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Bringing it all back home (to
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Irish USA music,
Philip King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_King_(musician) ; http://www.southwindblows.ie/ ; http://hummingbirdproductions.com/
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1206937/a/bringing+it+all+back+home,+vol.+1
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bringing-It-All-Back-Home/dp/B00000C2FG
http://www.hotpress.com/
1998 At the end of the
1980s, Philip King was best known as a founder member of
Scullion and writer of the music to the
Frank O'Connor translation of the Irish lyric '
I Am Stretched On Your
Grave'. However, since setting up
Hummingbird Productions with his partners
Nuala O'Connor and Kieran Corrigan in
1987, he has established himself as one of the country's leading makers of films about
Irish music and culture, including acclaimed series such as
Bringing It All Back Home, A
River Of
Sound, and
Sult. 22 Jul 1998
"THE
MUSIC and artistic expression of this country is one of its great resources," Philip King proclaims from behind the desk in his office in Hummingbird Productions'
Ringsend HQ. "We don't have any oil, we don't have any coal, but our resource is our imagination, and that imagination has been harnessed by great writers, musicians, film-makers and others, and it reflects the life of the country. I think it would be wonderful from a cultural
point of view if we told our own stories for ourselves and also if we produced them at a standard that is as good as anybody else, anywhere in the world, and then sold these programmes abroad."
Hummingbird has been doing just that for the last ten years. Formed in 1987, this independent company has made a string of well-respected and ambitious documentaries investigating the origins and nature of Irish music and culture, and the impact it has had abroad. From the labyrinthine Bringing It All Back Home and A River Of Sound, to the Sult series featuring
Donal Lunny, to profiles of
Christy Moore and
Liam O' Flynn, to films about
Daniel Lanois and
Elvis Costello, Philip King has acquired an impressive reputation as a film maker.
The foregoing is just one of the many compelling encounters that go to make up Bringing It All Back Home, an ambitious new television documentary series that traces the influence which Irish music has had on forms as diverse as country, rock and even as we've seen, the avant-garde, and then brings these descendant genres together with their forebears for some fascinating re-unions.
The man who originated and nurtured this project is Philip King.
Together with
Nuala O Connor, a former
RTE researcher, he formed a production company called Hummingbird, and has spent the last four years financing, creating and selling the programme.
I've wanted to make this programme for a long time, he explains, and to see it finally complete really is the fulfilment of a dream for me. From an early age, a fascination with both rock music and traditional music has been a very important element in my whole make-up.
It's part and parcel of the way I grew up and it's informed the work
I ve done with Scullion and with my own song-writing. And so for me, the series is a sort of affirmation of things I ve believed all my life.
First the facts and figures: Bringing It All Back Home is an audacious #1 million series in five hourly parts which was made by Hummingbird Productions for
BBC television in association with RTE. It attempts to trace the extraordinary and far-flung journeys which
Irish traditional music has undertaken over the past couple of centuries, to go to some of the places that it reached and to tell the story of how it inevitably wound its way back home again.
Besides the TV documentaries, there is an accompanying book, triple
album, double CD, cassette soundtrack and, for all I know, a T-shirt and bumper sticker too.
It may take only a short paragraph to outline the project s manifesto but, in reality, it took almost four years of dogged determination, back-breaking work and exhaustive research to bring the whole thing to fruition. The series itself visits
Chicago,
Nashville, New York,
Appalachia,
Manchester,
London, parts of
Australia and
Canada and virtually every corner of Ireland but the series makers travelled even further afield in what amounted to their massive archaeological dig of the intercontinental layers of sedimentary Irish cultural history. http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/KING-OF-THE-INDEPENDENTS/520481
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