nocrows are:

Steve Wickham : fiddle

Anna Houston : cello & mandolin

Felip Carbonell : guitar

Eddie Lee : double bass

Guest Musicians:

Brian Fleming: bodhrán, bones & percussion

Peter Crann: percussion

Steve Hanks: clarinet & saxophone

Oleg Ponomarev: fiddle

Miquel Barceló: fabiol, tamborino & guitarró

Produced by nocrows

All tracks traditional, arranged by nocrows , except where the composer is named.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Urs Lanz @ doolittlerecording.com

Photos by Colin Gillen/framelight.ie

Front cover by Heidi Wickham

Artwork by Daragh Stewart - Red Eye Design

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TRACK LIST

1. Crowswing (Steve Wickham) - 3.21

2. Claudia (Cathy Jordan) - 2.51

3. Des de Mallorca a l'Alguer (trad.) - 2.29

4. Sa Sibil·la (trad.) - 1.45

5. Hijo de la Luna (Jose Maria Cano) - 3.47

6. The Hot Bulgar (trad.) - 3.21

7. Two Black Russians and a Pernod (Declan Corey/ trad.) - 4.43

8. Mimi's Chorinho (Eddie Lee) - 2.51

9. La Partida (trad.) - 3.39

10. Five 2 Six - El Trencaclosques ( Felip Carbonell ) - 3.24

11. Rags for the Craic (trad. / Anna Houston)- 3.02

12. Chiquilín de Bachín (Astor Piazzolla) - 4.02

13. Magpie (Anna Houston) - 3.25

14. Ai Mu Mare ( Felip Carbonell ) - 5.18

Copyright NoCrows 2008

The last track is the only song in the album. In it, Felip talks to his mother (who died in 1983) about moving from his Mediterranean home to rainy Ireland and about his wishes to go back to his beloved sea in the form of ashes. These are the words in the original Catalan language:

Ai, Mu Mare (lletra i música: Felip Carbonell )

Ai, Mu Mare, ai Mu Mare

Envia'm allà on no hi plou

Que aquí plou massa

Que aquí plou massa

He mudat de casa, he mudat de parla

He deixat els meus amics, els meus tresors, les meves ganes

Però mai no oblidaré

D’allà on són les meves cames

Aquí he escrit romançes i he plantat un arbre

He criat els meus infants, els meus estels, les meves ànsies

Però vull que elles coneguin

D’allà on són les seves branques

Ai, Mu Mare...

Cada vespre en jeure, tanco ses cortines

Despedesc un dia més, perdut al llit, esperant el dia

Que la fi d’aquest viatge

Mos dugui al port de millor vida.

Quan la llum s’em tanqui i se m’acabi el dia

Que me cremin ben cremat i que de les cendres surti vida

Que m’escampin dins les aigües

Mediterrànies, aigües amigues

Ai, Mu Mare...

© Felip Carbonell , IMRO

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