Lankum: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- This performance was recorded on March 6, 2020. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (home) concerts! They’re recorded by the artists in their home. It’s the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space.
May 18, 2020 | Bob Boilen -- Lankum's journey from Ireland to the Tiny Desk was a wild and bumpy adventure. First, visa problems forced them to cancel their late February date. A week later, much of the world is more worried about COVID-19, though daily patterns here hadn't changed. They arrived in New York, hopped in their van to Washington, D.C., only to have that break down. Finally, after all that, some good news: While in their new van heading to the Tiny Desk, the Dublin quartet received news that its brilliant album The Livelong Day had won Ireland's Choice Music Prize Album of the Year!
All of this was a build-up to a Tiny Desk concert I'll never forget. I, too, am a massive fan of the drones from the uilleann pipes, harmonium, concertina and the stunning voice of Radie Peat. The Livelong Day to my ears has as much in common with Irish tradition as it does to electronic music, though everything they do is acoustic. But the power and heft of what brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat convey through their reeds, strings, and vocals are deeply stirring emotionally and have stuck with me all these months since this concert's recording.
A week later I saw Lankum in concert. It was the last one I attended in a real venue and the world was rapidly changing. Their journey home, I trust, was frightening. The idea of getting on a plane was so very different from just a few weeks before. I know it was tough, but I'm ever so grateful for this life experience and grateful to be able to share it here.
SET LIST
"The Wild Rover"
"The Young People"
"Bear Creek"
MUSICIANS
Radie Peat: vocals, harmonium, baritone Irish concertina; Ian Lynch: vocals, uilleann pipes, baritone English concertina; Daragh Lynch: vocals, guitar; Cormac MacDiarmada: vocals, fiddle, viola
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Patrick Boyd; Videographers: Maia Stern, Bronson Arcuri, Melany Rochester, Jack Corbett; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Shanti Hands; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Bob Boilen/NPR
Lankum are now getting the recognition they deserve. Such a fabulous group.
Lankum is my favourite band right now. They sound amazing. Hope we'll get to see bands like Talisk, Elephant Sessions or Fleuves on Tiny Desk!
readin' minds r we that!
Check out Dallahan, Young Waters (so similar to Lankum wi the harmonies), john langan band. Let me know if you want a few more.
@@JD-uq5sh more please!
@@thepottingshed1601 Jellymans Daughter, The Mary Wallopers, Daori Farrel, Four Winds,
@@JD-uq5shthanks :D
So much soul
I had tickets for their concert in Cork Opera for Paddy’s Day. It was postponed due to Covid ... I can’t wait to see them some day.
I'm in love with Radie Peat
Just brilliant - great start to my morning. Thank you
LYNCHED !!!!
Awesome band!
Bellisimo
Super !!!!
Lankum ohja dat ligt daar bij de Pekela’s
Épico!!! Lembra muito a trilha sonora de The Witcher 3!
more Lankum now
MINUTE 12 what was up with the tunning you lovely guys from the irish green hills!
🎤🎵❤
VIKING
Huge
yup
Could you invite M. Ward?
Putting ads in this video is a hate crime.
get an ad blocker they are free to download.
@@justahumanbeing.709 they are spyware / malware.
@@marleypumpkin4917 i use ad block plus, never had a problem with it.
Then start paying like me...
Make a careful note of what they`re advertising . Never buy it . Tell everybody else never to buy it. It does more good than an adblocker and makes you feel better
Lad's wearing a Kneecap t shirt you really love to see it. Ireland are on the map lads.
Shut up fool.
@@marleypumpkin4917 tiocfaidh ar lá
‘Kneecap’ are British lads that think they are Irish. Nobody in Ireland cares about Lankum or kneecap except communist Dublin hipsters.
@@HEATSEEKER00 actually boss not from dublin. from westmeath and living in galway, know a hape of lads that love kneecap haha
@@HEATSEEKER00 Found a Seppo being at it here!
Delighted to finally see this up on UA-cam. By far one of the most exciting Irish groups of any genre in a long time. Fair play to Boilen for being such a great advocate of contemporary Irish folk/trad. The Mary Wallopers next wha?
