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Live from the Powerhouse

Live from the Powerhouse is an album rehearsed in six days, starting on 1 March 2002 in the seaside town of Rye, Victoria in Australia, by multicultural group Mozaik featuring Andy Irvine, Dónal Lunny, Bruce Molsky, Nikola Parov and Rens van der Zalm.

Recording
The album opens with "My Heart's Tonight in Ireland", the band's re-working of the song that Irvine recorded solo on his album Rain on the Roof in 1996; the song then segues into "Robinson County/The Trip to Durrow", two tunes in time where Molsky and van der Zalm on fiddles combine American old-timey style and Irish traditional music. It segues into "Roumen Sirakov's Daichevo", a Bulgarian dance tune in time. The band then launch into their arrangement of "Smeseno Horo" ("broken dance"), which Irvine first recorded with Planxty on After The Break and then again with Davy Spillane and Bill Whelan on the album East Wind. It is in mixed Bulgarian rhythms, beginning in time ( + ) and , then continuing in two different rhythms. The album closes with "The Last Dance", a Greek tune "that the bride dances at her wedding, bidding farewell to her girlhood". Parov leads the band on clarinet, playing it in the Epirus style. ==Track listing==
Track listing
• "My Heart's Tonight in Ireland" (Andy Irvine) / "Robinson County"/"The trip to Durrow" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 6:17 • "Suleman's Kopanitsa" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 4:45 • "The Rocky Road to Dublin" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) / "Indian Ate the Woodchuck" (Ed Haley / John Hartford Music) – 4:05 • "Romanian Horă" / "Black Jack Grove" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 5:20 • "Sandansko Oro" / "Mechkin Kamen" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 5:46 • "Pony Boy" (Mark Simos / Devachan Music BMI) / "Never Tire of the Road" (Andy Irvine) – 7:21 • "A Blacksmith Courted Me" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) / "Blacksmithereens" (Andy Irvine) – 4:51 • "Field Holler Medley" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 5:58 • "Băneasă's Green Glade" (A. Irvine) / "Roumen Sirakov's Daichevo" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 7:28 • "Smeseno Horo" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 3:13 • "The Last Dance" (Trad. Arr. Irvine / Lunny / Molsky / Parov / van der Zalm) – 6:43 ==Personnel==
Personnel
Andy Irvine - vocals, bouzouki, mandolin, mandola, harmonica. • Dónal Lunny - backing vocals, bouzouki, guitar, bodhrán. • Bruce Molsky - vocals, fiddle, 5-string banjo. • Nikola Parov - gadulka, gaida, kaval, tin whistle, clarinet, guitar, kalimba • Rens van der Zalm - backing vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar. ==References==
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