Release by afro celt sound system

Question 1

What does musical cultures does release bring together

Answer 1

Irish folk music, west african griot dance, and western popular dance msuic

Question 2

Features of irish folk music

Answer 2

Uilleann pipes, hurdy gurdy, celtic harps, bodhran drums. Quick and swung rythms and minor or modal tonality

Question 3

What does the lead singer S’inead O’connor attempt

Answer 3

keening a part of irish folk music, a form of spiritual healing

Question 4

Features of west african girot music

Answer 4

using talking drums, djembe drums, and spoken words

Question 5

Features of western popular dance music

Answer 5

programmed and layered looping of ideas. Lots of repetition

Question 6

What does N’faly a band member in afro celt sound system do

Answer 6

to encorporate the girot story telling while singing in Malinkae a lanuage spoken in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau.

Question 7

What does iarla do

Answer 7

sing verses in gaelic

Question 8

What are the 3 main ostinatos of a style of western popular dance music

Answer 8

a west african djembe drum

irish bohdran drum

and pop music bass guitar

Question 9

3 reasons why release was written

Answer 9

to spiritually heal the band after a death of a core member

promote multiculturalism in music ia its fusion

and expand repetoire

Question 10

Describe the introduction

Answer 10

Starts with no pulse meaning no metre, a sense of it only begins when the shakers join.

1) A synth drone C pedal note and persists throughout the piece

2) Introduces the piece in the C aeolian mode

3) A talking drum solo joins almost immideitly after the c pedla note

4) then a bodhran ostinato

Question 11

Describe the verse

Answer 11

When the first line of vocals is heard by Sinead Oconner