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Welcome to the new Gilles Rullmann online store! Here you can listen to a few samples and order cd's. You can add cd's to your shopping cart and then proceed to pay with your credit card or paypal-account.

NB customers from within the Netherlands who wish to order cd's but do not want to pay with a credit-card or paypal account: you can order within the Netherlands by transferring €17,50 (Maalstroom & Jo Freya 'meet') or €15 (all other cds) + €2.50 package/posting (per cd) into accountnumber 6153950 (Postbank), Gilles Rullmann, Spionkopstraat 47, 2021 TJ Haarlem. List the name(s) of the cd(s) you want to order, and the name and address to which the order should be sent. Please also send an email to info@gillesrullmann.com listing the name of the cd and the name and address to which you order should be shipped.

CD Maalstroom & Jo Freya - 'meet' 17,50 euros

Released in autumn 2010, Maalstroom & Jo Freya present the result of their fruitful collaboration: 'meet'. Five terrific musicians - all composers of exquisite, original music - one tight band, sparkling with enjoyment. Inventive harmony vocals, reed-instrument duets and sophisticated arrangements of new and traditional material!

Tracklist 'meet':
1. Musicport
2. Rattling Roof Tiles
3. Everybody has a Tale
4. Thyroid Jig
5. Waltzing up the Stairs
6. Green Grow the Rushes Oh
7. Song for Leon
8. No Better Friends
9. Braw Sailing
10. Gorges du Dailley
11. Closing of the Day

On www.myspace.com/gillesrullmann you can listen to the complete track of Musicport, on www.myspace.com/maalstroomnl you will find Gorges du Dailley and Green Grow the Rushes Oh.

Dutch national newspaper de Volkskrant wrote on the collaboration: 'Just before the finale [of Folkwoods festival 2009] on Sunday the Dutch quartet Maalstroom and Scottish singer and saxophonist Jo Freya produced the most delicate/sophisticated surprise of Folkwoods 2009: wonderfully arranged and sparkingly rendered compositions for reed-instruments (clarinet and sax), fiddle, guitar and percussion. With their mainly self-written work new grounds are covered on the borderline between folk, jazz and classical.'

CD janos & gilles 15,- euros

In the autumn of 2007 janos & gilles released their debut-cd: A new duo with great intensity and swing. In tight sets and free improvisations these talented musicians circle around each other. Firmly rooted in Irish music and Bluegrass, with a fair number of their own compositions and preferably deeply tragic songs they drag the audience along past melancholic views and party moods!

Tracklist 'janos & gilles':
1. Laurel's Reel / Inver Bank / Big Red (click to hear sample)
2. Maid on the Shore
3. Lion's Corner / Tiny Mountaineer / Like Cabbage
4. Sheepskins & Beeswax / Maids of Kilmallock
5. Tall Man's Farewell / Silver Lining
6. Dream Away
7. Paddy Fahy's / Paddy Ryan's Dream / Coast of Austria (click to hear sample)
8. A Sunday in December
9. Chant du Vieillard (click to hear sample)
10. Mélodie au Crépuscule / Your Man / West to Alaska
11. Last Sunset / Extra Bitter
12. My Love is from the North / Big Liza Jane / Boys them Buzzards are Flying (click to hear sample)

Total playing time 61 minutes.

On www.myspace.com/gillesrullmann you can listen to the complete tracks of Laurel's reel and the Maid on the Shore. For more info on janos & gilles click here.

'Fiddle, guitar and mandolin are played both with an infectious drive and with spine-tingling subtlety. It covers widely varying moods, from driving and swinging to touching and melancholic. It always sounds pure and the enjoyment sparks off the interaction between the two.' (from the review on folkforum.nl)
'I will come straight to the point: Janos & Gilles are a class act on their instruments', or shortly: 'great stuff!' (from the review on folkroddels.be)

CD Maalstroom - 'open window' 15,- euros

Maalstroom, a four-piece band from the Netherlands give a whole new twist to Celtic folk music. Their new album was released in January 2008, in the new line-up: Michel Duijves (clarinet, bass-clarinet), Paul Pallesen (guitars, bouzouki), Job Cornelissen (percussion, vocals) and Gilles Rullmann (fiddle, guitar, backing vocals). It contains numerous mainly self-penned tunes and three traditional songs which are given a new coat of paint.

Tracklist Maalstroom - 'open window'
1. Just one window / Way out
2. The spotter / Sven's race
3. Sorrow is a lonesome bluebird
4. Something sweet in the dark / the Travellers jig
5. Edey's polka / the Strathnairn / Backseat polka
6. Cocks are crowing / Reel for Kent
7. Picus
8. Jo & Roger's wedding dance (feat. Isaac Muller on whistle)
9. Gorgeous & bright / the Spinning jig
10. Invasion of Caterpillars / Wild man of the woods
11. Lea

Total playing time 49 mins.

On www.myspace.com/gillesrullmann you can listen to the complete track of Picus.

"With the album Open Window Maalstroom proves it's one of the best folkbands in the Netherlands. With the quality of the band in mind, international success should be within hand's reach." (Assie Aukes on www.folkforum.nl). "It seems like musical influences from all over Europe have floated through the windows in the Schotersingel-house and have been absorbed by the band as a whole". About Gilles, working on, according to Assie, a 'total advance in the Dutch folkscene', he writes: "Gilles Rullmann excellently found his place in the band... He impresses as a composer and as a fiddle player".

CD 'my eyes' 15,- euros

In the Summer of 2002 Gilles' solo-CD 'my eyes' was released, containing catchy Irish jigs and reels, powerful songs, haunting slow airs and tunes from Italy, Israel and France. Click the button above to order 'my eyes'.

From Gilles Rullmann's slieve notes: "People travel and so does music. People are touched and influenced by the music of regions they visit as the music of those regions is shaped by their visitors. The way the energy, joy, sadness and anger expressed by musicians mix with those of their fellow musicians and listeners alike fascinates me. This recording draws from a number of varying backgrounds, regions and traditions. In some of these I've been immersed for a long time, some I've never even visited. They've passed through my eyes and this is what it sounds like - I hope you like it."

Tracklist 'my eyes':
1. Golden Stud / Mason's Apron / Miss Monaghan's / John Stenson's #2 (click to hear sample)
2. Southbound Train
3. Tarantella
4. Dying Hussar
5. Tchavolo Swing
6. Man of Birmingham Town
7. Dancing Bean/ An Bhean Chéile Nár Casadh Dhom (click to hear sample)
8. Hughie Travers / Out with the Boys
9. Your Eyes (click to hear sample)
10. Ahl's Doina (click to hear sample)
11. Maghera Mountain / McGreavey's / P.J. Hernon's

On www.myspace.com/gillesrullmann you can listen to the complete track of the Dancing Bean set.

"Some demo's grow to be a full-blown CD. My eyes is a shining example of that."(New Folk Sounds 84)
"Natural, authentic and down to earth. Music without showiness, but with personality."(OOR 19)

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