Lankum: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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This performance was recorded on March 6, 2020. We will continue releasing Tiny Desk videos of shows that had already been taped. In light of current events, NPR is postponing new live tapings of Tiny Desk Concerts. In the meantime, check out Tiny Desk (home) concerts! They’re recorded by the artists in their home. It’s the same spirit - stripped-down sets, an intimate setting - just a different space.
May 18, 2020 | Bob Boilen -- Lankum's journey from Ireland to the Tiny Desk was a wild and bumpy adventure. First, visa problems forced them to cancel their late February date. A week later, much of the world is more worried about COVID-19, though daily patterns here hadn't changed. They arrived in New York, hopped in their van to Washington, D.C., only to have that break down. Finally, after all that, some good news: While in their new van heading to the Tiny Desk, the Dublin quartet received news that its brilliant album The Livelong Day had won Ireland's Choice Music Prize Album of the Year!
All of this was a build-up to a Tiny Desk concert I'll never forget. I, too, am a massive fan of the drones from the uilleann pipes, harmonium, concertina and the stunning voice of Radie Peat. The Livelong Day to my ears has as much in common with Irish tradition as it does to electronic music, though everything they do is acoustic. But the power and heft of what brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat convey through their reeds, strings, and vocals are deeply stirring emotionally and have stuck with me all these months since this concert's recording.
A week later I saw Lankum in concert. It was the last one I attended in a real venue and the world was rapidly changing. Their journey home, I trust, was frightening. The idea of getting on a plane was so very different from just a few weeks before. I know it was tough, but I'm ever so grateful for this life experience and grateful to be able to share it here.
SET LIST
"The Wild Rover"
"The Young People"
"Bear Creek"
MUSICIANS
Radie Peat: vocals, harmonium, baritone Irish concertina; Ian Lynch: vocals, uilleann pipes, baritone English concertina; Daragh Lynch: vocals, guitar; Cormac MacDiarmada: vocals, fiddle, viola
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith, Maia Stern; Creative director: Bob Boilen; Audio engineers: Josh Rogosin, Patrick Boyd; Videographers: Maia Stern, Bronson Arcuri, Melany Rochester, Jack Corbett; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Shanti Hands; Executive producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Bob Boilen/NPR
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Lankum are now getting the recognition they deserve. Such a fabulous group.
Putting ads in this video is a hate crime.
@justahumanbeing.709
3 жыл бұрын
get an ad blocker they are free to download.
@marleypumpkin4917
3 жыл бұрын
@@justahumanbeing.709 they are spyware / malware.
@justahumanbeing.709
3 жыл бұрын
@@marleypumpkin4917 i use ad block plus, never had a problem with it.
@karencontestabile6064
3 жыл бұрын
Then start paying like me...
@grahambell5340
3 жыл бұрын
Make a careful note of what they`re advertising . Never buy it . Tell everybody else never to buy it. It does more good than an adblocker and makes you feel better
My heart sings listening to this I'm a Derry man and I hear generations beneath this sound.
Lad's wearing a Kneecap t shirt you really love to see it. Ireland are on the map lads.
@marleypumpkin4917
3 жыл бұрын
Shut up fool.
@konorsmind
3 жыл бұрын
@@marleypumpkin4917 tiocfaidh ar lá
@HEATSEEKER00
3 жыл бұрын
‘Kneecap’ are British lads that think they are Irish. Nobody in Ireland cares about Lankum or kneecap except communist Dublin hipsters.
@konorsmind
3 жыл бұрын
@@HEATSEEKER00 actually boss not from dublin. from westmeath and living in galway, know a hape of lads that love kneecap haha
@mike_mcgb
3 жыл бұрын
@@HEATSEEKER00 You're a fool to assume you speak for all of us.
I did the sound for them a couple of years ago in a small venue in Leeds. They were a delight to work with and the evening was one of the best.
@markojack15
2 жыл бұрын
The working mens club in Burley?
@btrevelyan
3 ай бұрын
You mean the Brudenell? @@markojack15
Lankum manages to do Irish folk music that sounds both faithful to tradition and yet hauntingly contemporary.
