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Wikipedia: Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish musical group, from Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), County Donegal. Their music has been variously described as bordering on folk and folk rock, Irish, and New Age. They are known for performing in various languages, including English, Latin, Gàidhlig, Mohican and most of all in their native tongue, Irish. Clannad are Moya Brennan (born Máire Ní Bhraonáin), Ciarán Brennan (born Ciarán Ó Braonáin), Pól Brennan (born Pól Ó Braonáin), Noel Duggan (born Noel Ó Dúgáin) and Pádraig Duggan (born Pádraig Ó Dúgáin). Clannad first made their mark in the folk and traditional scene in the 1970s in Ireland and Europe, they subsequently went on to bridge the gap between traditional celtic music and pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with albums such as Macalla and Anam. During their successful career they toured the world extensively and gained fans in every major territory. Lead singer Moya Brennan and her sister Enya have also enjoyed huge success as solo artists. The band won a Grammy Award in 1998 for Best New Age Album, and their record sales exceed the 15 million mark. They are also regarded as the band which, for the first time, put Irish traditional music and the Irish language on the world stage and paved the way for many other Irish artists. After ten years disbanded, the five original members of Clannad reunited on stage at the Celtic Connections Festival in February 2007 in Glasgow. They expressed their wishes to release a new studio album, but no official announcements have been made as yet. Siblings Ciarán, Pól and Máire Uí Bhraonáin (Brennan) and their two uncles Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin (Duggan) grew up in Gweedore, a remote part of Ireland's countryside. They were surrounded with music. The Brennans' mother, Baba, was a music teacher and their father, Leo, was a former member of a cabaret band. Leo was travelling extensively in the early family years. Later, they bought a pub, with a stage Leo's Tavern (Tábhairne Leo). The children would occasionally do cover versions of Beatles, Beach Boys and Joni Mitchell songs at home and in their family pub. The name Clannad comes from Clann As Dobhar, meaning 'the family from Dore'. The children were performing late at night in the pub (the story was recounted by Máire, TG4, 17 March 2007, Clann as Dobhar & Clannad Beo), when the local police sergeant walked in. They feared a summons, but instead the policemen had a form to enter a local music competition. They didn't have a name at the time, but had to find one for the competition. Someone suggested Clann As Dobhar, which was provisionally abbreviated to Clannad. The young Brennans' and Duggans' passion for the traditional music of Ireland soon expanded even beyond their native Gweedore. They would later visit such outlying communities as Tory Island off Donegal's coast. Armed with some 500 Gaelic songs, they would later begin to arrange these songs for a full band, something which had previously never been done. A further change occurred when member Pól Brennan left the group to pursue a solo career and work with the WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) organization in Britain. He released a trio album in 1993 with Guo Yue and Joji Hirota under the new name Trísan. The true reason for Pól's departure is unknown, being a family band, very little information is released about personal and professional relations about and between the members. The band continued on as a quartet and recorded their most successful album in some time, 1991's Anam. It marked a return to the Clannad sound of such albums as Magical Ring and Fuaim and was recorded in just two and a half months at the band's home studio in the hills of Dublin. On Pól's leaving the rest of the group began sharpening their song-writing skills with Ciarán, already the main source of their original music. The title Anam means "Soul" in Irish and the album's 10 songs showed the usual blending of their traditional roots, their rockier later-period and their ethereal sound. The album was finally released in the USA in 1992 with a different cover and the addition of the previously released Bono duet "In A Lifetime" and "Theme From Harry's Game", which had been included in the motion picture Patriot Games. As a result, it got used on the Volkswagen advertisement, which helped establish the band's career in the USA and the song went on to win the Billboard Music Award for "World Music Song of the Year". They dedicated the opening song "Rí na Cruinne" to the One World One Voice charity project. In 1991, a duet between the band and Paul Young, "Both Sides Now" was released. The track had been put together for the Blake Edwards film Switch, featuring Ellen Barkin. In the storyline, a nasty male chauvinist, is re-incarnated as an attractive female. The use of the Joni Mitchell song was therefore quite suitable and proved a hit for the group.

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And you can read more in detail about the group @ Wiki, @ home and @ allmusic

Tracklisting:
1. Rí Na Cruinne
2. Anam
3. In Fortune's Hand
4. The Poison Glen
5. Wilderness (instrumental)
6. Why Worry?
7. Úirchill An Chreagáin
8. Love And Affection
9. You're The One
10. Dobhar (instrumental)
11. Rí Na Cruinne" (Lazyboy Mix)

Additional infos and reviews for this album are located @ Wiki and @ allmusic

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allmusic: With the release of Anam in 1992, the Irish family act, with more than a dozen albums and 20 years behind them, had been pared to a quartet. Saxophonist Mel Collins spices things up on the jaunty "In Fortune's Hand," but most of Anam is slower and softer, mixing keyboard-based ballads with more folk-inflected tracks. Máire Brennan's voice is a thing of beauty, wispy and crystal clear, making the lyrics almost inconsequential (which they will be to most listeners anyhow, as several tracks are sung in Gaelic). It's all the perfect fit for folk fans wanting something more pop-oriented and new age fans wanting something not so sterile. (This version of the album includes the "Lazyboy Mix" of "Rí Na Cruinne" as a bonus track.)

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Other Clannad and related albums:
Clannad - Dúlamán (1976)
Clannad - Banba {Deluxe Edition} (1993)
Máire Brennan - Perfect Time (1998)
Máire Brennan - Máire (1992)