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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    This heavyweight vinyl record comes with a download card (with 7 extra tracks), a limited pressing (of 250 copies) and a print of a poem "I Sacsaibh na Séad" by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin translated into Spanish.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Gatefold cd with inlay card (lyrics book) and download card (with two extra tracks) included.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 300 
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  • DVD

    The song "Marine Mambí" from "Hy Brasil" was the inspiration for this award winning feature length documentary which chronicles the life of Dynamite Johnny O' Brien.
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  • Full Digital Discography

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    releases

    Get all 13 Trouble or Fortune Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Waveleaplights, Bleak is the Pampa (single), The Pampa's My Home (single), Fire and Foam, "Macalla Chill Áirne" film soundtrack, Ordinary Surface (single), Hy Brasil (single), The Wine Dark Sea (single), and 5 more. , and , .

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about

While living in Valencia, Spain, I bought an album entitled "La Tierra Grita" in an old record store. The artist is Juan Antonia Espinosa-a Spaniard who spent many years living in Peru. Heres a translation of the back of the record, "these songs were born in Peruvian lands while listening attentively to the roar of the South American continent. There are three protagonists-the people (the oppressed who advance towards their liberation), the guitar (who while fighting learned to sing) and that same earth who is converted into a prophet of new country."

Being quite taken with the words of one of the tracks ¿Un Hombre Cansado? (A Tired Man?), I decided to record it.

lyrics

¿Un Hombre Cansado?

Me dicen que sólo soy un hombre triste y cansado,
yo con esta guitarra, respondo a todos cantando.

Yo canto canciones tristes porque triste está mi pueblo,
en sus ojos la esperanza va poco a poco muriendo.

Ayer murió el compañero, y el pueblo llora de pena,
que sólo quedan los campos, que solo queda la senda.

Me marcho por los caminos, a reunirme con mi gente,
A combatir junto a ellos, espero así la muerte.

Juan Antonio Espinosa (from "La Tierra Grita")

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from Hy Brasil, Songs of the Irish in Latin America, released December 10, 2019
I'm playing all the various sounds on this one, guitars (electric and acoustic), double bass and keyboard (the synth is called "black moth dreams").

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Trouble or Fortune Records Killarney, Ireland

Trouble or Fortune is where myself, Charlie O' Brien's, music and film projects are found.

Besides my own work and collaborations, Japanese alt. folk artist, Mari Mochizuki, is the first formal addition to label.

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