Chords for An introduction to The Gloaming

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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ So I mean it's an unusual make-up of a band, like [Cm] good vocals, two [F] fiddles, a guitar and a [Bb] piano.
It doesn't sound like [Dm] a traditional [Bb] band really.
It doesn't sound like [Gm] it should even sound good.
_ _ And [F] I wasn't even thinking about the [Gm] instrumentation or anything, but I think
the main thought I had about this [C] was that the people here [Bb]
would have enough [F] musical empathy
[Bb] and enough musical kind of _ _ [F] _ [Gm] understanding.
And I thought, sure, [F] _ we'll just do it.
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_ _ _ I mean I remember the first time I heard [G] Martin play, there was something that happened to my [Bm] body
that I hadn't experienced before where I actually [G] felt like [D] _ my heart would expand and contract
[G] with the way he was playing.
_ [D] _ _ _ You can be sitting there thinking, oh this music is astonishingly beautiful
and oh what a [G] nice variation to the melody he did and you don't [D] realize that he's actually,
he's just kind of like slowly circling you with this net until he's got you in a place
that [G] you didn't think you were going to get to, you know.
[Bm] And he can do that every time.
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These tunes are so well written, it's amazing.
I mean they are really gems of music
that any composer would be just delighted to come up with.
And [Am] it's the mark for me, a mark of a great piece of music [D] that you can, it's bendable
and it doesn't lose its integrity.
And I think [C] the tunes are just spectacular like that.
They can be _ played in a lot of ways.
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[Em] Crivin [D] was part of a new generation of musicians, [Am] _ _ [Em] young and thoughtful.
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It's not so easy in a [Am] traditional [C] music form to [E] find your voice.
_ [D] It's a tricky thing. _
[A] And he did.
And he found a [F] unique voice [B] and a very unique way of [Am] playing.
_ [G] And I [Am] just thought that's fantastic.
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_ [Am] The music you make [Gm] [B] is a reflection of [Am] what's happening inside your head.
And [D] that's probably where to look.
For me, I suppose the sound [Gb] that's inside [C] my head
would have been influenced by pipes.
There's always more than maybe just the melody _ happening.
There [D] was a lot of drones _ [Gb] that I was trying [E] to let out.
_ [C] One of my favourite parts of this is, [A] I guess [E] Dennis is a real minimalist in a ways
and [D] I guess [Gbm] I am in my [A] own way.
[B] So I love the [D] kind of the space that Dennis leaves. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] Maybe as why [A] this band is working well is that I [D] _ don't [Am] recognise the lines that to them,
to the rest of this band, they see those lines and clearly are very happy to get outside of them
but it's hard when you're [G] so aware of what is meant to be done.
And the fact that I have absolutely no idea of what's [D] meant to be done makes _ [A]
them disappear.
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_ [Ab] There's something about [A] unaccompanied voice I really like.
And then I heard Earl, well [G] I'd heard him before on some [D] records and stuff
but then when you really got to hear him just doing the [G] hardcore stuff, it was quite [A] amazing.
He has a stunning voice.
_ [Bm] _ _ Slow airs are, [Am] you can't figure out a slow air.
[Gb] You just have to [F] listen to it and one day you wake up and you know [D] how it goes.
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_ _ [D] _ I _ _ _ _ _ heard _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Earless singing when he was about [D] _ 10 or 12.
And _ _ to my father who was not an Irish speaker and to me who was not an Irish speaker,
[Em] when we [D] heard Earless, _ [G] we heard something magical [D] [Ebm] straight off.
It had nothing to do [E] with the lyrics of what he was singing.
[D] It [Dbm] had all to do with the soul [D] and the feeling of it
and the fact that he was connected so deeply to that at such a young age.
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_ _ _ [Dm] I _ [Bb] _ _
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_ just [Dm] live from moment to moment in the music really.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] And whatever monkeys were on [Gm] my shoulder, like my back or [Dm] whatever,
I'd gotten them all off one by one.
_ _ I suppose [Bb] many of my heroes are probably dead and gone
but [F] nevertheless _ I wouldn't be [Dm] worried what they thought.
[Gm] At some point I had to play music and not be worried what my closest [D] mentor, my father, thought.
I had to play music that I knew he couldn't like.
[Gm] _ I had to play music that I knew [D] other people couldn't like.
I had to [Gm] approach it in ways [F] that I knew some people would actually find [Bm] offensive
and that it [Dm] didn't follow the [Bm] normal patterns of the music.
I mean even this thing with the gloaming that [D] we're doing is [G] something that's [A] _ [D] not_
[Bm] There's loads of people who wouldn't like [D] it but I [Bm] don't mind
because _ I have all the things I do that touch on [Em] different areas of the music.
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