Delighted to finally see this up on KZread. By far one of the most exciting Irish groups of any genre in a long time. Fair play to Boilen for being such a great advocate of contemporary Irish folk/trad. The Mary Wallopers next wha?
@the5th2000
4 жыл бұрын
Exciting? You're having a laugh. Soporific you mean?
@AWLD
4 жыл бұрын
@@the5th2000 stay mad
@mauricehigney4024
4 жыл бұрын
LOVE THE MARY WALLOPERS ...cod liver ......
@sarahlilliancullen
3 жыл бұрын
Big fan of the Mary wallopers!
@squeakyclean3012
3 жыл бұрын
I could literally hear you say that last sentence
I accidentally clicked on this video with the intent of exiting right away, but they had me intrigued with this gorgeous old folk sound. What a band. Need to check em out.
Radie brings it straight from the core of the planet boy
@ianhedderman5047
4 жыл бұрын
That is exactly it man
@patrickcannady2066
3 жыл бұрын
No lie
It is written in sand with the softest of feathers, it is not writ in stone like the walls of the chapel, and soon it is gone, like the soft winters at home. Makes me think of the relatives and friends that I've lost over the years, and how many of them were gone before their time. There's little left of their lives now. Just memories of moments in those who outlived them.
Guy on the fiddle, cranking away soft & easy, with the sound of a warm summer evening
This is so beautiful it’s actually making me cry. I’ve never heard of them before but now I’m desperate to see them live.
@Mikethebike721
4 жыл бұрын
They are amazing live.
@Hoswayner1
4 жыл бұрын
Check out their work on Spotify, Laura!
@neilmckay4097
4 жыл бұрын
'The Young People' is a total tear jerker. It's beautiful, but intensely raw and painful - and I say that as someone who hasn't been directly affected by the suicide of a close loved one. How it would feel for someone in that position I can only imagine.
Yup Lankum and up the Kneecap shirt haha
That vocal precision is breathtaking!!! I'm going to listen to all of their songs now...
Who else gets goosebumps when they all sing the hook on The Rover? Sounds so epic live!
@brianbishoff194
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah. Heavenly harmonies, restrained yet emotionally powerful over a driving droning background
@raefarnsworth9941
4 жыл бұрын
Amen. So beautiful it gives me chills.
@feefeeder
Жыл бұрын
Brings me to tears every time, even thinking about it, especially; "When the Young People Dance, they will not dance forever, I dont know whether its hooking into Deep melancholia or processing Irish ancestral suffering and hardship, the love of a dance , drink, land, so much in there. Trying to Exorcise this and bring about a new pattern , while aknowleding the lineage.
@LexWilson
Жыл бұрын
Intensely moving
this music is just euphoric, it makes me feel like im 1700's traveling folk artist, and Im sitting here at my computer...Thats's art.
@niallkelly2990
4 жыл бұрын
1700s Ireland...they would have been killed,jailed or put on a prison ship
@FireDrawNear
4 жыл бұрын
@@niallkelly2990 Haha, right enough!
I'm averse to any type of jingoism - but stellar proud so many Irish acts enhancing the trad tradition in so many brilliant ways. It ia getting even more brilliant - our New Irish are doing beautiful fusions - we are blessed.
Radie's voice hurts my heart it's just so beautiful
It's moments like 7:58 that make Lankum so special. Their music is huge and delicate at the same time.
Freshest take on Irish traditional music since Planxty, to my ears. Coincidentally, I grew up listening to music on a stereo purchased at Peats, Radie’s family business. I missed the February gig in Boston because of your visa problems, this helps!
@TheLordbanjo
3 жыл бұрын
Tbh they are good but Planxty are untouchable
@ainemcdonnelll
Жыл бұрын
The scratch also
@barrygormley
2 ай бұрын
The Gloaming also did some incredible stuff.
00:00 The Wild Rover 10:14 The Young People 14:50 Bear Creek
You can hear centuries of struggle in their sounds. Real soul real rock n roll.
