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krj
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response 156 of 226:
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Aug 29 17:38 UTC 2000 |
So far, no answer to albaugh's question. Might be a good query to
take to rec.music.celtic, which has a much wider audience than Grex.
I can relay the query if you don't mess with Usenet News.
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This week's paper mail includes a mailout from Battlefield Band.
Davy Steele, the band's most recent guitarist/singer, has left
due to his brain tumor. This is very sad; Steele is recently married
to Poozies/Sileas harper Patsy Seddon, and they have a small child.
For the US tour at least, Battlefield have brought in Karine Polwart.
Karine is the lead singer from Malinky, a band who are getting incredibly
favorable press, and she also sings in a duo called Macalias whose
work I have not heard. This is only the second time in their long
career that Battlefield have brought in a woman singer, and I'd love
to hear this lineup -- and there are no shows in Michigan on this tour.
Argh. Mickey might get a chance to hear them in Texas.
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Some of you might recall the Breton folk rock band Gwenc'hlan,
who I've been quite happy about since discovering their first album
in May. French CD dealer http://www.alapage.com has finally stocked
their second release, so I should have it in a couple of weeks.
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micklpkl
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response 157 of 226:
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Aug 29 18:37 UTC 2000 |
Re: #156 ... Thanks for the heads-up on the Battlefield Band news, Ken. I had
heard about Davy Steele's illness -- tragic --- but didn't realize that they
were adding a female singer. Alas, when I checked the schedule I saw that
they'll be playing in Austin two days after I leave town for vacation. Argh,
is right.
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albaugh
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response 158 of 226:
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Sep 1 13:57 UTC 2000 |
Yep, if you're willing, ask rec.music.celtic what a 3/2 reel is called!
BTW, the group playing it is Tannehill Weavers.
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krj
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response 159 of 226:
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Sep 2 04:08 UTC 2000 |
maeve is back from Edinburgh, at least for a little while. A snippet
of party chat...
maeve: I'm in ann arbor currently
krj: what brings you back from Scotland?
maeve: er, threats of personal violence
krj: btw, have you heard Malinky (a band)
maeve: I know two or three members of Malinky
krj: wow! I like them. Was going out to buy Karine Polwart's other
album tonight.
<maeve feels well-connected>
krj: who else is new and good?
maeve: erm..Cantrip is good, but I don't know if they have a cd out...Host
of the Air is good if you like scottish country dance music...
(shameless plugs the both of them)
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orinoco
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response 160 of 226:
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Sep 8 16:07 UTC 2000 |
In a baroque dance suite (in which many of the forms are borrowed from folk
dance), a 3/2 piece would probably be a pavanne. If I remember right. Ask
me again in a few weeks once I've started music history.
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albaugh
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response 161 of 226:
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Sep 13 20:51 UTC 2000 |
Just think "fast reel with instruments flailing wildly", with 3 beats in a
measure. :-)
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darkwolf
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response 162 of 226:
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Sep 13 23:09 UTC 2000 |
music history uggh...
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krj
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response 163 of 226:
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Sep 15 03:29 UTC 2000 |
((hi darkwolf, welcome to Grex!))
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darkwolf
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response 164 of 226:
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Sep 15 04:51 UTC 2000 |
Actually I've been on Grex for a while never really spoke up till I left ann
arbor. Grex has become my Ann Arbor fix as it may bee
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tpryan
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response 165 of 226:
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Sep 15 16:11 UTC 2000 |
The Michigan Ren Fest has 'The Emerald Isle' as their theme for
this weekend (9/16,17/2000).
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krj
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response 166 of 226:
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Sep 18 03:21 UTC 2000 |
...so after I drop Twila off after today's festival trip, I turn on
the car radio for The Thistle and Shamrock, and Fiona Ritchie is
playing a track from the Kornog reunion album. Wow!
Someone had mentioned a "new" Kornog album on rec.music.celtic
and I had been sure that they were mistaken. But amazon.com
is taking orders for it, the Herschel Freeman Agency is booking
a fall tour for them, and someplace in the Southwest has them in
concert in late October, all according to web pages.
For many of us, Kornog's mid-80s albums were our introduction to
Breton music.
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micklpkl
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response 167 of 226:
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Sep 18 15:06 UTC 2000 |
re: #166 - Kornog will be playing a benefit for the Austin (Tex.) Celtic
Festival on 26 October. I hope to be there. Here's an URL for those interested
in a short bio:
http://www.io.com/~rarii/TCMN/NewsArticles/Kornog.html
In other news, I noticed that one of my most favourite artists, Susan McKeown,
is due out with a new CD one week from this Tuesday (26 Sept). This one is
mostly traditional songs, and it's called "Lowlands" You can find lots of
useful tidbits here:
http://house-of-music.com/susan/lowlands.shtml
Be sure to check out the link to Susan's personal comments about the songs,
lyrics, musicians, and more.
