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Tog E Go Bog E

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Not sure if the guy who called this album "bad date music" even listened to the same recording as me. This album is incredible! Every song has freshness and vitality, and I rank it among my favorite (along with Lunasa's Otherworld) Celtic recordings. Ronan O'Snodaigh's gaelic singing is wonderfully funky, not "forced" as someone previously mentioned. Outstanding tracks include "Gwerzy" (with it's whirlwind of sounds), "Jasmine", and "Double Knuckle Shuffle". The vocal tracks Bi Ann and Leanfaidh Me' are also a lot of fun. This is one group you will definitely be hearing from in the coming years! I can't wait to see them live!

Kila's music draws from so many musical styles, it would take days to track them all down. Their sound and instrumentation is Irish but with African percussion joining the bodhran and references to eastern European folk music and Andean flute music kind of popping up everywhere. The lead singer's vocals are stunning and distinctive with a definite nod towards Bob Marley. Kila's instrumentals are a little more "spacious" than other Irish folk bands, sometimes straying into New Age territory, but this is exciting, acoustic music that had me dancing in my living room.

While in Ireland, a bodhran player recommended KILA to me as an exciting and unique Irish band and he especially praised "Tog E Go Bog E". Like all Irish music it is full of motion and rhythm, but much more complex and compelling. These are accomplished musicians who weave and build their songs into a sound that can physically be felt. To see them live, like I did in Dublin, is an experience I do not ever think I'll match again.

i listen to it all the time...the first time i heard kila was on a collection...they haven't disappointed me with Tog e Go Bog e..

I first saw Kila in Dublin and purchased their CD "Mind the Gap"- which I highly recommend, but is hard to find. At the end of the evening, the audience wouldn't let them leave, so they sang us a lullaby- one of my favorite memories of Ireland. Their new CD defintely lives up the the first, a wonderful mix of old and new, Irish and other. A definate must have!

The highlight of Womadelaide for me was KiLA who far outshone all other artists at Australia's foremost World Music Festival.Their music brought the audience alive with its Irish jigs, Haunting melodies, and irrisitable dancing rhythms. It was impossible not to buy this CD and take them home with me.

This is one of the most innovative things to hit Celtic music since Mike Oldfield. The label says "Acid Céili [celtic?] Tribal Groove," and that's exactly what you get. Some of it is hard to get into (the tribal stuff) and the acid part is fairly jarring, but without them, it would be just another Celtic disc. Check out Rusty Nails and the title track.

This is a really great band to see live if you ever get theopportunity. This is one of those discs that you can listen to overand over again; it is by far the most frequently played in our collection. For some inspirational yet simple lyrics take time to translate the Gaelic songs. You might like to check out an artist called Susan McKeown too. END

Multi-facetted, frenzied, graceful, bohemian, contemporary Irish tunes and poetic lyrics that are energetic to the end and written and performed by this Irish musical pantheon that have obviously made a pact with the fairies. Fair play to ye lads! Magical stuff from a group that is sure to acquire a cult following. Buy it. Buy 'em all and watch out for their live performances. Blasta go deo. Tóg go bog é agus sin sin.

They call this group the future of Irish music, and that's not bad news. Energetic and multi-layered, it moves out of the Irish category and into world beat. There are two songs I always skip: one sounds like a rusty gate and the other is whiny, grating and sappy. But thanks to CD technology, that's an easier task than it would be on cassette tapes or LPs (remember them?). World beat and Afro-pop fans will probably appreciate this more than hardline traditional Celtic "Thistle and Shamrock" music fans.