Heartbreaking when the wails kick in at 12 minutes in. Like the screams of the dying boy in the lyrics. Brought me to tears.
The Livelong day is a trad/folk masterpiece
Been looking forward to this for a long time. Incredible performance as always.
Just found these I'm embarrassed to say ....absolutely hooked now
Bear creek gives me goosebumps
Wow, I’ve never heard of them or even really this type of music. I really enjoyed this! Thank you 🙏🏽
They don't need to talk much, they say everything through their music. This band is so real, I am inebriated whenever I listen to them. One of the few bands of the present that I'd be willing to travel to see live.
Ah this crushes it in every way--musicianship, innovation, passion.
Gwan lads... morning from Cork City!
Amazing ! In France, we have Corse region with people singing like that !
@edgeofwest5741
3 жыл бұрын
Celts too ?
@poorpaddy7803
2 жыл бұрын
@@edgeofwest5741 Like most of Europe (including France) they were most likely Celts at some stage around 2000 years ago - but the type of singing from Corsica that Henri is referring to is very Mediterranean not Celtic (polyphonic singing) and is pretty wonderful if you can track any down (I Muvrini, for ex.). I hear they are pretty well disposed towards the Irish, Corsicans, due to a common struggle for independence going back centuries. For the English in Ireland substitute the Italians and the French in Corsica.
Saw yous back in January in Vicar Street and it was an amazing gig, never stop making music 💖😁
Hypnotic audio tonics! Thank You NPR Music Tiny Desk for hosting Lankum! After reading the description, was taken because i am entranced by ancient sounds and the journey to America through sounds of Appalachia
@finnantobin
4 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that you consider this an 'ancient' sound; all of those instruments are imports into Ireland, as is the language the songs are being sang in!
@niallkelly2990
4 жыл бұрын
@@finnantobin ammm Irish pipes are pretty Irish and the fiddle is as irish are you o chara
@finnantobin
4 жыл бұрын
@@niallkelly2990 Oh all of those instruments are definitely Irish, I don't dispute that at all. But that doesn't get away from the fact that they're imports. Pipes didn't arrive until the 16th century, and the modern Irish fiddle is derived from Italy and dates to the 17th. Ancient Irish music was likely just low, droning horns and bodhrán style drums.
@francescobenati8203
3 жыл бұрын
@@finnantobin 17th century is quite a long time ago compared to the sounds that most of us listen on a daily basis
Lankum are the best Irish band right now regardless of genre.
@HEATSEEKER00
4 жыл бұрын
John Mcentee they are the sacred cow of Irish far left spastics you mean ....
@TheLordbanjo
4 жыл бұрын
@@HEATSEEKER00 you dont like Luke Kelly either? Also a communist.
@seanbaite47
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheLordbanjo Don't reckon he/it's too hot on Christy Brown or Moore neither - or particularly worth engaging with
@mike_mcgb
3 жыл бұрын
@@HEATSEEKER00 Big man to throw comments around but not enough to engage with people and answer for yourself when called on it.
@mike_mcgb
2 жыл бұрын
@@HEATSEEKER00 Claims to be more Irish than others, then spams Irish bands' comments sections with US far-right talking points. LOLOLOL
legends! fair play to ye lads, revisiting this nearly a year later xx
This was beautiful. I watched it again as soon as I finished it
beautiful - thanks for tputting this up - saw em a couple of times - stunning.
Advert in the feckin song! That was a real quick slap in the brain return to the real world
Lovely heratage, Thank you NPR, for spotlight falk art from all around the globe, it is enreaching mind and soul. 🌺🌺🌺
such beautiful harmony. Warms my soul
After watching Tiny Desk for a year it's amazing to see some more Irish folk behind the desk! Kila next?
@jimneysweep9810
4 жыл бұрын
luis martinez get over yourself
@emrmch
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely a bit of Kila!
@feadhanichaoimhe6165
4 жыл бұрын
THE DREAM
@ronan3884
4 жыл бұрын
@luis martinez You need to get checked my friend. They say having no taste is a symtom of Covid-19
@ChrisN3992
4 жыл бұрын
Junior Brother would be great.
