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        • Echoes of Bamako
        • An Irish Farrago
        • ‘The Mountain Lark/Tom Doherty’s Reel’
      • Ensemble
        • Joy
        • Le Chéile is in Aonar
        • Stories from the Old World
        • Quirk No.3 'Goss Face'
        • Quirk No.5 'Horrific Spasm'
        • Manipulations
        • Polymetric Cycles
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        • No.2 - The Cranning
        • No.1 - Fairground Attractions
      • Guitar Quartets
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        • Against Feldman
        • Cran Óg
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        • The Mahatma of the Glen
        • Four Études for Five Fingers
        • Two Minimalist Etudes
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        • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
        • 5to9
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        • Homage Sonatina
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Echoes of Bamako (2003)
for String Orchestra - 5-6 mins

Premiered by the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Dvorak Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. 18 March 2009.
MIDI Recording

Programme Note


One of my biggest inspirations is the many styles of diverse music that come from Africa.

This piece was partly inspired by the great Malian band The Super Rail Band.

The work begins with a bit of a strange fanfare-like opening and then switches to music influenced by the hynotic rhythmic style of the Super Rail Band.

It ends with a bit a mix of Malian style melodic figures and Baroque sequences.

Echoes of Bamako received its World Premiere in the Dvorak Hall in Prague, Czech Republic on 18th March 2009 in a performance by the Prague Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jiri Malat
Picture
Dave Flynn pictured with the Prague Chamber Orchestra after the Premiere of Echoes of Bamako

Review from the Premiere!

I stumbled across this review, it's in Czech! Google Translate would give me the impression that the reviewer liked the opening but didn't like the repetitious nature of the rest of it. The audience seemed to like it though. You can't please everyone I guess!

Jak mi kdysi říkal jeden nejmenovaný dirigent: „Hodíš buly a pak už to jede samo“. Tento výrok mě napadl po chvíli poslechu naštěstí celkem krátké skladby Davida Flynna s názvem Echoes of Bamako (Ozvěny Bamaka) pro smyčce. Skladba se ze začátku zdála rytmicky docela nápaditá a svěží. To však záhy vyhaslo kvůli nadužívání metody opakujících se smyček. Z celkem zajímavého výchozího materiálu se postupně
David Flynn vyloupla naprosto tuctová hudba, která by možná fungovala pod nějakým obrazem jako podmalba, ale nikoli koncertně. Po přečtení bohatého životopisu a dlouhého výčtu úspěchů tohoto mladého autora jsem usoudil, že tato přehlídka pro Davida Flynna asi nebude ničím závažným.

František Lukáš
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        • The Clare Concerto
        • Aontacht
        • Music for the Departed (orchestra)
        • The Man from Maghera Rambles Through Africa
        • Mesh
        • Echoes of Bamako
        • An Irish Farrago
        • ‘The Mountain Lark/Tom Doherty’s Reel’
      • Ensemble
        • Joy
        • Le Chéile is in Aonar
        • Stories from the Old World
        • Quirk No.3 'Goss Face'
        • Quirk No.5 'Horrific Spasm'
        • Manipulations
        • Polymetric Cycles
      • String Quartets
        • No.3 - The Keening
        • No.2 - The Cranning
        • No.1 - Fairground Attractions
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        • Sebene
        • Against Feldman
        • Cran Óg
        • Errigal Suite
        • Kora
        • Chimurenga
      • Guitar
        • An Irish Raga
        • The Mahatma of the Glen
        • Four Études for Five Fingers
        • Two Minimalist Etudes
        • Rollercoaster
        • Three Gymn O’Paddy’s
        • 5to9
        • Passacaglia
        • Rainstorm
        • Homage Sonatina
      • Flute
        • Quirk No.7
        • The Forest of Ornaments
        • Ómos do Frankie Kennedy
        • Shadowplay
        • Quirk No.1
      • Violin
        • Tar Éis an Caoineadh (Solo violin/fiddle)
        • The Longest Reel (Solo Fiddle)
        • The Valley of the Lunatics
        • Toccata for Obama
        • Between the Jigs & the Reels
        • Music for the Departed (Trio version)
        • Tar Eís an Cran
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        • 12 Tone Bach
        • Seven/Eleven
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