Various Composers - The Green Little Island (Isao & Masako Moriyasu)

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1. Turlough O'Carolan - Carolan's Maggot - George Brabazon First Air - George Brabazon Second Air
2. Turlough O'Carolan - The Seas are Deep
3. Turlough O'Carolan - Mr Connor
4. Turlough O'Carolan - Daniel Kelly
5. Anonyme - Radara meen Chusogh
6. Anonyme - Ta me ma Chulla's na doushe me
7. Anonyme - Drunken Wives of Carlisle
8. Anonyme - Johnnie Faa
9. Anonyme - Highland Laddie
10. Anonyme - Saw na ye my Peggy
11. Phil Cunningham - Finlay M. MacRae
12. Phil Cunningham - When Summer Ends
13. Anonyme - The Blackbird
14. Anonyme - The Green Little Island
15. Anonyme - The Soft Deal Board
16. Anonyme - An Phis Fhliuch
17. Anonyme - Ballyknock Rambler
18. Bill Finn - Mickey Finn's
19. Paddy O'Brien - The Coming of Spring - The Burning Breaks
20. Vincent Broderick - Twin Towers
21. Anonyme - The Porthole of the Kelp - The Maids of Michelstown
22. Anonyme - Kilnamona Barndance

Isao Moriyasu, flute, whistle & concertina

Masako Moriyasu, Irish harp & concertina

Date: 2007 / 2026

Label: Waon Records

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This album explores the enduring appeal of Irish and Scottish music over three centuries from an unprecedented perspective. Experience the very essence of music passed down through oral tradition.

Isao Moriyasu is a Japanese musician and educator specializing in recorder performance, Irish traditional music, and Edo Sato Kagura. A graduate of the Department of Early Music at Toho Gakuen University, he later completed postgraduate studies there and won top honors at the 10th All Japan Recorder Competition. Moriyasu also trained in Japanese flute and drums under Wakayama Taneo and performs with the nationally recognized Edo Sato Kagura Wakayama Troupe. Since the 1990s, he has frequently traveled to Ireland to collaborate with local artists, with his work featured on Irish national television in 2002. He is also an author, translator, concert organizer, and lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Music.