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Na Coille Cumhra

from Revelation by ANÚNA

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    CULTURE MUSIC ALBUM REVIEWS CLASSICAL
    Anúna: Revelation | Album Review
    Siobhan Long

    Nine years on from their last CD release, and close to three decades since their founder, Michael McGlynn, first convened this choral group, Anúna exists, as Sliabh Luachra does, as much a state of mind as an entity.

    The group’s membership ebbs and flows, but McGlynn’s steely focus is ever-present. Revelation glories in a rich coalition of original material composed by McGlynn, alongside a beautiful early Christian text, Sanctus Santua, and, somehow fittingly, two divinely poised Japanese pieces whose sinuous lines allow the full choral potential of the group to shimmer.

    The opener, Mononoke Hime, reveals the deeper warp and weft of the ensemble. McGlynn’s writing has grown in confidence and subtlety, and the decision to use harmonica on Elegy (with text from the Book of Ecclesiasticus) adds to the richness of Anúna’s sound.

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lyrics

A chumainn is a shearc, rachaimid-ne seal
faoi choillte ag scaipeadh drúchta,
Mar a bhfaighimid-ne breac, is lon ar an nead,
an fia agus an boc ag búireadh;

A rún agus a shearc, gluaisfimid gan stad
go coillte breá glasa an Triúcha
A chúl álainn tais na bhfáinní cas,
is breá 's deas do shúile.

An t-éinín is binne ar ghéaga ag seinm
an chuaichín ar barr an iúir ghlais;
Is go bráth, bráth ní thiocfaidh an bás 'nár ngoire
i lár na coille cumhra.

English translation:

My love and desire, we will go for a while
beneath the woods, scattering the dew.
We will find the trout and the blackbird on her nest,
the bellowing deer and stag

My dear, my love, let us go without waiting
to the lovely green woods of Triúcha
Soft beautiful hair in twisting curls
your eyes are fine and lovely.

The sweetest bird singing on a branch
the cuckoo on the top of the green yew tree;
And death will never, never come to us
in the middle of the fragrant woods.

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from Revelation, released June 26, 2015
Music by Michael McGlynn, text traditional Irish

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Falling into no category easily, Anúna remain at the fringe of contemporary music after over a quarter of a century of life. Timeless, ancient and simultaneously relevant to this world.
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