Dulaman
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  • The honors choir at my school just performed this song and I resign myself to the fact that they don't breathe... It's harder than it sounds, and it sounds HARD.

    But all in all, our performance went pretty well :)

  • fabulous !

  • Doing this for choir :)

  • gaelic seaweed!

  • 1:07

    Just Epic

  • Nuthin sexier than a guy who can sing classical :D

    Seaweed from the yellow cliff,

    Dulaman from our land,

    Seaweed from beneath the sea,

    The best in all of Ireland

  • I'm a Tenor, but Eric Alatorre is my hero! lol

  • Oh my word, I need this soloist in my life, like as a husband or something lol...  I love you guys <3

  • I love how clean and cut it sounds. good diction, nice cutoffs, nice unity.

  • high five for the guy with the mustache!!

  • This song is about seaweed :D

    We're singing it in choir, it's an amazing peice.

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  • We're doing this song in my choir but we don't go THAT fast. These guys are great though, and once you get into it, it's kinda a fun song. :)

  • I Wish I Could Sing This In My Choir

  • OMG!! Back when Ben Johns and Matthew Oltman were singing!! AMAZING!

  • HOORAY FOR SEAWEED!

  • anywhere i can get sheet music for this?

  • WOW !!

  • this is based off of traditional celtic songs of the seaweed that farmers used to rake up from the sea to fertilize their crops...it is no overstatement to say that their entire existence depended on "dulaman"

  • WHOAAAA this is amazing! so seamlesssssss

  • did anyone know that this song is about different types of seaweed? i never knew that sea life is so intense.

  • ha, look at the guy starting at 1:02 his head jerk thing.

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  • hey it's Ben Johns! great performance!!

  • I did a bit of research on the lyrics: they are singing about seaweed.

  • @ErnestoDC2 Yeah in the metaphorical sense. it's kinda about the whole "which lover should I choose" kind of thing...................... i think

  • how do you even respond after seeing something like that?

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  • do they ever breathe?? gosh!

  • @bwaybaby022 At their level, if you can't get a full breath in an 8th of a second, you won't be able to keep up. Some of it is staggered because it's not in 10 parts. So, they do somewhat cheat, but no, they can hold a ten measure phrase easily.

  • @bwaybaby022 It's called stagger breathing. They'll all take small breaths within different parts of the phrases. (I hope that different come off as sarcastic/jackass-ish..)

  • @LilBeastmaster Nope your good. Its a choir vocab term, a little expansion is ok :D

  • @bwaybaby022 they use circular breathing through their noses

  • @iomega88 That's not possible to do while singing: Circular breathing means you only use the air in your mouth to play your instrument whilst you fill your lungs with air by breathing through your nose. The reason circular breathing is not possible while singing is because you have to blow air past your throat into your mouth to sing. When you circularly breathing, you cut the flow of air into your throat from your mouth. Ergo, impossible to circularly breathe while singing. I wish I was wrong!

  • @bwaybaby022 I've performed this song, under Brandon Brack who used to be in this group.

    You really don't get to breath much at all in this piece. Dx

  • @Goatmon Professor Brack used to be in chanticleer? No way! I'm in one his classes right now and I would of never thought!

  • @fulerguy Heck yeah! He is an excellent conductor, isn't he?

    And by excellent, I mean he works everyone's ass off to make sure we blow the audience away.

    And we certainly did, last fall, when performing this, and a bunch of other tunes we'd been working on for most of the semester.

  • @fulerguy Also, my first semester working with him, I was so not used to all the stress of performance. By the end of our show, last may, I was so tired I could barely stand up. No joke!

    And If you're curious, go ahead and ask him about it!

    Also, tell him Daniel (The big guy with the beard) says hello!

  • @bwaybaby022 They do, it's just a matter of sneaking breaths, and if you listen closely enough you will hear that they do take quick breaths at regular intervals.

  • @bwaybaby022 I believe they use circular breathing (breathing in excess air and storing it in the cheeks, and then using that air to keep your singing going while actually breathing in at the same time.

    I have not done this but I imagine it takes a LOT of practice to do it well.

  • Awesome song, I saw this performed in Carnegie Hall by the Westminster Chapel Choir's Mens Ensemble, and it was amazing.

  • I think this song is so cool. we just started practicing it in my high school chorus

  • I believe that the soloist should have had a lighter, less dense voice, if that makes sense. As a result the rest of the chorus had adopted the same heaviness throughout the piece and it doesn't fit the style of the music.