Been dying for this to be uploaded since it was recorded. So good
@yvonnecarmody7003
4 жыл бұрын
When was it recorded? I’m sooo happy it’s here.
@sf-ww7bm
4 жыл бұрын
@@yvonnecarmody7003 just before quarantine, if i'm not mistaken :)
Lankum is my favourite band right now. They sound amazing. Hope we'll get to see bands like Talisk, Elephant Sessions or Fleuves on Tiny Desk!
@plumbawl5977
4 жыл бұрын
readin' minds r we that!
@JD-uq5sh
3 жыл бұрын
Check out Dallahan, Young Waters (so similar to Lankum wi the harmonies), john langan band. Let me know if you want a few more.
@thepottingshed1601
3 жыл бұрын
@@JD-uq5sh more please!
@JD-uq5sh
3 жыл бұрын
@@thepottingshed1601 Jellymans Daughter, The Mary Wallopers, Daori Farrel, Four Winds,
@thepottingshed1601
3 жыл бұрын
@@JD-uq5shthanks :D
The more I listen, the more I like. Lankum is beautiful
I am so glad I clicked on this video. Amazingly beautiful!
I love this sound and vibe. So gooooood.
Amazing! Make my day! These songs makes me feel so well
Thanks for make it happen ❤️✨
Just brilliant - great start to my morning. Thank you
my soul understands it. thank you
Reading the comments made me get teary! Thanks Lankum!
0:00 - *The Wild Rover* (9:36 / 9:52) 10:15 - *The Young People* (14:23) 14:50 - *Bear Creek* (19:17)
Just discovered them last night . ( Thank You KZread ). Hopefully they make it back to the States in 2021 !
It's beautiful to see you live at NPR!
There are so many gorgeous surprises in their songs
Wow, great, I'd like to hear these in an open air concert ( one day) ❤️ Love it!
Awesome sound, awesome band. So good to hear this!
Fair play for promoting Kneecap at same time, support for Irish musicians 👊
@brianchulito
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, saw that...nice one
@seanc6042
5 ай бұрын
Really lads? Wearing a t-shirt is for adolescents. Great music tho.
this is amazing! so beautiful and so different sound...
Their music s so haunting and powerful and does so much with relatively basic means. It is so HEAVY without being electric even! I get goosebumps whenever I listen to them. I get that they work in kind of a specific niche but I believe many music lovers from many different genres would be moved by them if given a chance.
I had tickets for their concert in Cork Opera for Paddy’s Day. It was postponed due to Covid ... I can’t wait to see them some day.
This was great! I'm a fan of folk music, so the moving melodies and drones had me in in a heartbeat. Plus the lyrics and story they told just pulled me in even more. Nice work NPR
@ballysham10
3 жыл бұрын
The story of wild rover is gas. Not having the price of a pint and making a whole song & dance out of it haha. Unbelievable song all the same
@mothratemporalradio517
2 жыл бұрын
Radie's voice has a quality that evokes drone instruments to me in itself which is one reason i find their music so unique and incredibly exceptional. i know it's not Irish per se and not used by the band, but for me, it's like she's got a bit of the hurdy gurdy in her - absolutely haunting lyricism.
I almost flew half way across the country to see the few shows they did just before the pandemic... one of my special groups over the last year
@zappafan3473
4 жыл бұрын
i flew from CA to NYC for their show
Amazing ! Wish it was longer . They are so good .
BEAUTIFUL
The best musical act currently performing in Ireland. And it's not even close.
@Maddy7210
4 жыл бұрын
You've clearly never heard the Fontaine's DC
@DancingMad1000
4 жыл бұрын
@@Maddy7210 I have, and they are very good, but I stand by my statement!
@mike_mcgb
2 жыл бұрын
@@Maddy7210 The statement that proves the poster's point exactly. The Fontaines derive authenticity from the past, Lankum channel it into something new and completely other. Not even a comparison
Their gig in Vicar Street January of 2020 was a top 3 gig of a lifetime for me. I'm sure anyone else who saw them then might agree. They were otherworldly.
