Celtic Warrior Music: Bio

Johnny Langford, Founder of The Undefeated - Founder of Celtic Warrior Music

WILD SPIRIT
The original tracks on this album were "born out of the spirit and actions of protest". These songs drew their inspiration from direct experiences and actions of the author - Johnny Langford, who is passionate about our precious environment along with a love for Australia’s beautiful indigenous people and their turbulent history. The 1st track Aborigine (& track 14, full version) portrays Johnny & the band's feelings for the aborigines’ plight;
Track 3 Option Green is a song for saving our forests;
Track 11 The Mobile Phone Song is a reflection on telecommunication companies’ arrogance in just blazing ahead with greed, and ignorance of the possible dangers of adding to the world's radioactively saturated environment;
while Track 9 is a lament for the late Princess of Wales, a beautiful lady who achieved amongst other things the abolition of land mines with the Geneva convention.

This CD "Wild Spirit" by Johnny Langford and the Undefeated, which is also “The Undefeated’s” 1st album, is a mix of 50% original and 50% Celtic material. All of the traditional tracks and Celtic ballads have a cool mix of a contemporary feel which enhances this album beautifully due to the unique drumming of guest artist Tunji Bier and the passionate gypsy style violin and mandolin artistry by guest musician, Shenton Gregory (Shenzo).

The style of the original songs is unique: a blend between world folk and folk rock. The Celtic songs and tunes have an Australian contemporary feel. The musicians energies straight away captured the feeling of the author / arranger’s work. As an album, the recording engineer Lenny Slaughter of Laughter Audio helped to create the original atmosphere while mixer Stephen Hamacek of frontEar Sound, helped to merge both studios mastery of recording techniques and both have created an overall feeling that is entransive.

The range of instruments is impressive and performed by the following artists:

John Langford: acoustic guitar and lead vocal
Paul Clement: acoustic and electric guitar
Shenton Gregory: violin and mandolin
Tunji Bier: djembe, Persian talking drums
Brett Newman: drummer
Lenny Slaughter: bass guitar
Stephen Hamacek: keyboards, synthesiser, flute, accordian, backing harmony
Kit Cotter: keyboards, guitar, backing harmony
Elizabeth Dawson: flute, recorder, bodhran
David Russell: Celtic flute and tin whistle
Natalie Richy: djembe
Mal Settree: djembe, clap sticks, didgeridoo.
Backing vocals: Anne Gilpin and Terry Fitzgerald

Celtic Warriors - A hot Irish band from the Republic of Ireland

Check out the greatest band since the WOLFTONES!!

This band has it all ... and more! From ripping jigs & reels with spoons, banjos, bodhran and guitar, to vocals and harmonies on the most sensitive of ballads and through to the most hardcore rebel music that anyone has ever heard. All of this live music, performed with only the power and passion that this band can deliver! Celtic Warriors will get you singing and dancing along to all of Ireland's favourite songs and tunes with the occasional world song of freedom. In fact this band is all about freedom and this band's first hand experiences will vouch for that. In a similar way that cruelty and slavery gave birth to the blues, then one can say that the same treatment to the Irish from colonial tyrants gave birth to this music.

Hi folks. Activism is the primary message behind the music on our independent label. Activism which we hope will help to change the mess that this world is currently in. Whether this activism ranges from Australian Aborigines' human rights through to saving our planet's precious land, sea and air from further degradation, rape and pillage, the choices for us to save ourselves are many. There is an old American Indian proverb, "When the last tree is cut down, when the last stream or river has been poisoned, will man then, still be able to eat his gold!"

We hope that you enjoy the artist's who are on our label. These artists currently reside in Australia, Ireland and Thailand. We record our artists in many studio locations around the world as well as live recordings at gigs where we mix the music LIVE. The mixing and mastering is completed in Australia to the highest playback standard.

We are sure that you will find, as we do, that the artists are passionate about the issues covered in the music we present.