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SHARON SHANNON

The Reckoning

Philippe Cousin

It is now exactly thirty years since Sharon Shannon's debut solo album "exploded" on the Irish music scene, becoming the best-selling traditional album in the British Isles at the time.

Sharon comes back to us in this particular year of pandemic with a completely original album, recorded in conditions that are no less original, since she herself has composed, recorded, contacted a host of musicians who have also recorded all over the world, due to the health crisis.

She even pushed originality, she who excels on accordion but also on fiddle and whistle, by learning to play electric guitar in five days, thus taking up a challenge launched by an Irish rugby player. The result was The Jolly Roger, which hit social networks with 290,000 views in just a few weeks.
With The Reckoning Sharon Shannon continues to defy genres and the fifteen or so albums she has to her credit testifies to an undeniable spirit of openness to all the music of the world.
The title track with singer and guitarist Jon Allen contains rock riffs, proof of her desire to break free of musical boundaries.
African sounds are sprinkled throughout Unlocked where Irish and Saharan cultures dance together while The Beast from the East has more than Middle Eastern overtones.
Sharon has also called on two radically different bands. First of all the Scandinavian trio Dreamers Circus who mix Irish and Nordic traditions on Harmony Hall. Then the group Le Vent du Nord who add a French-Canadian flavour on Refrains d'Irlande.
There is Timbuktu, a song imbued with the rhythms and sounds of North Africa. And Off to Californee on which Linton Kwesi Johnson starts a kind of reggae-style rap.
But Ireland is not forgotten with Merry-Go-Round, a song for which Sharon Shannon has called upon the talent of Dónal Lunny. Or Daddy Shannon's Jig/The Bealaeana Polka on which she goes back to her musical roots, sort of tribute to her father and her native home.
On this superb opus, Sharon Shannon once again pushes her musical limits further than she has ever done before. The result is original, captivating, sometimes hair-raising, never boring.

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