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krj
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response 168 of 226:
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Sep 19 06:37 UTC 2000 |
The Kornog tour schedule went up on the Herschel Freeman Agency website.
Looks like the closest they get to Ann Arbor is going to be Mt. Pleasant.
We went to CMU to see them in the 1980s, I suppose we can do it again;
of course back then I lived in Lansing, not Ann Arbor. :P
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krj
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response 169 of 226:
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Dec 3 06:20 UTC 2000 |
We're just catching the end of a public television show featuring a
band called Barrage, a seven fiddle band which seems to be largely
inspired by Riverdance. The show airs on Detroit public TV on Sunday
at 8 pm. "Barrage: the World On Stage."
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dbratman
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response 170 of 226:
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Dec 30 17:14 UTC 2000 |
For fans of what I like to call the "Big Celtic Sound", I've been
listening to the new Enya album, "A Day Without Rain". (Samples are at
the official Enya site, www.enya.com.)
I have to admit I was a little nervous about this one. Donald Keller's
Four-Album Theory says (to summarize it badly) that pop artists have
four good albums in them, after which they start going downhill, and
that the downturn usually comes after a Best Of album. Well, Enya had
released four albums and a Best Of, and this is the first one since
then. So how is it?
For die-hard Enya fans like me, it's more of the same good stuff. For
those only moderately fond of her music, it may well be a
disappointment. This is the first album in which she breaks no new
ground. Everything sounds like what she's done before, even the
highlights. This is the third new album in a row with a hauntingly
beautiful slow waltz that would be sublime to dance to (I should know,
as waltzing to "Caribbean Blue" was the finest dancing experience of my
life). This one is called "Wild Child". The other highlight in 3/4
time, "Flora's Secret", is a compendium of Enya's favorite musical
tricks: the pizzicato trick, the snare trick, the pseudo-ritard trick,
etc. It works if you're succeptible to them.
There is one song in Latin, and one in Gaelic, and apart from the
latter there's virtually no remaining evidence to suggest to the
newcomer that Enya started out as an Irish folk musician. She is now
pure MOR pop, but - as I can say with some authority, having had my
childish ears stuffed with 50s and 60s MOR by my parents - very high
quality MOR pop. I'm very happy with my purchase, but I don't think
it's quite time to retire the Four-Album Theory yet.
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happyboy
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response 171 of 226:
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Dec 30 20:50 UTC 2000 |
new age craaap.
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anderyn
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response 172 of 226:
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Dec 31 00:09 UTC 2000 |
Oh I don't know. I like Enya. This album isn't my fave, but it is nice to
have.
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mcnally
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response 173 of 226:
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Dec 31 06:05 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, I don't know that I'd agree with #171 either -- I'd want to save a
label like that for something truly awful, like Tesh or Yanni..
I haven't heard the latst Enya album (or the one before that, or even,
possibly, the one before that..) but I'm pretty willing to believe that
it's exactly what David says it is -- extremely polished, meticulously
crafted, completely calculated, appealing-to-those-who-like-that-sort-
of-thing MOR pop. And what's wrong with that?
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happyboy
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response 174 of 226:
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Dec 31 15:06 UTC 2000 |
she's the irish equivalent of kenny g.
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eeyore
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response 175 of 226:
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Dec 31 15:09 UTC 2000 |
Yeah...much as I really love a lot of the Irish stuff, the computer generated
music just sits all wrong on my nerves...kinda makes me cringe.
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happyboy
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response 176 of 226:
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Dec 31 20:31 UTC 2000 |
i'm down with the acoustic stuff.
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mcnally
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response 177 of 226:
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Jan 1 04:04 UTC 2001 |
re #174: are you sure you're not thinking of Clannad? :-p
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happyboy
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response 178 of 226:
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Jan 1 17:37 UTC 2001 |
enya's sister is WAY better, maaaan.
just fuckin' back off!
;)
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krj
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response 179 of 226:
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Jan 1 20:53 UTC 2001 |
Note for David Bratman: did you ever pick up on the reissue of Clannad's
first album? My recollection is that someone had to remaster it from a
vinyl copy because Philips had lost the master tapes.
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dbratman
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response 180 of 226:
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Jan 3 21:16 UTC 2001 |
Anyone who dislikes Enya is not going to get an argument from me, even
though I do like her. But as Mike observes, there's a huge difference
between Enya and Tesh or Yanni. They are mushy; she is not.
Happyboy: Yes, Maire is a better singer than Enya. But her band is no
longer better. Clannad, too, turned to mush, and were only good when
they were obscure - the purest example of selling out that I know of in
music. ("Selling out" means not just "becoming famous", but losing
whatever made your fame justified in the process.)
Ken: I have a couple early Clannad albums on CD, including "Dulaman"
which was my introduction to the band. The transfer quality on that
one did not strike me as good. But I don't think I have the first
album. My favorite, I recall, was no. 2, which I don't think I've ever
seen on CD.
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