The Long And The Short Of It

2019 [MOZCD03]

MOZAIK recorded this 3rd album outside Budapest during the month of September 2015. This time we had a beautiful traditional singer Chrysoula Kechagioglou as a guest and she brought the warm wind and colour of her native Greece into the band for this album. Andy and Bruce also take lead vocals and the instrumental tracks composed by Dónal and Nikola (with the magnificent voice of Ágnes Herczku) are all on this album.

It has taken more than four years for this album to come to fruition but here it is at last and that’s about the long and the short of it!

Produced by Nikola Parov & Mozaik
Andy Irvine: vocals, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica
Dónal Lunny: bouzouki, zouk (baritone bouzouki), guitar, bodhrán bass
Bruce Molsky: vocals, fiddle, 5-string banjo
Rens van der Zalm: fiddle, mandolin, guitar, low whistles, uilleann pipes
Nikola Parov: gadulka, kaval, gaida, whistle, violin, gardon, percussion
Ágnes Herczku: vocal on track 7
Chrysoula Kechagioglou: vocals on track 3, 4, 9 & 12

Track list:

1. Houdini
2. The Black Hills Waltz / The Red Steer
3. My Little Carpenter
4. Like A Soft Breeze
5. The Coast Of Peru
6. As Good As It Gets / The Blue Trouser Suit
7. Gyimes
8. Rainbow ‘Mid The Willow
9. The Song Of The Nightingale
10. Old Virginia
11. The Long And The Short Of It / De Doi
12. Neratzoula