Afro Celt Sound System
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Biography
Producer/guitarist/visionary/dance DJ Simon Emmerson broke through many cultural and musical barriers when he founded a group to explore the common ground between African and Celtic music. Collaborating on an album with Senegalese star Baaba Maal in 1991, Emmerson was struck by the similarity between one of Maal's tunes and a traditional Irish air and resolved to explore the parallels more closely. After some experiments at Peter Gabriel's Realworld studios in Wiltshire, the Afro Celt Sound System resulted, with Irish 'sean nos' singer Iarla O Lionáird, flautist James McNally, dhol drummer Johnny Kalsi and kora player N'Faly Kouyate among those recruited in a line-up of eight members from six different countries. Their first album Volume 1: Sound Magic was released to great acclaim in 1996 and they became a major touring attraction. However, the death of keyboard player Jo Bruce from an asthma attack delayed second album Release, but Sinead O'Connor joined them in the studio for a tribute song that put the album back on track and they continued to blaze an exciting trail through uncharted territory. More albums Further In Time (2001), Seed (2003) and Anatomic (2005) followed after which they took a break, but reunited in 2010 with live dates and compilation album Capture.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- The Communicator
- Radio Ronza
- Beware Soul Brother
- Kalsi Breakbeat
- Child of Wonder
- Cascade
- Glitchy Fiddles
- Lockdown Reel
- Magical Love
- Honey Bee
- Calling in the Horses
- Brid Bhan
- The Mantra
- The Hawk Owl's Lament
- Where Two Rivers Meet
- Bâdji kan waly
- La Paix
- Mama Ararira (Medley): Mama Ararira, Pt. 1/Mama Ararira We!, Pt. 2
- Desert Billy (tune 'The Balcony')
- The Road to Exile
- A Higher Love (tune 'Monkswell Road' )
- The Soul of a Sister
- Mansani Cissé/Tàladh
- The Magnificent Seven (ACSS meets TDF)
