The City Sleeps, by Kyle Sanna

The City Sleeps

by Kyle Sanna

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1.	The City Sleeps 03:49	buy track
2.	Banish Misfortune 01:29	buy track
3.	Le voyage pour l'Irlande 03:20	buy track
4.	N'fheadar 01:40	buy track
5.	Tuamgraney Castle 04:01	buy track
6.	The Green Fields of Woodford 03:42	buy track
7.	Jug of Punch 04:12	buy track
8.	O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick 03:59	buy track
9.	Dear Irish Boy (for Pat O'Brien) 02:34	buy track
10.	The Boyne Water (bonus track) 03:45	buy track

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Solo guitar interpretations of Irish melodies

When everything suddenly changed in March, 2020 I was in Ireland expecting to start a tour. Instead, we went to record in an old lodge in rural County Westmeath. I returned late that month to a shuttered Brooklyn and, sequestered at home with the lingering feelings and impressions from my time in the muted countryside, began recording some of the Irish tunes I had been playing. I never intended to make a solo guitar record, let alone one of Irish music, but the pandemic had us doing all kinds of new and unexpected things.

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released October 28, 2023

Kyle Sanna, guitar & dobro

recorded April & May, 2020

mastered by Mat Leffler-Schulman

all tunes traditional except
"The City Sleeps" by Kyle Sanna
"Le voyage pour l'Irlande" by Pierre Bensusan
"N'fheadar" by Peadar Ó Riada

©2023 Kyle Sanna

Much gratitude to the musicians that got me started playing traditional Irish music: Cady Finlayson, Caitlin Warbelow, Dan Lowery, Alan Murray, Jason Cade, John Morrow, and Dana Lyn. And to those I continue to learn from through conversations, sessions, and sharing stages— especially Ivan Goff, Cillian Vallely, Owen Marshall, Seamus Egan, and Martin Hayes.
Thanks also to Matt Kanelos, David Reinfeld, Lily Holgate, and my family.

For Tony Sanna.

"The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
The living sleep for their time . . . . the dead sleep for their time,
The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
And such as it is to be of these more or less I am."

- Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" (1855)

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Kyle Sanna Brooklyn, New York

Kyle Sanna's musical practice includes composition, improvisation, the recording studio, coding, and the traditional music of Ireland.

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