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Re: Davy Spillane

From: rolando@system.abacom.it (Rolando Michelazzi)
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 23:17:38 +0100
Subject: Re: Davy Spillane
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 On 02 May 96, David Pye wrote:

>Can anyone help me? I have a tape of Davy Spillane's 'EastWind' album
>and one of the tracks on it sounds exactly like 'The Sensual World'. I
>don't know if it is a cover of TSW as I don't have a track listing for
>the album. Is it his version of TSW, is it a traditional tune they've
>both used or is it just coincidence?

The track you refer is titled "Antice". According to the sleeve notes it is
a Macedonian song (pronunced Ann-tee-tsay). On TSW, part of the air played
by Davy himself seems to be a faster version of "Antice" main theme, so I
think your second supposition is the right one.

Ciao.
Rolando.