Irish traditional music group Altan will release their first studio album in six years, Gleann Nimhe, - The Poison Glen. The band has been together for 3O years, and this album is a return to the simpler sound of earlier recordings, after their work with the Concert Orchestra.

Vocalist, fiddler and founding member Mairead Ni Mhaoinaigh says: ‘We went back to the roots of the six members of the band, with only Harry Bradley (flute) and Jim Higgins (percussion) as guests on this one. I also wanted to have the voice more to the fore in terms of the sound, less produced so that we could bring the music into the listener’s room a little more.’