Alan Kelly: (Tara Records)

Get Arty McGlynn's phantasia radiophonic production here: easy-jazz orchestra, spine-chill Hammond Organ, skiffle drums, 1970s traffic-jazz brass; lounge-lizard lobby piano, salsa etc. Meanwhile, up close on the tightrope, this Roscommon man's fluent, lyrical piano accordion rapid-dances through melodies - sure, giving them jazz, but always stalwart to the interior, head-hopping flog of a tune: his own beautiful slip-jig and lovely, twitching air; Liz Carroll or Scots tunes; or trad reels with brother-fluter John Kelly and Jimmy Higgin's bodhran - all spiky, propulsive three-minuters with wild surprises. Reels The Colliers and Paddy Taylor's squirt like fast fish through bubbly water, in the style of Kelly's Da - a real credit to that man.

Mic Moroney

Eoin O Riabhaigh: Tiomnacht/Handed On (Gael Linn)

This cautionary, well-travelled Cork piper honours his late father, Micheal, with his own rangy, tearaway style and a mad tendency to leave Alex Finn, Frankie Gavin, John Faulkner and Colm Murphy puffing along after him: the raging canter on Colonel Frazier, good smartish Cork polkas, the fierce tick-tock on Eileen Curran's Reel, the flapping gizzards of The Fox Chase, an up-skipped Gold Ring, etc. The honking schmaltz of Carson's Waltz twists a rictus in your neck, while a Scots war-ensemble of snare drums and seven uileann pipers flattens the ears against your skull. But hark the spirit in the pell-mell, inside-out bluegrass of the "American reel" - wild, down-and-dirty piping.

Mic Moroney

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