The next instalment of "Bog Jazz" from Eoin 'Stan' O’Sullivan & Shane Murphy.

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Eoin ‘Stan’ (The Ceili Allstars, Stanley Super 800) and Shane (The Guilteens, The Shaker Hymn) have teamed up recently as a genre-bending duo exploring the fiddle music of Sliabh Luachra with electric guitar and drums. 

Irish musicians have never been shy about showing their traditional roots while tapping into contemporary styles and instrumentation but this is far from the innovations of Moving Hearts or the Celtic-Glam of Horslips. Stan and Shane's music is like something that could have predated all that fusion..  As if the Public Dance Halls Act of 1935 had never passed and Irish traditional music took an organic path into the electric age, evolving in tandem with the cultural shifts of the 20th century, rather than in opposition to them. 

Together, they channel a sound that’s raw, rooted, and defiantly off-road—traditional Sliabh Luachra fiddle music on dirty guitar and big drums. On hearing Stan & Shane immediate comparisons with can be made to the Desert Blues of the likes of Tinariwen or Mdou Moktar. This is something the lads are inspired by and gladly lean into with Stan commenting "if Ali Farka Touré played accordion we might say how he sounded like Joe Cooley? I think the resemblance shows the kinship of all folk music and those parallels are so obvious when the tunes are sung in the same language - electric guitar.

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