Rusted Rail
The Driftwood Manor : The Same Figure (leaving) (IR,2011)***
Driftwood Manor is an Irish acoustic altfolk band accompanying the songs of Eddie Keenan mostly in a low energy minor key slowing down fashion, very intuitive and mood dumping, accompanied by strummed guitar, bouzouki, accordion, bowed double bass, trumpet, fiddle and a few more texturing instruments. The songs aren’t quiet clear to me and the mood, like a marsh, is sucking you deeper and deeper into it. Some members of United Bible Studies were involved as well adding more mood to it completing the musical background to a Irish-based wild natural landscape.
Eddie Keenan on vocals acoustic guitar, bouzouki, cuatro ; David Colohan on vocals, accordion, banjo ; Neil Fitzgibbon on fiddle ; Bean Dolan on double bass ; Anne Marie Hynes on vocals ; Gavin Prior on electric guitar, oscillations, percussions, Tibetan bowl, effects ; Brian Quinn on trumpet ; Vicky Langan on vocals and violin (8,9) ; Audrey Ryan on second vocals, accordion (6).
