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This piece, which gives the title to the album, is a new composition. It is for me an epic musical story, a story with archaic reminiscences in modern times.
Samara is the name of a town in Russia with which I had some strange connections (without ever having been there). It is a story that I experienced that was dreamlike, and somehow in my subconscious rather than in reality, but I am not going to describe that story now.
Like in other times in the past, during my musical path, notes and sounds found me, (rather than the other way around!) and they were talking to me, they were telling me stories, explaining things to me.
I never understood why this modern Post Communist Russian town would have created in me so many visions and ancestral memories, but I felt like naming the tune after it anyway.
I discovered later on, only after finishing this piece, that this town was the depository of a rich ancient layered story, one of the neolithic Samara cultures of the 5th millennium BC, in a region considered to be the original homeland of the proto-indo European language.

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from Samara (2020), released March 5, 2020
Antoni O’Breskey - piano, trumpet
Mairtin O’Connor - accordion
Davide Viterbo - cello
Paddy Cummins - banjo

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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.

THE IRISH ECHO, BOSTON
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