Altan Returns With New Album, US Tour

Tuesday January 31, 2012

From Irish Emigrant

Altan Returns With New Album, US Tour

Legendary Irish folk act Altan return to the limelight with a new album in February and a tour of the US, France and Norway.

Altan’s tenth studio album, Gleann Nimhe – The Poison Glen, will be a return to the outfit’s roots and will feature a more organic sound, with less reliance on guest appearances.

“We went back to the roots of the six members of the band, with only Harry Bradley and Jim Higgins as guests on this one,” vocalist and founding member Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh told The Journal of Music.

“I also wanted to have the voice more to the fore in terms of the sound, less produced so that we could bring the music into the listener’s room a little more.”

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