Album Notes

This album (the title is pronounced 'class ow ron') is the first of its kind - it features primarily parodies of traditional Irish Gaelic songs. The fun just begins with the funny lyrics though. The styles of music and the arrangements are wide ranging, from sean-nós (a capella) traditional singing to bluegrass, classical, electronic, and even heavy metal! Together with the Irish language songs (lyrics and translations are included for most songs), there are a few instrumentals (a fugue for harpsichord, an electronic composition, etc.) and one crazy song in English (with full orchestra!). And oh, have you ever heard "Ghost Riders in the Sky" in Irish?

Séamas Ó Neachtain (Shame us, oh nyak tun), a.k.a. Jim Norton, is the author of the bilingual book of poetry, An File ar Buile (Poems from America), and a teacher of the Irish language at the Gerry Tobin Irish Language school. He has a Masters degree in classical composition, has published a book of classical music for the electric bass, and has played on albums by Brian De Vale and Thom Hoffman. Séamas plays numerous acoustic, electric, sampled and synthesized instruments on this album, and does all the vocals. This is his first solo album.