Episode 5 Cuisle

WOMAN SINGS IN IRISH

# O chuaigh me seal tamaill ar cuairt

# Gur bhreathnaigh me uaim an speir

# O thart fa na hoileain de ruaig

# Mar eilit is cu ina diaidh

# Is e deireadh gach duine fan chuan

# Nuair a thainig me anuas fan che

# O aithnim go maigh ar do ghruaim

# Gur fear thu a bhfuil toir ina dhiaidh

# Casadh domh cailin deas og

# Ach ma casadh, is i labhair go gear

# Mas fear thu a bhain do mhnaoi oig

# Ni mholaim go mor do cheird

# Chonaic me fear ar tir mor

# Is e ag imeacht gan bhroig inne

# Is doigh liom gur tusa an fear og

# A bhfuiltear sa toir ina dhiaidh

# D'fhreagair me an ainnir dheas og

# Mar ghlac si go mor mo sceal

# Atad thusa a' do mhagadh nios mo

# Na ni duine den tsort sin me

# Ach druid thusa anall a mo chomhair

# Agus stad de ghlor gan cheill

# No rachaidh me os coinne mo shroin'

# Amach ar tir mor de leim

# Nuair a chuaigh muid isteach go tigh an oil

# O b'fhaiteach go leor linn si

# Ar fhaitios is go dtiocfadh an toir

# Is go mbainfi an oigbhean diom

# Nuair a fuair muid gach ni nar ba choir

# Duirt mise gur choir duinn siul

# Ach se duirt si Bi thusa a' ghabhail cheoil

# Is ni dhiolfaidh do phocai aon phingin

# O ni raibh me i bhfad ag gabhail cheoil

# Gur chruinnigh an t-aos og chun ti

# Bhi gach duine is a juga ina dhorn

# Le comoradh a thabhairt don dis

# Bhi biotailte fairsing go leor

# Is gan moran a ol sa tir

# Ach da n-olfainnse galun Ui Dhonaill

# B'fhurasta mo scor a dhiol. #

SHE SINGS IN TIBETAN

Yungchen, you've performed for audiences in over 70 countries.

What do you think of Ireland?

I feel Ireland is a second homeland for me.

I like the people very much.

Very close to me.

Tell us about your style of music.

When I write songs I try to keep my grandmother's roots,

and then from there I go through a journey.

You know, now I travel so many countries

and meet such wonderful,

talented people and cultures,

so then I write suitable for my voice, so really I cannot...

Sometimes, you know, people ask me, "What type?"

And I cannot put it in, say, a category.

I do write just for my voice.

The year 2010 was the year of Kan,

according to the Mayan oracle, the Tzolkin,

and it was a very auspicious time for new beginnings.

It's just the heat's making all the instruments out of tune.

My wife is from Mexico and she has introduced me

to this whole world of the Tzolkin and the music surrounding it,

so as to 2010 was the year of KAN,

we kind of had made a few fresh starts at the end of 2009,

got together and played some tunes,

so it just seemed like an appropriate time

to start something fresh, to take the leap.

So it has all sorts of undertones.

You know, you can draw a line from what Moving Hearts

might have been doing or what Planxty might have been doing

and what Silly Wizard and Capercaillie

and people like that were doing in Scotland.

And I think we are still part of that whole, kind of, chain

drawing on influences from different styles of music

and arriving where we do today.

There's a real magic involved in it, in composition.

Sometimes it will be for a trip that's been six months previous,

but it's taken a little while for it to be processed,

or a meeting or your heart being broke or,

you know, a babbie being born or something.

It's kind of, your music is your life and, you know,

if you haven't lived it it won't come out.

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