Exciting? You're having a laugh. Soporific you mean?
@@the5th2000 stay mad
LOVE THE MARY WALLOPERS ...cod liver ......
Big fan of the Mary wallopers!
I could literally hear you say that last sentence
My heart sings listening to this I'm a Derry man and I hear generations beneath this sound.
Lankum manages to do Irish folk music that sounds both faithful to tradition and yet hauntingly contemporary.
I did the sound for them a couple of years ago in a small venue in Leeds. They were a delight to work with and the evening was one of the best.
The working mens club in Burley?
You mean the Brudenell?
@@markojack15
Radie brings it straight from the core of the planet boy
That is exactly it man
No lie
Yup Lankum and up the Kneecap shirt haha
I accidentally clicked on this video with the intent of exiting right away, but they had me intrigued with this gorgeous old folk sound. What a band. Need to check em out.
This is so beautiful it’s actually making me cry. I’ve never heard of them before but now I’m desperate to see them live.
They are amazing live.
Check out their work on Spotify, Laura!
'The Young People' is a total tear jerker. It's beautiful, but intensely raw and painful - and I say that as someone who hasn't been directly affected by the suicide of a close loved one. How it would feel for someone in that position I can only imagine.
absolutely fantastic . love this band. was great to see and hear you live last night supporting massive attack in bristol. what a night. keep it up Lankum. hope to see and hear you play live again very soon . love and peace from Bristol Blue (Prayers for Rain)
Advert in the feckin song! That was a real quick slap in the brain return to the real world
Freshest take on Irish traditional music since Planxty, to my ears. Coincidentally, I grew up listening to music on a stereo purchased at Peats, Radie’s family business. I missed the February gig in Boston because of your visa problems, this helps!
Tbh they are good but Planxty are untouchable
The scratch also
The Gloaming also did some incredible stuff.
I think you folk who love Lankum in this vein would also like Anna and Elizabeth from across the pond.
Go on you good thjng... 14.30 minutes onwards ....so sweet ... remember my seandaddy listening to his transistor.......go raibh milé mhaith agaibh....
Gan ceoil, gan saol.
Tá sé iontach tráchtanna a fheiceáil i nGaeilge! Tá Lankum thar cionn.
ta sin cinnte
These guys have been compared to The Pogues. I would say the closest comparison would be The Velvet Underground to trad.
If Swans were a folk band.
Who else gets goosebumps when they all sing the hook on The Rover? Sounds so epic live!
Oh yeah. Heavenly harmonies, restrained yet emotionally powerful over a driving droning background
Amen. So beautiful it gives me chills.
Brings me to tears every time, even thinking about it, especially; "When the Young People Dance, they will not dance forever, I dont know whether its hooking into Deep melancholia or processing Irish ancestral suffering and hardship, the love of a dance , drink, land, so much in there. Trying to Exorcise this and bring about a new pattern , while aknowleding the lineage.
Intensely moving
this music is just euphoric, it makes me feel like im 1700's traveling folk artist, and Im sitting here at my computer...Thats's art.
1700s Ireland...they would have been killed,jailed or put on a prison ship
@@niallkelly2990 Haha, right enough!
00:00 The Wild Rover
10:14 The Young People
14:50 Bear Creek
After watching Tiny Desk for a year it's amazing to see some more Irish folk behind the desk! Kila next?
luis martinez get over yourself
Definitely a bit of Kila!
THE DREAM
@luis martinez You need to get checked my friend. They say having no taste is a symtom of Covid-19
Junior Brother would be great.
It is written in sand with the softest of feathers, it is not writ in stone like the walls of the chapel, and soon it is gone, like the soft winters at home. Makes me think of the relatives and friends that I've lost over the years, and how many of them were gone before their time. There's little left of their lives now. Just memories of moments in those who outlived them.
Guy on the fiddle, cranking away soft & easy, with the sound of a warm summer evening
Fair play for promoting Kneecap at same time, support for Irish musicians 👊
Yeah, saw that...nice one
Really lads? Wearing a t-shirt is for adolescents. Great music tho.
