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About Me

People have followed the sun from east to west. They approached the western limits of the land, where the wind blew in their faces, from west to east.
But the music persists along the western seaboard. The ends of the earth. Cornwall; a land's end; A short ferry crossing away is the old Bretagne, more music, a different set of drones echoing that west wind, with the gulls' cry of the bagpipes. Finisterre. Between Brittany and the north coast of Spain are the flat, marshy lands of Aquitaine; then, the Basque lands and the coastal principality of Asturias with its fierce traditions and its own bagpipes. Finally, for now, the north-west province of Galicia with its language and its crisp white wines, its bagpipes and tambourines, its pilgrims and its seafood. Fisterra. The end of the known world. The field of stars at the end of the Milky Way. This music is not archaic. It has not died. You hear it all the time. In village halls and pubs, in the street and in the squares. It's played on the radio and it's played all night when friends gather on high days and holidays. It is a music for today. And a music for tomorrow. It is a music built on drones, the drones of the bagpipes, the drone of the hurdy-gurdy, the zanfona, the drones of the wind through Chillida's sculpture in GijÃ³n.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/23/2007
Band Website: ia2iago.co.uk
Band Members:Caroline Rush - oboe, bodhran, pandereta + drones

Keith Allen - electric mandola, hurdy-gurdy, acoustic bass + drum loops

Philip Rush - electric violin, electric guitars, laÃºd + voice

Christine Judge - electric violin + voice

Direct email; [email protected]
Influences: Well, inspired by;
The Blue Aeroplanes, Cliff Stapleton, Hevia,
Llan de Cubel, Fripp & Eno, Moving Hearts
Eileen Ivers, Sonerien Du, Massive Attack
Alan Stivell, Shirley Collins, Hawkwind
Patric Bouffard, Martin Hayes, GryphonMonasteries & mountains
The Boleyn Ground, Tempranillo...
Sounds Like: Listen to the music,
make up your own mind,
then make it your own...
then tell us...

[email protected]

Record Label: www.kesson.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hours

Over the centuries, the exact nature of the hours of prayer has changed and evolved. Most, but not all, of the imagery of the poems is derived from a two-hundred mile walk along the Camino de Santiago...
Posted by ia2iago on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:25:00 PST

"pretty interesting"

Nice of Spiral Earth to say so in their latest online 'news section'. So, here's the full story... " ia2iago are a trio* playing music from the western edge of Europe, they describe themselves a...
Posted by ia2iago on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:31:00 PST

CD reviewed...

The Fatea website said this about our CD...(see http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/releases.html) "Music From The Ends Of The Earth" is a concept album from Ia2iago, a recording outfit that's bas...
Posted by ia2iago on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:27:00 PST

Two new members join for Faerie Fest...

Great excitement after a couple of very satisfying (and QUITE LOUD) performances over Whit weekend in Cornwall - now we are 5! We're honoured to be joined by Chris Judge (violin & poetess) + Sarah...
Posted by ia2iago on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:34:00 PST

Zanfona

Nothing is older than sunlightunless it is these wallswhich the sunlight even nowhas brought back to life,pinking them, gilding and glossing them. In this hall, where the crisp silenceis perfectly in ...
Posted by ia2iago on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

Saint Ia

St. Ia came across the Irish Sea on a cabbage leaf, and the wind and tide carried her gaily to King Tewdrig's shore, but when Customs asked her what she had to declare, she only held up the cabbage le...
Posted by ia2iago on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

A Statement...

The history of Europe is shaped in part by the tension between the sun and the wind. People have followed the sun from east to west. They approached the western limits of the land, where the wind blew...
Posted by ia2iago on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:06:00 PST