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The Irish times
d. 9. Mar. 2018
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Siobhan Long
d. 9. Mar. 2018
"It's fitting that Altan's first album in three years and their 16th since Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy formed the band in the early 1980s should feature new tunes from the next generation - from Ní Mhaonaigh's daughter Nia (fiddle) and guitarist Mark Kelly's son Sam (concertina). These, alongside a pair of reels composed by Altan's most recent arrival, Martin Tourish on piano accordion, signal the band's appetite for evolution of the musical and familial kind. Their duelling fiddle sound is no longer a feature since Ciarán Tourish's departure, but The Gap of Dreams is a beautifully realised collection of new and traditional tunes rooted in their home place of Donegal ... Unhurried and richly stitched, with arrangements that let the music shimmer, Altan are back - with gusto".