It's moments like 7:58 that make Lankum so special. Their music is huge and delicate at the same time.
The Livelong day is a trad/folk masterpiece
Saw yous back in January in Vicar Street and it was an amazing gig, never stop making music 💖😁
Gwan lads... morning from Cork City!
Amazing ! In France, we have Corse region with people singing like that !
Celts too ?
@@edgeofwest5741 Like most of Europe (including France) they were most likely Celts at some stage around 2000 years ago - but the type of singing from Corsica that Henri is referring to is very Mediterranean not Celtic (polyphonic singing) and is pretty wonderful if you can track any down (I Muvrini, for ex.). I hear they are pretty well disposed towards the Irish, Corsicans, due to a common struggle for independence going back centuries. For the English in Ireland substitute the Italians and the French in Corsica.
That vocal precision is breathtaking!!!
I'm going to listen to all of their songs now...
Radie's voice hurts my heart it's just so beautiful
I wanna see Lankum play in like a cathedral or huge cave, a huge space with maybe another bass instruement
NPR please move the ads on this, they are quietly loud in their disrespect of the culture and content.
get an ad blocker, you can download them for free.
@@justahumanbeing.709 on mobile and for everyone, that was the message, it always was.
Wow, I’ve never heard of them or even really this type of music. I really enjoyed this! Thank you 🙏🏽
Bear creek gives me goosebumps
You can hear centuries of struggle in their sounds. Real soul real rock n roll.
Me: crying after Young People thinking about friends who I've lost too soon as they quietly get ready for their next track.
UA-cam: "-PLAYING GAMES PEOPLE THINK ARE FAKE: NICE, NOW WEVE GOT THE AK, NOW IF WE JUST GET THE EXTRA SOLDIERS... OH NO..."
0:00 - *The Wild Rover* (9:36 / 9:52)
10:15 - *The Young People* (14:23)
14:50 - *Bear Creek* (19:17)
Ok, going to go play The Witcher 3 again now.
Was thinking the same, this band needs to be the music for Witcher 4.
I'm averse to any type of jingoism - but stellar proud so many Irish acts enhancing the trad tradition in so many brilliant ways. It ia getting even more brilliant - our New Irish are doing beautiful fusions - we are blessed.
Hon kneecap hon lankum
Honestly....where the f... am i... im glad im here
Lovely heratage, Thank you NPR, for spotlight falk art from all around the globe, it is enreaching mind and soul. 🌺🌺🌺
my soul understands it. thank you
Hypnotic audio tonics! Thank You NPR Music Tiny Desk for hosting Lankum! After reading the description, was taken because i am entranced by ancient sounds and the journey to America through sounds of Appalachia
It's interesting that you consider this an 'ancient' sound; all of those instruments are imports into Ireland, as is the language the songs are being sang in!
@@finnantobin ammm Irish pipes are pretty Irish and the fiddle is as irish are you o chara
@@niallkelly2990 Oh all of those instruments are definitely Irish, I don't dispute that at all. But that doesn't get away from the fact that they're imports. Pipes didn't arrive until the 16th century, and the modern Irish fiddle is derived from Italy and dates to the 17th. Ancient Irish music was likely just low, droning horns and bodhrán style drums.
@@finnantobin 17th century is quite a long time ago compared to the sounds that most of us listen on a daily basis
Jaysis lads isnt this something wha? Lovely stuff altogether.
Lankum are the best Irish band right now regardless of genre.
John Mcentee they are the sacred cow of Irish far left spastics you mean ....
@@HEATSEEKER00 you dont like Luke Kelly either? Also a communist.
@@TheLordbanjo Don't reckon he/it's too hot on Christy Brown or Moore neither - or particularly worth engaging with
How can you listen to Bear Creek and not have a grin of pure joy and tap your foot? How can you listen to The Young People and not get chills? How can you listen to The Wild Rover and not long to be a traveling performer of a bygone year?
Just found these I'm embarrassed to say ....absolutely hooked now
Hon the feen repping the kneecap shirt 😂
ceol iontach!
