TROY DONOCKLEY

Discography

The Unseen Stream

Tracks

  1. Wild Black Coast
  2. Sights
  3. Air
  4. The Yearl
  5. Carousel
  6. Tunnels
  7. Finlandia
  8. Death Of Rainbows

“Grandiose in conception. Troy Donockley has arrived and the world of the uilleann pipes will never be the same again.

Irish Music Magazine

Pursuit of Illusion

Tracks

  1. Conscious
  2. The Pursuit of Illusion
  3. Little Window
  4. Floating World
  5. A Bridge
  6. Fragment
  7. Colour of the Door (Part 1)
  8. Colour of the Door (Part 2)

 

Pursuit Of Illusion is indeed primarily an instrumental album with several of the tracks having enormous soundtrack quality in their sound. In addition to Joanne Hogg’s vocal contributions, Troy was also ably assisted by Iona members past and present including Terl Bryant (drums, percussion) and Nigg Beggs (chapman stick).A variety of other guests contributed strings and woodwinds while the York Cantores provide choir parts to several of the tracks.
We especially appreciated the Celtic touches across the album in strings, percussion and woodwinds and made note of the tremendous whistle melodies that Troy is long known for. The choir parts are equally lovely and work perfectly in Troy’s compositions. Troy’s own vocal work is equally delightful; it in fact joins oboe, choir and organ in the thematic opening number “Conscious.”

Musical Discoveries

The Madness of Crowds

Tracks

  1. The Madness of Crowds
  2. Reeds
  3. Exiled
  4. Now, Voyager
  5. The Procession
  6. Orkahaugr
  7. End of Faith

 

“This is a work of exceptional quality. The music presented is beautiful and elegant, flowing majestically and executed flawlessly”.

Sea of Tranquility

“He is idiosyncratic, a true one off, somebody who doesn’t follow the rules, a benign musical rebel and enriches whatever he touches with a certain class and unmistakable individuality. ‘The Madness of Crowds’ is pretty well unique. It will endure”.

Simon Jones Froots

Messages

Tracks

  1. SIGHTS (from The Unseen Stream)
  2. FOR HIM WHO WILL NEVER RETURN (New & Unreleased)
  3. NOW VOYAGER (from The Madness of Crowds)
  4. FRAGMENT (from The Pursuit of Illusion)
  5. ORKAHAUGR (from The Madness of Crowds)
  6. FINLANDIA (from The Unseen Stream)
  7. DUNMAIL RISING (New & Unreleased)
  8. PURSUIT OF ILLUSION (from The Pursuit of Illusion)
  9. TUNNELS (from The Unseen Stream)
  10. THE PROCESSION (from The Madness of Crowds)

 

If you’re a fan of Troy’s playing and the prospect of a more laid-back and classical Iona style music appeals to you, then Messages is something you will undoubtedly enjoy. It is an album of subtle beauty, which portrays Troy’s amazing ability of touching our hearts with both the simplest and more complicated compositions. Messages might be a “mere” compilation, but as far as compilations go, this one really is a keeper!

Prog Magazine

Auri

  1. The Space Between
  2. I Hope Your World Is Kind
  3. Skeleton Tree
  4. Desert Flower
  5. Night 13
  6. See
  7. The Name Of The Wind
  8. Aphrodite Rising
  9. Savant
  10. Underthing Solstice
  11. Them Thar Chanterelles (feat. Liquor in the Well)

Auri

Those we don’t speak of

  1. Those We Don’t Speak Of
  2. The Valley
  3. The Duty of Dust
  4. Pearl Diving
  5. Kiss the Mountain
  6. Light and Flood
  7. It tTakes Me Places
  8. The Long Walk
  9. Scattered to the Four Winds
  10. Fireside Bard

Yesterwynde

Once there was a dream.

And once upon a time – many, many moons ago – there was an enchanting summery twilight – a night full of wishes – on the rocky shores of a North Karelian island. There and then, under the luminous sky and by the crackling campfire, the magic was refined: beautiful acoustic melodies and serene chords began to shine with shooting stars.

  1. Yesterwynde
  2. An Ocean Of Strange Islands
  3. The Antikythera Mechanism
  4. The Day Of…
  5. Perfume Of The Timeless
  6. Sway
  7. The Children Of ‘Ata
  8. Something Whispered Follow Me
  9. Spider Silk
  10. Hiraeth
  11. The Weave
  12. Lanternlight

Imaginaerum

    1. Taikatalvi
    2. Storytime
    3. Ghost River
    4. Slow, Love, Slow
    5. I Want My Tears Back
    6. Scaretale
    7. Arabesque (instrumental)
    8. Turn Loose the Mermaids
    9. Rest Calm
    10. The Crow, the Owl and the Dove
    11. Last Ride of the Day
    12. Song of Myself
      I. From a Dusty Bookshelf
      II. All That Great Heart Lying Still
      III. Piano Black
      IV. Love
    13. Imaginaerum (instrumental)

Human:II:Nature

Ninth studio album from Finnish gothic sextet, Nightwish. ‘Human. :||: Nature.’ follows on from 2015’s critically acclaimed, ‘Endless Forms Most Beautiful’ and is a double album containing nine tracks on one disc and and one long track, divided into eight chapters, on the other.

