''Changing Trains''
[''Mozaik – Changing Trains'', Compass Records 744682, 2007.] is the first studio album recorded by
Mozaik in Budapest during November 2005, and for which they had rehearsed new material a few months earlier, in January and April.
The album was initially released by the band in Australia in 2006 and, after additional re-mixing by
Dónal Lunny at Longbeard Studios in Dublin, was re-released in the autumn of 2007 under license to
Compass Records.
[Sleeve notes from ''Mozaik – Changing Trains'', Compass Records 744682, 2007.]
Recording
The album opens with "O'Donoghue's", written and sung by
Andy Irvine reminiscing about his early days in Dublin, when he first started frequenting this
pub
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in August 1962. In eleven verses, he vividly recalls these happy times, naming many of the people who were part of his transition from actor to musician, leading to his touring days with
Sweeney's Men and up to his departure "for the
Pirin Mountains" in the late summer of 1968.
On this first track,
Liam O'Flynn
Liam Óg O'Flynn ( ga, Liam Ó Floinn, 15 September 1945 – 14 March 2018) was an Irish uilleann piper and Irish traditional musician. In addition to a solo career and as a member of Planxty, O'Flynn recorded with: Christy Moore, Dónal Lun ...
joins Mozaik on
whistle.
Then comes the band's arrangement of "Sail Away Ladies/Walking in the Parlor", two
old-timey tunes, the first recorded by
Uncle Bunt Stephens
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, a
Tennessee
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fiddler, in 1925 and the second by Dr D. Dix Hollis in