He seeks to mesh the majority with the minority, the present with the past, and the vocal with the silenced, so as to “deflate the ethnocentrism of classical Western music.” For this musician, musical cultures are not defined by borders, but by historical roots that reach deeply across all areas of the globe.

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