Album Notes

Ashley MacIsaac is the original Celtic-punk and bad boy of World Music. The controversial out of the closet fiddle player from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia was taught to play the working-class, pub-stomp Cape Breton way: fast, furious, and with phenomenal precision. Alternately considered a rebel, taking the old fiddling conventions in newfangled directions they were never meant to go, or a champion, reforming and re-creating Celtic music with an updated, mass-appeal quality as seen on his genre-bending hit album Hi How Are You Today?, MacIsaac has unarguably put his own spin on the sounds he was brought up with.

Pride offers the first real glimpse inside the mind of Ashley MacIsaac. It is his first album that was not created by studio re-mixers around instrumental flourishes of his trademark fiddle. In fact on Pride Ashley MacIsaac abandons his fiddle and emerges as a singer-songwriter and storyteller. It is a collection of poetic musings drawn from his extraordinary experiences, set to distorted guitar and lo-fi arrangements that have more in common with Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Beck than the traditional Celtic influences of previous albums. A true Celtic icon, the subject of a bestselling book and TV documentary, selling over half a million albums around the world, Pride is a bold step for an artist that has set the standard for artistic individuality, eccentricity and creativity.

Other Ashley MacIsaac albums available on CDBaby:

Hi, How Are You Today?
Fine, Thank You Very Much
Live at the Savoy
A Cape Breton Christmas

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