The Flow

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The Flow
Chris Leslie - The Flow.jpg
Studio album by
Released1997
Recorded Woodworm Studios, Oxfordshire 1997 by Mark Tucker
Length42:44
Producer Simon Mayor, Tim Healey
Chris Leslie chronology
The Flow
(1997)
The Gift
(1999)
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The Flow is an album by Chris Leslie released in 1997.

Contents

This album is mostly instrumental. Although Chris Leslie is best known for his fiddle playing in Fairport Convention, these cuts sound nothing like Fairport or any of his other prior musical projects. The album demonstrates Leslie's breadth of musicality, influence and inspiration from across the globe.

Tracks 2 and 6 produced by Simon Mayor. Other tracks produced by Tim Healey.

Recorded by Mark Tucker.

Track listing

  1. "Ballydesmond/ Scartaglen" (Traditional)
  2. "Eliz Iza/ Derobee de Guingamp" (Traditional / Traditional)
  3. "Aignish" (Traditional)
  4. "The Witch of the Glen" (Traditional)
  5. "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (Words: Thomas Moore; Tune: Traditional)
  6. "Lime Rock" (Traditional)
  7. "The Old Blackbird" (Traditional)
  8. "The Flow" (Chris Leslie)
  9. "Niel Gow's Lament for Abercairney" (Niel Gow)
  10. "Paddy Ryan's Dream/ The Inimitable Reel/ The Macroom Lassies" (Traditional)
  11. "Kishmul's Galley" (Traditional)
  12. "Tune for the Land of Snows" (Chris Leslie)

Personnel

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