I like how 3/4 of the way through the set, some guy was like “excuse me Radie Peat we need this table so you’re gonna have to finish your set while on the floor. Sorry company policy.”
Spotting a magical fiddlebow between 13:19 - 13:26. Love the framing
Ah great goodness, yes! Lankum made it!
This transports me.
So so good.
Incredibly beautiful
Wow... Wild Rover is beautiful, and when it hits around 08:40 on here its just an amazing sound.
The first song just brought tears to my eyes and I couldn't even understand a word they said. Music is so powerful.
@simonr5171
4 жыл бұрын
Why? They are singing in English, which is a language you appear to know!
@alanoflynn5614
4 жыл бұрын
@@simonr5171 Because they are singing in a heavy folk style with strong accent and layered harmony. To a non native English speaker that would be hard to decifer at times.
@FireDrawNear
4 жыл бұрын
@@alanoflynn5614 'Heavy folk style' - I like it!
@mike_mcgb
3 жыл бұрын
@@alanoflynn5614 That's not a heavy accent.
@mothratemporalradio517
2 жыл бұрын
@@FireDrawNear 🤟
That was phenomenal!
Jaysis lads isnt this something wha? Lovely stuff altogether.
fookin magical
Absolutely fantastic! Seems to me Tiny desk was founded especially for these 🇨🇮 4 👍!
outrageously good!
Gan ceoil, gan saol.
@MiniSynnYT
4 жыл бұрын
Tá sé iontach tráchtanna a fheiceáil i nGaeilge! Tá Lankum thar cionn.
simply stunning
Good God. This is bliss.
Beautiful. Thanks
Superb. Finest band since the Incredible String Band. Very few bands are truly unique but Lankum is one for sure.
@edgeofwest5741
3 жыл бұрын
This just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Irish folk music.
@LifeOnLewis
3 жыл бұрын
@@edgeofwest5741 I have been listening to Irish folk music for over 50 years and sure there is a lot more but Lankum have broken off that iceberg and taken the music in a whole new direction.
@edgeofwest5741
3 жыл бұрын
@@LifeOnLewis not sure about that, they have a style for sure but their not breaking any new ground here in Ireland
@mothratemporalradio517
2 жыл бұрын
@@edgeofwest5741 i think Lankum are phenomenal but perhaps you can enlighten us to some other bands you consider as or more unique while drawing attention to their work, which might help to widen their audience/income?
@mike_mcgb
Жыл бұрын
@@mothratemporalradio517 Sean-nós singing: Inni-K, Ceara Conway. More contemporary/crossover stuff: The Gloaming, The Olllam. More dark business: Lankum solo project One Leg, One Eye. Post-millennial goodtimes balladeering: The Mary Wallopers. Hip-hop sampling trad stuff: Deviant and Naive Ted's 'Send in the Hounds'. Hip-hop as Gaeilge Uladh: Kneecap. Dancehall as Gaeilge Connacht: Ushmush. Black metal as Gaeilge Mumhan: Corr Mhóna. Béir bua!
Beautiful !!!!!!!!!
Beautiful. Raw the Kneecap shirt is mint ! Keepin her lit.
I wanna see Lankum play in like a cathedral or huge cave, a huge space with maybe another bass instruement
@mike_mcgb
Жыл бұрын
They usually play St Luke's in Cork, a deconsecrated Church of Ireland church.
Nice to see a Kneecap T-shirt there. The two most exciting bands in Ireland at the moment.
Bear Creek reminds me of a much wanted past that isn't actually there. Brilliant.
Cheers for the goosebumps
Magical, just magical.
Love this.
Awesome band!
Thank you !
just brilliant!
LOVE IT 🙌🏼
Bear Creek is one of the best pieces of modern traditional Irish music I've heard
@spaceant2919
2 ай бұрын
Its actually american in orign XD I agree though, their rendition is amazing!!
@SonysDream
2 ай бұрын
@@spaceant2919prove it?
Deadly!!!