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Bothy Culture
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Price: $8.90
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0014431038129
Label: Rykodisc
Manufacturer: Rykodisc
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rykodisc
Release Date: 1998-01-13
Studio: Rykodisc
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Customer reviews of Bothy Culture
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Customer Rating:  
Summary: Bennett's Story is Better than the Album
Comment: With its driving electro rhythms and wailing traditional Irish folk instruments (played by Martyn Bennett), track 5, "Ud the Doudek," is a pretty fun listen. "Hallaig" is also worth hearing, for Irish poet Sorley MacLean's recitation of his own marvelous poem set to Bennett's effective backing music. All in all, however, with due respect to Martyn Bennett, his diverse musical background and tragic demise are more compelling than the music on this album.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: Here are the words which spiral on the inside of the Bothy Culture CD case. (underneath the disc itself) They are a very apt description of this album.
Quote: "There is a dichotomy in this music; a gentle old tradition of the land and the sea against the neon technology of our growing Urban culture. The tunes are of an old style: Scottish, Irish, Swedish even Islamic. The beats and mixes are of a new style: Garage, Breakbeat, Trippy, Hip, Drum & Bass. I hope when you listen or dance to these tunes you get a sense of your own roots. If you push back the pressure of the Urban development for a second you might remember where you came from. Go climb a mountain and see."
You can't help but tap your feet/fingers in time to the songs on Bothy Culture, even if you are riding in the car so can't get up to dance.
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Summary: An Antti Keisala Comment: Not Words, Not Music Or Rhyme I Want
Comment: I hold Bennett in rather high regard, and that's not even mostly because of the most celebrated aspect of his music, the energetic mix of fusion-like dance-beats with the original Irish tradition. It's his "Glen Lyon" that defines the man for me, and the profound tune "Blackbird" from his last album "Grit". "Glen Lyon" isn't blending the old and new in terms of what he's mostly been doing as much as it is a minimalist-post-modernist approach to a genre of music that transcends what we think of as natural, almost naturalist. I call him a post-modernist as much as I call Iarla Ó Lionáird a post-modernist, two musicians I consider brothers.
Yet of course the Bennett most people have fallen in love with is a post-modernist in the greater sense, a sonic mystic who builds all sorts of tapestries on mere reference to cultural identity. We go through a myriad of influence here, almost as many as with the Afro Celt Sound System - yet so much it's wondrous to think that all this came from a single mind. "Grit" is the grown-up brother: mellower, deeper, more conscious. This is a celebratory album, with no presence of apparent death. "Grit" is, in this sense, the culmination. Yet "Lyon", which he recorded with his mother on the vocals, is even more closer to the heart. The best of Bennett would be a mishmash of this and "Grit", with bits of "Harldland", an album that's perhaps too cold for my taste, and a dose of "Lyon". But even if I hold that small and silent album in higher regard, you will have to listen to this to understand what I and others see in "Lyon." The power, the glory, the profundity.
God bless his soul.
With best regards,
AK
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Summary: Bothy Culture Review: The Good Die Young
Comment: This album combined world music, techo pop, and celtic music to create an energetic melange. I bought the album particularly because of the piece called, "Hallaig", which features the voice of the esteemed gaelic poet Sorely McClean. This piece is haunting, beautiful, and inspirational. Overall, the album is original and interesting; it's too bad it's out of print.
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Summary: Great cd for those who love funky irish music! great for ids
Comment: this is a great cd, perfect for lovers of irish music, or someone looking for something new to listen to. This is perfect for my fellow irish dancers, not really to practice to, but just great irish/celtic music!!!!!! One of my favorite cds!!!!!
I'm so sad i never got to see Martyn perform live, he was and still is such a wonderful musician. He will live on through his great and inspiring music.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Armed with bags of talent, the ability to play plenty of instruments, and a drum machine, Martyn Bennett really makes an impression with Bothy Culture, his second album, but first to receive major distribution. Equally informed by the tradition and the dance culture that ruled Britain, this is a groundbreaking work. Even when this albums attempts global references ("Tongues of Kali") there is a undeniable Scottish basis. "Joik" joins the dots between Scandinavia and Caledonia, while "Yer Man From Athlone" lightly points out that the Scots and Irish had the same root stock. Humorous, danceable, and daring, this is perhaps the Scots album of the 1990s, a Trainspotting for the new folk movement. --Chris Nickson
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