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Purchase Irish Myths/Legends CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Loreena McKennitt Visit CD (1991) Remastered
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With her piercing vocals and sensual, exotic sound, Loreena McKennitt has single-handedly made tangible the passions of Celtic and pagan life for her large, devoted audience. Her fourth release, THE VISIT, was her breakthrough, a satisfying mixture of original compositions and adaptations. "The Lady of Shalott" is an 11-minute rendition of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, while McKennitt archly notes that she sings the subdued "Greensleeves" in her best Tom Waits impersonation.
Brian Hughes (acoustic & electric guitar, balalaika); George Koller (fiddle, sitar, cello, tamboura, bass); Hugh ...
| | Loreena McKennitt A Mediterranean Odyssey CDs (2009)
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Loreena McKennitt's A MEDITERRANEAN ODYSSEY collection includes an 11-track anthology of her more Mediterranean-influenced works entitled OLIVE AND THE CEDAR, as well as a ten-track live performance recorded in 2009 called FROM ISTANBUL TO ATHENS. McKennitt's transition from Celtic balladeer to worldbeat superstar began in the early '90s with the genre-hopping VISIT. Her penchant for Mediterranean/Far East/Middle Eastern instrumentation came to fruition on 1994's MASK AND MIRROR and 1997's BOOK OF SECRETS, the ...
| | Enya Day Without Rain CD (2000)
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A DAY WITHOUT RAIN won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Celtic songbird Enya is nothing if not consistent--A DAY WITHOUT RAIN won't disappoint anyone who was entranced by her first major hit "Orinoco Flow." The same blend of adult-contemporary pop, Celtic overtones, and peaceful, new age-derived ambience fills these ...
| | Scots Guards Pipes Amazing Grace CD (1992) RCA
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| | Celtic Thunder Take Me Home CD (2009)
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The Celtic Thunder road show is a multigenerational extravaganza of Irish-flavored pop music designed to melt hearts. Their third album, culled from their 2009 show, focuses mainly on pop standbys like "Every Breath You Take" and "Wichita Lineman." While the uninitiated may not even suspect that the act is Irish, an emerald glint shines off the folkier numbers like "The Green Fields Of France" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 ...
| | Corrs Forgiven, Not Forgotten CD (1996)
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All songs written by The Corrs except "Someday" (D. Foster/The Corrs).
Released on the heels of the Corrs' tour with Celine Dion and their appearance at the Olympic Games, 1995's FORGIVEN, NOT FORGOTTEN blends wistful Celtic motifs, slick production, layered harmonies, and adult-contemporary songcraft into a sound that won the Irish group instant international favor. The siblings' real achievement here is their balance of moody Top 40 melodies with traditional Celtic elements--Andrea, Caroline, and Sharon Corr play tin whistle, bodhran, and violin, respectively.
Though "Erin Shore (Traditional Intro)," the album's instrumental opener, sounds like an old-school Irish ballad, the song quickly segues into the pulsing title track--a dramatic, minor-key pop tune with a chorus fleshed out by the lovely harmonies of the Corr sisters. The group's Celtic roots are evident in quick, melodic phrases throughout, and on the occasional instrumental (the bodhran-driven "Carraroe Jig"), but the Corrs go better with MTV than a glass of Guinness, as the bright, hook-driven rock of "Someday" or the power ballad "Closer" ...
| | Silly Wizard Kiss The Tears Away CD (1983)
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| | Laurie Anderson Mister Heartbreak CD (1984)
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A textured and kaleidoscopic bag of surprises by this supremely innovative musician and performance artist, Mister Heartbreak is a distinctively appealing release. Employing her Synclavier and the help of guest musicians (who include, among others, Peter Gabriel, William Burroughs, Adrian Belew, Phoebe Snow and Nile Rogers), Anderson's songs project thrilling, exotic environments through which sonic effects and fragments of poetic narrative float like ghosts.
At once uber-technological and organic (one envisions a cyborg wandering through a rainforest), ...
| | Cherish The Ladies Back Door CD (1992)
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| | Air Mail Music: Ireland CD (1998) (Import) France
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| | Skoop On Somebody Still CD (2001)
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| | Dubliners Transatlantic Anthology CDs (2002)
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| | C-Bo C-Section (Revisited) CD (2007) Parental Advisory
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| | Porterhouse Vol.2 CDs (2007) (Import) Australia
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$21.99
Steve Porter doubles the action and the fun for his Porterhouse, Vol. 2 mix set, which doesn't so much follow up the first volume as take it to a whole new level. Spinning out 57 songs over two CDs, for a mind-blowing 150-plus minutes, Porter once again showcases his skills, his own originals and remixes, the talents of his longtime collaborators, and a plethora of rising stars. Fans will have already worked that out from the track listing -- what that won't tell you is just how incredibly entertaining this set is, the closest the DJ's come to capturing his live shows. Fun is at the core of this compilation. Porter obviously had a phenomenal time putting this set together, and that bleeds through every track and every beat within. You can actually feel the love he has for his job here and the joy he feels for the music, along with a deep desire to share it with the world. If this isn't nirvana, who knows what is. Fabulous rhythms power this set and, as expected from Porter, the energy never flags for a second, but as essential as the beats are, it's the melodies that still reign supreme, pouring forth from the speakers, gently shifting as the tracks subtly change over, transforming and transmuting seamlessly before your ears. Play a few seconds of each track, and it's obvious how distinct they are, but within the context of the set, they're seamlessly bound together, so much so that after a few plays your mind will inevitably segue into the next track whenever you hear the song. As always, Porter's signature style is to the fore, a stellar, eclectic mix of hard house and propulsive trance, funk, and electro that just keeps getting better with time. At Porterhouse the ...
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