Gerry Diver: The Speech Project – review

(One Fine Day)The idea is certainly original: take a series of interviews with well-known Irish musicians, and then mix short excerpts of speech with instrumental work that follows the rhythms of a spoken phrase. The interviewees include Christy Moore, Shane MacGowan, Damien Dempsey and traditional singer Margaret Barry (heard talking to folklorist Alan Lomax in 1953), and the music is provided by Gerry Diver, a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has worked with MacGowan and Van Morrison. Th...

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