  • Sorry for my ignorance, but who is the soloist?

  • Awesome piece, awesome group... not a good recording though. I absolutely hate audio limiters.

  • Nonsense.

    The soloist is fabulous.

  • @RLSBRAUN I thought his tone was too dark, something about the key that they are in seems off, almost if he's making them go flat. I prefer the album version, in which Matt Oltman sings a much more pleasing and light solo. Not to say that this soloist is terrible, I just think the other solo is more favorable.

  • Chanticleer is amazing, yet I think the soloist should have been a different person. His interpretation was abnormal.

  • @ricancapoeirista I agree, it's hard to describe why I don't like the solo, it just sounds too heavy as compared to other videos

  • hey dylan!!!!! it yur cousin jack

  • Absolute best copy on You Tube!!

  • Know it's just I speak the language.

  • I'm doing the solo for this with my college guys group, which can only hope to be half as good as this, and I swear Gaelic is such a confusing language.  Awesome piece though!!!

  • Its not its one of the easiest languages in the world.

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  • Confusing? You think? Lol.

  • Chanticleer is the choir of gods

    they can sing fuckin soprano with their counter tenors nd sing lower than most basses

  • Nice enunciation of the words. Could have been a little more powerful I think. Maybe the concert hall kinda deadens the sound. Its such an epic song, which is hilarious being how its about sea weed.

  • look at that 'stach at 1:06

  • that guy is a bass who is the only original member of the group left. he grew it on a dare.

  • Almost, but not quite. I think he joined in 1990 or 1991, and Chanticleer has been around since 1978.

  • oh. well either way he's a man lol.

  • I sang Dulaman (solo) with a french choir (Mikrokosmos Loïc Pierre) and gaelic is so hard for a frenchy like me!!!!!!

    but the masters are this men!!!

  • What's the name of the soloist?

  • i like anuna's interpretation. this sounds so heavy and dragging.

  • how is this heavy and dragging? it sounds quite energetic to me!

  • I thought this Dulaman was the one by Meav from celtic Woman but this one is VERY good Too

  • I love watching their facial expressions its totally killer. I had some guys sing this in front of me the other day and it was so awesome. I love this song now. Haha

  • The reason i love this song is because of the soloist first off, but secondly because of the dynamic contrast

  • all version of dulaman are wonderful

  • Maravilhoso, parabéns!

  • YAY BEN!!!!

  • I enjoyed it, but to me it was done way too quickly. First time I heard this song was by celtic woman, which I loved that version.

  • This gives me goosebumps! they sound excellente! Go ya'll, especially the bases!! lol

  • good old dulaman - great man

  • I love this song! ^_^

    I only wish it were longer, so there would be more of its awesomeness to listen to...

  • Anúna really performs Dúlamán better. I LOVE Chanticleer, but this performance is too classical for the piece. It's REALLY nicely done, but I prefer the lighter sounds of McGlynn's group for this. Glad it brought some attention to the composer though!

  • Thames Valley and District School Board in London, Ontario, Canada had all the guys in choirs in secondary school perform this song, it was hard but a rewarding song.

  • We sang this for chorus- Starrs Mill High School in GA. Chanticleer actually came to our school and held a workshop with us and some other nearby schools. It was AWESOME!!!

  • Ya lolz we were there Sandy Creek High... it was Awesometastic!!

  • Dude, MLK sounded great! you guys did a fantastic job with the songs you sang!

  • why thank you!!! ill tell eveyone!! what choir were you with???

  • I'm in the Starr's Mill men's chorus. I just recently put up the videos I got of chanticleer singing, so you should check them out!

  • you guys sang dulaman right??? THAT WAS AWESOME!! on the bus ride back to school.... we were talking about it!!! AGAIN IT WAS AWESOME!!

  • thanks

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  • the guys in our choir sang this

  • This is EPIC.

  • These lads are amazing!! I only know of all of the Irish songs within my knowledge from Celtic Woman and as amazing and epic as they make it sound it sound, I'm glad I listen to the originals they're just as good too :)

  • anyone know where i can get a good quality Mp3 of this song?

  • This song is in their album "Wondrous Love".

  • i had to do this song with my spectrum group it was fun.chanticleer as always made this song amazing

  • stop criticizing... lol chanticleer is amazing, and this is one of the most rigorous pieces i have ever heard performed. Also keep in mind that these men are Lithuanian, not American

  • who's Lithuanian?! not Chanticleer, dude... they're American. San Francisco based. but irrelevant--they're great.

