Kila - Lemonade And Buns (1999)

The fourth album by the band Kila brings traditional Irish music kicking and screaming into the new millennium with a baroque, theatrical flair. Kila's sound tastefully and energetically combines such traditional instruments as uilleann pipes, tin whistle, fiddle, and bodhrán with Middle Eastern strings, African percussion, and horns to fashion a distinctively Irish approach to world-fusion. Each of the seven musicians--including former Dead Can Dancers Rónán Ó Snodaigh and Lance Hogan--is a talented multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. The jazzy acoustic guitar and flute on "The Compledgegationist" might remind listeners of previous generations of Celtic folk-rock ensembles (early Jethro Tull, Pentangle), while "Rachel's Reel" sounds a bit like David Grisman's "jazzgrass" hybrid. But the Gaelic rap on "Tine Lasta" and the Afro-Celt tribal drumming on "An Tiománaí" are something else again. It's unlikely that there'll be a more fresh and original release to come out of Ireland in 2000. --Rick Mitchell

Tracklist:
1 01. Kila - The Compledgegationist (05:34)
1 02. Kila - Tine Lasta (04:54)
1 03. Kila - Turlough's (04:27)
1 04. Kila - Andy's Bar (07:35)
1 05. Kila - An Tiománai (03:52)
1 06. Kila - Where Did You Hide That Train Joe? (05:03)
1 07. Kila - The Listerine Waltz (06:01)
1 08. Kila - Rachel's Reel (03:53)
1 09. Kila - Epicy (05:16)
1 10. Kila - Lemonade And Buns (05:51)
1 11. Kila - Cé Tú Féin (04:12)