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Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group who fuse electronic music with traditional Irish and West African music. Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 by producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and feature a wide range of guest artists.
Their albums have been released through Peter Gabriel's Real World Records, and they have frequently performed at WOMAD festivals worldwide. Their sales on the label are exceeded only by Gabriel himself.[citation needed] Their recording contract with Real World was for five albums, of which Volume 5: Anatomic was the last.
After a number of festival dates in 2007, the band went on hiatus. In 2010, they regrouped to play a number of shows (including a return to WOMAD), releasing a re-mastered retrospective titled Capture.
On 20 May 2014 Afro Celt Sound System announced the upcoming release of a new album, Born. In January 2016, a posting to that website revealed that due to a dispute with Emmerson, who announced his departure from the band in 2015, there were two active versions of the band, a version led by Emmerson and a separate line-up headed by James McNally and Martin Russell. Emmerson's version of the band released the album The Source in 2016.
The dispute ended on December 21, 2016, with an announcement on social media.
Discography
Volume 1: Sound Magic (1996)
Volume 2: Release (1999)
Volume 3: Further in Time (2001)
Seed (2003)
Pod (Remix album) (2004)
Volume 5: Anatomic (2005)
Capture (1995–2010) (2010) (compilation)
'When You're Falling' featuring Peter Gabriel (2012) (Single from Volume 3)
The Source (2016)
They also recorded the soundtrack for the PC game Magic and Mayhem, released in 1998.
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