Disc: 1

  1. Music
  2. Noise
  3. Shoemaker
  4. Harvest
  5. Pan
  6. How’s The Heart?
  7. Procession
  8. Tribal
  9. Endlessness

 

Disc: 2

All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World

  1. Vista
  2. The Blue
  3. The Green
  4. Moors
  5. Aurorae
  6. Quiet As The Snow
  7. Anthropocene (incl. “Hurrian Hymn To Nikkal”)
  8. Ad Astra

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

  1. Shudder Before the Beautiful
  2. Weak Fantasy
  3. Élan
  4. Yours is an Empty Hope
  5. Our Decades in the Sun
  6. My Walden
  7. Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  8. Edema Ruh
  9. Alpenglow
  10. The Eyes of Sharbat Gula
  11. The Greatest Show on Earth

Dark Passion Play

Dark Passion Play is the sixth studio album by Nightwish, It is the first album involving future member Troy Donockley on uilleann pipes and tin whistle.

  1. The Poet and The Pendulum
  2. Bye Bye Beautiful
  3. Amaranth
  4. Cadence of Her Last Breath
  5. Master Passion Greed
  6. Eva
  7. Sahara
  8. Whoever Brings the Night
  9. For the Heart I Once Had
  10. The Islander
  11. Last of the Wilds
  12. 7 Days to the Wolves
  13. Meadows of Heaven

Jouney into the Morn

  1. Bi – Se I Mo Shuil (Part 1)
  2. Irish Day
  3. Windom
  4. Everything Changes
  5. Inside My Heart
  6. Encircling
  7. Journey Into the Morn
  8. Lindisfarme
  9. No Herart Beats
  10. The Search
  11. Divine Presence
  12. Heaven’s Bright Sun
  13. Bi – Se I Mo Shuil (Part 2)
  14. When I Survey

Heaven’s Bright Sun

Disc 1

  1. Turning Tide
  2. Treasure
  3. Flight of the Wild Goose
  4. Today
  5. Irish Day
  6. Luke
  7. Inside My Heart
  8. Trilogy
  9. I Will Give My Love an Apple

 

Disc 2

  1. The Island
  2. Iona
  3. Columcille
  4. Heaven’s Bright Sun
  5. Chi-Rho
  6. Bi-Se I Mo Shuil Part 28
  7. Kells Theme
  8. Reels
  9. When I Survey

Woven Chord

  1. Overture
  2. Bi”-Se I Mo Shuil Pt. 1
  3. Matthew – The Man
  4. White Sands
  5. Murlough Bay
  6. Dancing on the Wall
  7. Encircling
  8. Lindisfarne
  9. Revelation
  10. Woven Cord
  11. Beyond These Shores

Open Sky

Those we don’t speak of

  1. Woven Cord
  2. Wave After Wave
  3. Open Sky
  4. Castlerigg
  5. A Million Stars
  6. Light Reflected
  7. Hinba
  8. Songs of Ascent (part 1)
  9. Songs of Ascent (part 2)
  10. Songs of Ascent (part 3)
  11. Friendship’s Door

The Circling Hour

  1. Empyrean Dawn
  2. Children of Time
  3. Strength
  4. Wind off the Lake
  5. Factory of Magnificent Souls
  6. Sky Maps
  7. No Fear in Love
  8. Wind, Water & Fire – Wind
  9. Wind, Water & Fire – Water
  10. Wind, Water & Fire – Fire
  11. Fragments of a Fiery Sun

Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera

  1. I Fought the Law (Bobby Fuller Four)/ Cockers at Pockers
  2. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (The Jam)
  3. Rise (P.I.L.)
  4. Whole Wide World (Wreckless Eric)/ Hag With the Money (traditional song)
  5. The Model (Kraftwerk)
  6. Humours of Tullah/ Teenage Kicks (The Undertones)/ Whisky in the Jar / The Merry Blacksmith
  7. Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads) / Pinch of Snuff
  8. London Calling (The Clash) / Manchester Calling
  9. Up the Junction (Squeeze)
  10. Yan Tyan Tethera Methera: Fraher’s jig (original song)/ Coppers & Brass/ The Old Bush/ Rip the Calico
  11. God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)/ Mountain Road

By Hook or by Crook

  1. Anarchy In The UK (Sex Pistols)
  2. Sound of The Suburbs (The Members)
  3. Making Plans For Nigel (XTC)
  4. Friday Night, Saturday Morning Medley, 4a: Friday Night/ Saturday Morning (The Specials), 4b: Albion Street (original song), 4c: Humours of Ballyloughlin (traditional song), 4d: Castle Kelly (traditional song)
  5. Ramones Medley, 5a: Now I Want To Sniff Glue (The Ramones), 5b: Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (The Ramones), 5c: Trip To Athlone (traditional song), 5d: Spike Island Lasses (traditional song), 5e: Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
  6. Panic (The Smiths)
  7. Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
  8. Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (The Buzzcocks)
  9. White Riot Medley, 9a: Humours of Drinagh (traditional song), 9b: White Riot (The Clash), 9c: O’Rourkes (traditional song), 9d: The Boyne Hunt (traditional song)

