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Kevin's Polka

from Samara (2020) by Antoni O'Breskey

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This new composition of ours is my favorite melody from the album. For a while I couldn’t give it a name and kept calling it “New Polka”, but it’s not “legally” a polka, or certainly it is an atypical one with its unusual bars.
In any case, for me, it represented something not only very relaxing but also deeply intense, and I was waiting for a proper title to pop up. One day Tony Byrne rang me and told me about a misfortune that had just occurred in the family after the loss of his dear friend and relative Kevin, and said: “You were looking for a name for that polka; I would like to ask you, could we call it Kevin’s Polka?”
I was honored.

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from Samara (2020), released March 5, 2020
Antoni O’Breskey - piano
Davide Viterbo - cello
Mairtin O’Connor - accordion
Ciara O’Connor - fiddle
Sinead O’Connor - fiddle
Consuelo Nerea Breschi - fiddle
Tony Byrne - guitar
Leonora Lyne - flute
Pino Porsia - mandolin
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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