Great banjo playing on great tunes, neat as you please.

Absolutely classic box playing on a classic box; muscular, smooth-cobbled music to make you get up and batter.

Fancy Ulster fiddling with electric energy and a zest for polishing up trad standards to a fresh shine.

My True Love He Dwells on the Mountain - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Don't let the modest appearance of this collection fool you. Unique field recordings of no less than Willie Clancy, Vincent Griffin, "The Gabe" O'Sullivan, and other notables who previously were only known to most of us as silent ghosts mentioned in liner notes and tune names.

As promised, I will now take a short break to add some more albums for your benefit, before diving back in to the data-science work and adding the tune-ID feature in irishtune.info.

The St. Patrick's Day deadline I set last fall has arrived! Status: new, simpler plan for releasing a tune-ID feature. But I spent most of the time on research-grade data science work, because it turns out this is a music-analysis breakthrough of broader interest.

Update to my post bsky.app/profile/iris... - Currently that project has been delayed by a family of new projects that need to happen first. One of them is gradually going public now: using my AI model to help me find the past 30 years of my own human errors in irishtune.info so I can fix them.

alanngnet/irish-tunes-csi · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

For the data nerds among you, the machine-learning test datasets I published last year are now easier to dig into at huggingface.co/datasets/ala... - and are still also hosted at www.irishtune.info/public/MLdat...

Who wants to collaborate on an academic publication about my tune-identification AI?

The vision: You give it an audio clip and it will point you to the matching tune in irishtune.info. Maybe done by late winter? If I don't get it done by St. Patrick's Day I'll go back to adding more albums until the smoke clears from my brain.

Good news: I'm going to tackle the monster project of figuring out a way to put my my amazing audio-based tune identifier in your hands as a new irishtune.info feature. See my posts about this in June bsky.app/profile/iris...

Announcement time! Bad news: I will now take a long break from adding new albums, having finally finished all the pre-2020 albums in the to-do pile.

The irishtune.info Data Explorer got a data refresh (last refreshed in March). Explore the complex picture of tune rhythm and mode popularity among irishtune.info users.

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By the Light of the Moon by Róisín Ward Morrow - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

An album full of violinistic, thoughtful, tastefully accompanied slow airs.

They Didn't Come Home until Morning by Francis and Áine O'Connor - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Mighty stuff out of Sliabh Luachra. Flute and fiddle to keep you at it all night, with a bunch of new tunes by Francis keeping things fresh.

Suas Leat by Swallow's Tail Céií Band - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Top-class music for experienced set dancers: tight, clean, melodeon-energized, fast but smooth, and above all it entices the feet to batter.

The Parish Platform by Rattle the Boards - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

An album to put you in mind of an evening of craic at a rural rambling house, but with Benny of Danú fame on the box. Doff of the cap to making Off to California listenable again!

Music from Sliabh Luachra by Denis Murphy - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

At long last this sadly out-of-print treasure of Sliabh Luachra music is represented in irishtune.info.

This addition also marks the completion of all the pre-2020 albums waiting in the irishtune.info to-do queue.

The Days that Are Gone by Charlie Piggott - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Sweet music harvested from a wide range of sources, all softened and deepened by Charlie's careful handling.

Humours of Derrynacoosan by Mossie Martin - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Fluent North Connaught fiddling with a lovely lift to it.

One Day. November Woods by Ryan Molloy, Fergal Scahill - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

A remarkable album not only for Fergal's mastery of a huge musical range from sublime to jocular to frenetic but also for Ryan's pianistic artistry.

Nuadán by Dén Díobháil - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

These Waterford and Cork lads make seamlessly beautiful music that clearly benefited from spending their formative years together.

Barking Mad by Four Men and a Dog - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Finally closing this notable 1991 gap. Not only the recording debuts of future big names Cathal Hayden and Donal Murphy but also just plain happy music.

The Dimming of the Day by Uaine - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

A surprisingly successful blend of music from opposite corners of Ireland, plus Scotland, with unsurprisingly excellent duet work from Bríd and Tony.

Music at the Gate. Uilleann Pipes. Ceol ag an nGeata by Tim Hill - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Excellent piping from the Bay Area, although Tim came originally from the Philly community, including time with Ed Reavy.

Bridging the Gap by Kanako Machida and Brian McGrath - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Lovely touch on the box from an unexpected corner of the world, and it's nice to hear Brian get out from behind the piano for a change, even while he's there, too!

The Turning of the Geese by Gay McKeon - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Masterful piping across an interesting range of the piping repertoire, from older to newer and and from core to rare.

In Thr3 Minds by Elaine Hogan - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Happy to add more of Elaine's harp, her first solo album, released just weeks after the high-end Avalla album she featured on.

The Glory Reel by Will Woodson, Caitlin Finley, and Chris Stevens - as analyzed at irishtune.info Complete and corrected contents and information about this album, including tune identifications of mistitled and unidentified tunes.

Tight tunes from a New York-centered trio filtering the tradition through their taste for Donegal repertoire, the founding New York trad fiddlers, and piping repertoire.