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Amazon.com Lúnasas contribution to Saint Patricks Day 2006 (and all celebrations thereafter!) is Sé (pronounced "shay" -- Irish for "six", this being their album of that number.) Produced by double-bassist Trevor Hutchinson, the bands trademark instrumentals are as tight, weightless and clean as ever, with a sophisticated perpendicular swing that sometimes knocks more typically straight up-and-down reels and jigs sideways. But despite the festal merriment of the dance pieces, the real standouts are the slow airs, in which poignant, meandering melodies unfold in a leisurely manner, gradually revealing themselves in full splendor. "Absent Friends", composed by flute, whistle, and bodhrán player Kevin Crawford and paired with Diarmaid Moynihans equally lovely "Ivory Lady" is one such, "Two Of A Kind/Portobello" and especially, "Glentrasna/ Miss Admiral Gordon's Strathpey" are two more. "Midnight In Avilés" consists of a tune from Galicia, an ancient Celtic outpost in Northern Spain, plus two from Brittany in Western-most France, one of the original six Celtic nations along with Ireland, Scotland, Isle Of Mann, Wales and Cornwall. --Christina Roden Product Description Traditional Irish instrumental music performed on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes, guitar and bass guitar. Originally released in 2006. Review "...determined to drag Irish folk music kicking and screaming into the 21st century." -- The Washington Post "Not since the debut of Solas has an Irish traditional band been as lavishly praised as has Lúnasa." -- The Boston Herald "One of the hottest, most electrifying bands in Irish music today." -- The Irish Echo "The biggest buzz in Irish music is emanating from Lúnasa." -- The Chicago Tribune