  • 1:22. Love that guy's expression. SO funny.

  • uuum corruption of a wonderful gaeilge song...i love chanticleer btw...they sing as though it were latin...

  • It's Not Gaeilge, It's Gaelic. Irish Gaelic.

  • actually.... Gaelic is a broad term describing ANY of the languages that make up gaelic.... Gaeilge is the Irish language where as Manx is the language from the isle of Man. scotts gaelic is known as Gaidhlig. Irish and scottish gaelic are very similar however gaeilge tends to be more fluid sounding where gaidhlig tends to be harsher and more gutteral.. also the Fadahs over vowels (the little opostrophe looking thingys that denote a LONG vowel sound) face right in irish and left in scotts.

  • i just saw their concert. theyre really nice. i got their autographs too.

  • hahaahhhah 1:06, the guy with the moustache.

    but anyways.. not the best version but still very impressive. good job. :)

  • im going to go to their concert January 24, with my choir. im only in high school and i love their singing.

  • They were in our city, this guys are awesome

    i talked to them personally.

  • they are such a great group, and don't get me wrong i love the song (mostly be cause it's in curfa)but I find it quite halarious that they are singing about Irish seaweed! :D

  • Chanticleer is amazing i got to do a Master Class with them! not only are they beastly singers they are great teachers as well!

  • They are singing 'bout seaweed so you can put this stupid question on youtube ...omg

  • not as good as anuna's but this is good

  • im goin to see these guys in nov., they are coming to arkansas so im goin, always wanted to see u guys...ur great...

  • Haha sexy ;) we're singing this song at my choir =D

  • This guys are amazing.

  • erm its gaelige not gaelic:-)

    Ta said ag canadh as gaelige:-)

    Gaelic does not really frefer to a language in Ireland rather to gaelic culture and we only say gaelic if we are speaking in English gaelic culture often refers to other countires too such as scotland:-)

    Our language in Ireland is gaelige obviuosly most people speak english in some parts though they still grow up speaking gealige as a first language they are called gaelgoirs:-)

    i think this sounds great!!

  • "erm its gaelige not gaelic:-)"

    Only if you're willing to say that the people in Berlin speak Deutsch.

    This is actually a pet peeve of mine. Our society makes a big deal about "Bejing" instead of Peiking and newscasters have to say South American cities with the correct Spanish pronounciation but we don't make a fuss about European names. There is no city in Russia called "Moscow." There's no city in Austria call Vienna. Heck, we've butchered the name of nearly every city in Italy.

  • It Is Gaelic. I Have To Sing The Same Exact Song For School. And I'm 98% Irish.

  • 98% Irish? How did you figure that out?

  • it's plausible that (s)he did 7 generations worth of genealogical research and found out that one of his/her great-great-great-great grandparents wasn't Irish... that'd account for 1.5625% of his/her ethnicity. Then, maybe (s)he rounded for the sake of this post.

    I wonder which side of the family capitalizes every word in a sentence? :-P I'd guess the 1.5625% might be German, but that'd only account for the nouns. Who capitalizes verbs anyway?!

  • For school?!?

    Dude, what grade are you in!?!

  • I saw them do this in concert and it was amazing! There performances always are!

  • I love how every single recording of Dulaman sounds different because of how people pronounce the Gaelic.

  • There Speaking Galic

  • They're singing in Gaelic...

  • I like a good male choral version of anything. I love Anúna's, Celtic Woman's, Clannad's, and Chanticleer's rendition of this song. Perfect performance. Great Job All

  • Cantus' version is also really excellent.

  • it looks like a good challenge. my bro wants to sing this with our school choir. i enjoyed it though.

  • I've sang this piece before, its not easy at all! Especially getting your mouth around all those words lol. A great performance!

  • you're on crack

  • seriously?!, wow that version is soooo boring compared to this. you try singing this and you will understand that it is hard but fun and addicting. i sing for the Maryland State Boychoir and my Changed Voice Choir sings this and we love it hopefully there will be a video of us on here singing this to prove you wrong =]

  • Wow you have to give anyone credit who even trys to sing that fast.

  • Anuna's version is better.

  • depends on what you like

  • this is awe- some

  • Hmmm. I think I enjoy the recorded version much better, the soloist or whatever sounds a bit off, wavery, unsure, so I don't like it as much.  And it feels really really rushed! I like how the recording is bit more lulling.

  • i think it's just the venue's acoustics

  • Wow... There are so many different members than the last time I saw them.... And that was only 3 years ago... jeezy.

