Susan Mckeown - Bushes And Briars (c) 1998 Alula Records
Artist....: Susan Mckeown
Album.....: Bushes And Briars
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 11
Genre.....: Celtic
Label.....: Alula Records
Catalogue#: ALU-1008
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://susanmckeown.com/
Tracklist:
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01 Bushes & Briars 03:59
02 In London So Fair 05:16
03 Seoladh Na Ngamhna (Driving The Calves) 05:08
04 H-O Abha-Inn (Little One) 03:59
05 Bonny Boy 02:31
06 The Mountain Streams Where The Moorcocks Crow 06:12
07 Banks Of Claudy 05:41
08 Craigie Hill 05:35
09 A Mhaire Bhruinneall 02:05
10 Donal Og 05:59
11 After Aughrim 04:57
Total:57,1 MB / 51:22 min
Release Notes:
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Wonderful Celtic Folk
On Bushes & Briars, Susan McKeown brings her eloquent and haunting
voice -- as well as the instrumental talents of a distinguished cast of
supporting musicians -- to bear on a set of traditional Celtic and
British songs. Most of her accompanists are Irish musicians, but the
arrangements are anything but traditional: McKeown sings "In London So
Fair" over a shimmery bed of looped whistles and mandolins; "Bonny Boy"
is delivered a cappella in a controlled voice that hints at an
underlying frenzy of rage and sexual frustration; and her accompaniment
on "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" consists entirely of
tabla, tambura and low whistle -- a truly bizarre instrumentation that
fits so perfectly with her quiet, resigned delivery that you may not
even notice its strangeness. McKeown has taken an ancient repertoire
and made it entirely new and her own, with wonderful results.