Their music s so haunting and powerful and does so much with relatively basic means. It is so HEAVY without being electric even! I get goosebumps whenever I listen to them. I get that they work in kind of a specific niche but I believe many music lovers from many different genres would be moved by them if given a chance.
BOOYAKASHA!
Heartbreaking when the wails kick in at 12 minutes in. Like the screams of the dying boy in the lyrics. Brought me to tears.
Ah this crushes it in every way--musicianship, innovation, passion.
What to wear for tiny desk, kneecap t-shirt, check, samba shoes, check.
Bear Creek reminds me of a much wanted past that isn't actually there. Brilliant.
Rac agus Roll
They don't need to talk much, they say everything through their music. This band is so real, I am inebriated whenever I listen to them. One of the few bands of the present that I'd be willing to travel to see live.
Superb. Finest band since the Incredible String Band. Very few bands are truly unique but Lankum is one for sure.
This just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Irish folk music.
@@edgeofwest5741 I have been listening to Irish folk music for over 50 years and sure there is a lot more but Lankum have broken off that iceberg and taken the music in a whole new direction.
@@LifeOnLewis not sure about that, they have a style for sure but their not breaking any new ground here in Ireland
@@edgeofwest5741 i think Lankum are phenomenal but perhaps you can enlighten us to some other bands you consider as or more unique while drawing attention to their work, which might help to widen their audience/income?
Radie is a monster! 3 instruments in 30 minutes
Congrats on the new baby Ms Peat
If you cast from your phone to the TV using chromecast device I've found you get hardly any adverts...and thats using the free version of UA-cam
This makes me so proud to be Irish
😉 ,this many most want to be Irish .
🍀🍀🍀🍀
Why? These guys don’t even believe in an Irish identity... they think being ‘proud to be Irish’ is racist.
@@HEATSEEKER00
Since when is Irish a race ??
Its a culture.
I heard someone say that nationalism is collective narcissism. I thought that was funny, and kind of true.
You do realise it's a German song which the English brought back from WW1 and the Black and Tans brought to Ireland and the Dubliners picked it up in a Dublin pub
Deadly!!!
legends! fair play to ye lads, revisiting this nearly a year later xx
This was beautiful. I watched it again as soon as I finished it
Beautiful. Raw the Kneecap shirt is mint ! Keepin her lit.
Hope this comment is not taken as a slag! I sing The Young People with my 5yo daughter as we cycle to school. It is perfect pop! A building verse, an incredible hook, seemingly euphoric but look deeper and…adore all the tunes and recommend everyone to buy the vinyl - as equal a thing of beauty as the tunes
Hat tip to Myles O'Reilly / Arbutus Yarns for making the film "The Psychology of Analogue" that put the blinding brilliance of this music on my radar. Wow.
is that film on UA-cam? Sorry am on phone and don't want to interrupt the listening Please don't miss Radie's rendition of Hares On the Mountain, at the minimum.
@@mothratemporalradio517 it is! It's on Myles' channel, uploaded 6 months ago. Or you can copy the title from my comment above and search; it's the first match.
@@thomasjw76 Cheers!
Thanķs a miiĺion 💎
tá sé seo go hiontach ar fad. Geez, npr, as Alex having just said, time your frickin ads.
Wow... Wild Rover is beautiful, and when it hits around 08:40 on here its just an amazing sound.
Thats lovely lados
Large! what's the craic?!
Amazing! Make my day! These songs makes me feel so well
no entiendo esa gente que pone el dislike
Nearly fell off my chair listening to this.
Bear Creek is one of the best pieces of modern traditional Irish music I've heard
Its actually american in orign XD I agree though, their rendition is amazing!!
@@spaceant2919prove it?
@@SonysDream There is a connection there. Appalachian traditional music is very influenced by the legacy of migration from Ulster. I wouldn't be surprised if they had that in mind writing the tune, the name "Bear Creek" alone kind of evokes it
@@SonysDream you can google it. there's no proof it's irish at all
Been looking forward to this for a long time. Incredible performance as always.
the Kneecap t-shirt, unreal
The Kneecap t-shirt 😆
Wow, great, I'd like to hear these in an open air concert ( one day) ❤️ Love it!
I love this sound and vibe. So gooooood.