  • I don't recognize anybody except Eric...

  • aaaaand the verses are wrong. some of it's just pronounciation that's wrong, but some of it is just wrong. lol.

  • that's not to say they're not good, they're great, just i don't think they're the best ever...

  • erm, sorry to laugh, and maybe i'm just being ignorant but is there any chance you might mean top male a cappella group? :P

    *giggle*

    and if that's what you do mean, then i'm afraid i disagree

  • I only know the slow way. This is COOL!

  • I began listening to Clannad about 1980. It really wasn't until the early 1990's did the world got their hello to Irish singers. Singers like this have left me stunned at the beauty that emanates from the soul. It's as if our little girl through centuries of oppression has finally begun to sing!!! From an Irish American.

  • i sang this song in high school choir, tenth grade. it was almost the same. cool song.

    (.)(.) >

    |____|

  • they're not the only full time choir in the world! (: they are effing amazing though!

  • I saw these guys perform at NDSU the other night and it was nothing short of amazing. They ended with two spirituals that made me cry.

  • I saw them at NDSU too!

    It was so amazing. I can't even think of words to describe it correctly, lol.

  • the fact that they can even speak gaelic is amazing. Even if they sang like poo-diddly, the fact that they pronounced the words is awesome!!

  • i saw them perform this last night at bass hall and it was amazing!!!

  • i was there at bass hall too!

    they were awesome.

  • i personally have just fallen in love with this song. we are singing this song in my acapella choir and its like uber awesome so great post =D

  • sang it loved it

  • Great job!

  • superb job!

  • i had the chance to hang out with these guys in switzerland this past sumer. all super sweet and talented.

  • Why? Every Irish band or almost every Irish band sings it and I have at leased 4 versions of it. One by Clannad and one by Altan and Anuna and Celtic Woman. I call it common because everyone sings Dulaman. Dulaman means seaweed right? And men sung it more than women years ago right? I only said this because I heard it over and over. The music might have been written by you but are the words? Correct me please I beg you, I like getting my facts straight. Thanks, (I also like to be polite.)

  • Sorry - this isn't Michael writing this comment, I just look after the youtube account and the odd time Michael types a comment from his own computer. All I can say is that the text is traditional. This melody is by Michael. Chanticleer are great, and sang this first in around 1996. Anuna are big fans.

  • This is amazing. I'm definitely looking forwards to singing this in our school's mens octet :)

  • You guys are really good! Like Anuna!!!

  • Chanticleer is the United States Top mens vocal group. They are, i believe, the only full time, professional group of their kind in the country.

  • This is not Anuna and Michael McGlynn never wrote Dulaman. It is a common Irish song. This is a good song sung by whoever I never seen them before.

  • Great comment, so confident and so inaccurate.

  • That really is a tough solo to keep on pitch -- so fast and full of consonants!

    Great job, Chanticleer. I'm a fan :)

  • Wow this is wonderful. It gave me chills. They're fantastic.

  • Chanticleer is amazing

    i listen to them every day when i get home

    it really helps me with choir

    we're doing this song next year

  • does anybody know who the soloist was?

  • Mark Sullivan Baritone.

  • I get to go to a master class with these guys this year they're comin to my high school.

  • I sang the solo part for this piece in my university choir this year. It was fun.

  • i saw them last night... different guys... but they are INCREDIBLE. probably the best singers in the world...the men were singing better soprano than any woman ever could.

  • I saw them sometime earlier this year. They are ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!

  • Really? No woman could ever sing as well as them? That's a closed little mind you've got there. Emphasis on the little.

  • I dunno, I've heard my fair share of female sopranos and altos, and I have to say, I prefer the sound of male counters and sopranists. Just a personal preference, though.

  • it actually varies i think. some songs sound better with male sopranists than with female ones but others do not. i think it would be interesting if a woman ever became a bass lol.

  • I have no problem with a personal preference. Just blunt assertion.

  • wow

    this song is awesome. my choir is singing this and i listen to this all the time.

    wow

    truly amazing

    and by the way, it is Gaelic. And, unfortunately, its about seaweed. I know its sorta anticlimactic, but yes, its about seaweed.

  • The Seaweed is a metaphor. Most "Gaelic" aka Irish songs are written in Metaphor.

  • That sounds great! I didn't know Joseph Stalin could even sing!

  • He is a man of many talents. Genocide in the morning, a little light opera in the afternoon. I don't know how he found the time.