Afro Celt Sound System


The traditional music of Western Africa and Ireland is fused into a seamless blend by Afro Celt Sound System. The band's exciting performances have become a popular attraction at the WOMAD festival in Reading, England, since 1995, while their 1996 debut album, Volume 1, remains one of the most successful examples of cultural exchange. Afro Celt Sound System bring together top-ranked musicians, including traditional Irish vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, uillean pipers Davy Spillane (Moving Hearts) and Ronan Browne, whistle player James McNally (the Pogues), Kenyan nyatiti player Ayub Ogada, and Baaba Maal band members Kauwding Cissakho and Massamba Diop. Jo Bruce, the son of British bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce(Cream), rounds out the group on keyboards and electronic programming. Several tracks on the band's debut album, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Simon Emmerson, featured members of Shoonglenifty on mandolin, bongos, banjo, guitar, and fiddle. Released initially on the EMD/Real World label, Volume 1 was issued in the U.S. by Caroline Records. Afro Celt Sound System made their U.S. concert debut in July 1997. Their second album, Volume 2: Release, was finally issued in 1999 by Real World. Volume 3: Further in Time, which featured guest vocals on "Life Begins Again" by Robert Plant, was released in spring 2001. Seed followed in 2003, with the accompanying Pod DVD arriving the following year. In 2005 the group found a new home on the Narada label with Volume 5: Anatomic. 

Biography by Craig Harris  -  Source: allmusic

Watch and listen the vídeos: Estíval Live (full video),
Mix (40 videos), Magic & Mayhem, Mojave, Dark
Moon - High Tide, When I Still Needed You, Release,
Release (feat. Sinead O'Connor), Magnifi Projects (48
videos), When you're Falling, Saor/Free/News from
Nowhere, Riding the Waves, LushFest 2011, Life
Begin Again, Popular Afro Celt Videos (200 videos),
Seed, Colossus, Éireann, Deep Channel, The Silken
Whip, North, Womad 2010, Dark Moon, Mother, My
Secret Bliss, Persistence of Memory, Nevermore,
We cannot Go, Sure as Not, Go on Through, Medley 
Shrewsbury Festival, Mix (50 videos), Mix (50 videos)