1. Nonstop Fun For Those Who Love Music With a Soul
After a weekend movie review, we were amazed to hear some great music. Immediately, we ran out to buy the soundtrack and couldn't stop listening. The music has a soul. It lives and breathes within the listener. Like a well-made movie, the more you listen to the sound track the more you get out of it. I challenge anyone who listens to this music to try and sit still. This music makes you move, smile, and just feel really good. For those of you who have a significant other, this sound track will make you grab them and start uncontrollably dancing. If you don't dance with them, I guarantee that they'll be smiling as they watch you start moving to the beat. All in all. If you never heard this sound track, then I recommend that you make it your next music purchase. This is a great new addition if you don't have it, and an ever better gift for those who love great music. 

2. A Must-Have
Well, do you want to feel sex without making it? Do you want to hear good music? Well, so you can do both things just hearing this soundtrack. If you haven't seen this movie (Alan Parker's The Commitments) you must see and I bet you will love the songs. For me "Destination Anywhere" is just one of the best ever made. And if you listen to this CD you will want to travel (in any way) just to hear this music feeling the strange sensation of wanting to arrive somewhere without knowing exactly where you want to arrive. Buy this CD, it's just wonderful... 

3. Great Soundtrack for a Great Film
Man I love this music! White Irish guys singing soul -- who knew it would work so well? If you like the stylings of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, and Wilson Pickett, you've gotta pick this CD up. There's a lot of passion in these renditions of "Mustang Sally", "I can't Stand the Rain", and, my personal favorite, "Try A Little Tenderness". These covers take nothing away from their originals -- they're amazing. I like to sing along to them, and imagine myself as an Irish rocker. DEFINITELY pick this one up. Oh, and definitely see the movie as well, if you haven't already.

"Uillean piper Todd Denman and B-3 player Eamonn Flynn are mirror images: Todd an American who grew up with funk and R&B and mastered traditional Irish piping, Eamonn an Irish who grew up with trad Irish music and later mastered funk and R&B Hammond. Soulstice is an unlikely fusion of R&B, gospel and Irish music that sounds so natural and obvious it makes you wonder where this music has been all this time. Denman and Flynn have sensitively and ingeniously reharmonized a host of trad Irish favorites, with hauntingly affecting results. I can't describe how strongly (or why) it feels like home to me. Even if it doesn't affect you the same way, it's delightful and worthy of your attention."

"The Irish word 'aniar' translates as 'west,' which explains the name of the new quartet assembled by veteran San Francisco uilleann piper Todd Denman. Soulstice, by Todd Denman & Aniar, has a rich and creative fusion sound.  Centered around Denman's vibrant piping and Tina Lech's nimble fiddle, this mostly instrumental disc also introduces the Hammond B-3 organ to a role in traditional music at the hands of Dublin native Eamonn Flynn, adding clever touches of 1960s Motown soul sound. Guitar whiz Flynn Cohen rounds out the group. The material is mostly pulsating, uptempo medleys of jigs and reels, while the title track is a moody, improvisational slow air with pipes and organ sharing resonant lead
- Dirty Linen 

"Eamonn's delightful energy, mercurial shifts of mood, and sensitivity to his musical surroundings whisks this band into the 21st Century. ...It's just that he is so good about being his own R&B self that he never seems out of place - even backing up jigs and reels... He's a genius." 
- Iris na bPiobairi 

"Words just can't capture the way Aniar wraps your kick-butt trad trio in rhythm and blues keyboard riffs without anything seeming out of place." 
- Iris na bPiobairi 

"Dublin-born Eamonn Flynn was the keyboardist for The Commitments in a movie of the same name. His work on piano and organ provides a brilliant juxtaposition of old and new as he blends seamlessly with the traditional pipes/fiddle/guitar of his band mates." 
- Notes, from Celtic Airs