Mud, Blood & Beer

  1. Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
  2. No More Heroes (The Stranglers)
  3. The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Fun Boy Three)
  4. Going Underground (The Jam)
  5. What A Waste (Ian Dury)
  6. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (The Adverts)
  7. Shipbuilding (Robert Wyatt)
  8. Road To Nowhere (Talking Heads)
  9. Mud, Blood & Beer (original song)
  10. Off To The Beer Tent (original song)

Flesh & Blood

  1. Sheath & Knife
  2. The Rolling English Road
  3. Honest Work
  4. Finlandia
  5. Hind Horn
  6. Bitter Withy
  7. Dramatis Personae
  8. Who Am I?
  9. Cruel Mother
  10. Boy on a Horse
  11. Jade
  12. Brother Lawrence
  13. The Laugh and the Kiss
  14. The Point
  15. Heart of Stone

Ravenchild

  1. Twankydillo (Trad)
  2. Bold Poachers” (Trad)
  3. Boney (Shanty: Boney was a Warrior) (Trad)
  4. Scorched Earth
  5. Loot (Words: M Prior/ Tune: Trad)
  6. Rigs ofTimes
  7. In the Company of Ravens
  8. Young Bloods (Maddy Prior)
  9. The Masts of Morrigan (Maddy Prior)
  10. Rich Pickings (Maddy Prior)
  11. Ravenchild (Maddy Prior)
  12. Dance on the Wind (Maddy Prior)
  13. Great Silkie of Sules Skerry(Trad)

Arthur the King

  1. The Name of Arthur
  2. Veturae Remembering
  3. Hallows i
  4. Queen and Sovereignty)
  5. Hallows ii
  6. Tribal Warriors )
  7. Hallows iii
  8. Sentry
  9. Hallows iv
  10. Once and Future King
  11. Reynardine
  12. Hail the Ball
  13. Duke of Marlborough
  14. Fanny Blair
  15. Lark in the Morning

Lionhearts

  1. Maman
  2. John
  3. Salah ed-Din
  4. Old Lion
  5. Thomas
  6. War Games
  7. Salisbury Plain
  8. John Barleycorn
  9. The Yellow Handkerchief
  10. The Ship In Distress
  11. Jupiter

Full Circle

  1. Garten Mother’s Lullaby
  2. The Sky Above the Roof
  3. Across the Hills
  4. The Unquiet Grave
  5. Faithless Love
  6. Westron
  7. Wynde
  8. Corpus Christi Carole
  9. Living too Close to the Ground
  10. Singing Bird
  11. When I Am Laid In Earth
  12. Eriskay Love Song

Time and Tide

  1. The Lowlands of Holland
  2. Disremember Me
  3. Rigs o’ Rye
  4. Goin’ Back
  5. The Water is Wide (O Waly, Waly)
  6. Dream Angus
  7. Witch of the Westmerlands
  8. Lady Franklin’s Lament
  9. Palm Sunday
  10. Smile

Words Unspoken

  1. The Magical West
  2. Jamie Raeburn
  3. Ythanside
  4. The Trees They Do Grow High
  5. Will Ye Gang Love?
  6. Smile In Your Sleep
  7. My Donald
  8. Personent Hodie
  9. Kishmul’s Galley
  10. Ca’ The Yowes
  11. King Orfeo
  12. Bridge Over Troubled Water

To Each and Everyone

  1. Baker Street
  2. Where I Belong
  3. Family Tree
  4. As Wise As A Serpent
  5. The Light of Love
  6. Steamboat Row
  7. Look At The Moon
  8. Over My Head
  9. Mary Skeffington
  10. Waters Of Forgetfulness
  11. To Each And Everyone
  12. The Ark
  13. nother World

Winter

  1. Winter’s Come
  2. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
  3. In the Bleak Midwinter
  4. Creator of the Stars of Night
  5. The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came
  6. Of the Father’s Love Begotten
  7. The Silence of the Dawn
  8. The January Man
  9. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
  10. My Song is Love Unknown
  11. Winter Song

Five Songs

  1. Palace Grand
  2. The Laird O’ The Dainty Dounby
  3. The Hill
  4. Farewell To Fiunary
  5. October Song

Sessions List

Sonata Arctica
Maartin Allcock
Del Amitri
Mostly Autumn
Moya Brennan
Jennifer Cutting
Troy Donockley & Dave Bainbridge

The Enid
Joanne Hogg
Kamelot
Katrina & the Waves
Rick Kemp
Magenta
Mandalaband

Status Quo
Alan Stivell
Kathryn Tickell
Midge Ure
Oliver Wakeman
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Chris While & Julie Matthews