Playing for Luck Ranagri

• 1The Strangler03:39
• 2Devil's Need04:15
• 3The Medication Show03:49
• 4Like My Enemy03:25
• 5The Thief05:05
• 6Sometimes Home04:36
• 7Trees03:44
• 8Out There04:23
• 9Waiting for the Rain03:24
• 10Falling Down03:07
• 11Colder03:12
• 12Liberty02:46
• Total Runtime45:25

Info for Playing for Luck

This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Here we have four stubbornly independent artistic individuals, a creative quartet of highly-trained instrumentalists, two women, two men, each with their own moving and impressive backgrounds, four unmistakable voices, four uniquely individual perspectives on root work and euphony - and yet: sometimes true magic lies in just such an unlikely but inspired mixture.

Simple genre-labeling is just impossible here. When Irish folk traditions meet the vibrant melodies of a lively city like London, when classical instrumental training collides with the hard hands-on club experience of the blues musician, when an intellectual understanding of music rubs shoulders with a clearly audible knowledge and feel for the golden decades of pop music, it is precisely this immense richness of related and associated styles, sources and roots that make this rich and soulful bundle of a dozen songs so unique and radiant.

Regardless of whether you have an award-winning harpist, a flute player comfortable in all styles, a busy multi-instrumentalist or a singer-songwriter who travels the world, these different backgrounds and horizons, experiences and peculiarities flow seamlessly into the Ranagri melting pot. The resulting music-mixture is a unique, sometimes singable, sometimes mystical musical fairytale world between intricate folk music, noble and elegant pop, artful and beautiful sounds, sympathetic pub-rock and flowing, eloquent singer-songwriter art.

The inquisitive listener who likes to read between the lines, to delve below the surface and detect the references might feel he/she recognizes a melodious echo of Clannad, a quirky remark in the style of Ray Davies, a soft-voiced wisdom a la Luka Bloom, a cultivated Christopher Cross elegance or the flowery vocal splendor of the Mamas and the Papas, but in the final reckoning it is simply the combined, sublimely powerful and sometimes wonderfully over-the-top creative imagination of these four musical magicians which brings us such mature instrumental craftsmanship, finely-tuned vocal harmonies, tradition and talent, heart and mind, spirit and feeling to a perfect state-of-the-art studio environment.

Donal Rogers, lead vocals, guitars, bass, memotron
Eliza Marshall, flute, bass flute, whistles, bansuri, shakuhachi, harmonium, backing vocals
Eleanor Turner, electric harp, clarsach, piano, backing vocals
Joe Danks, bodhran, tenor guitar, guitar, drums, percussion, backing vocals

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