Celtica

1. Wake up Happy

2. Tale With No Beginning

3. Crazy About You

4. Peter and Diane

5. Shorelines

6. Hannah

7. Celtic Fiesta

8. My Friend Brent

9. Sun on a Cloudy Day

10. Swinging Down the Path

11. Simple Song

12. Paddy Goes to Heaven

Celtica,Oliver Schroer,Avalon (Rock Bottom),Canada,Celtic/Irish,Int'l & World Music,Pop,Rock/Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: A fine fusion And now for something completely different Makes Me Wish I Played Bagpipes Not bad at all How can a Scottish band play latin music this well?

El Agua De La Vida Salsa Celtica Manufacturer: Compass Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Salsa Celtica: Great Scottish Latin Adventure El Camino Salsa Around the World Loteria de la Cumbia Lounge Putumayo Presents: Latin Groove ASIN: B00009IB1N Release Date: 2003-06-10

Tracks:

1. Cumbia Celtica
2. El Sol De La Noche
3. Guajira Sin Sol
4. Elagua De La Vida
5. Whisky Con Ron
6. Ave Maria De Escocia Medley
7. Maestro
8. Adios Adios
9. Auld Lang Syne

Customer Reviews:

A fine fusion.......2007-07-09

I saw this band perform in the film Driving Lessons. I was so much in love with their music that I went directly home to order the CD from Amazon. I'm not disappointed. What a great idea - to somehow fuse Celtic instrumentation into Latin music. It's an original and natural fit. It's not gimmicky like Paul Simon's African forays, wherein it sounds like he took the vocals off an indigenous recording and added his own. There's a real synthesis here, and it works perfectly.

Salsa Celtica has got the horns, great lead singing and unison background choruses of Latin, as well as the violin and flute of Celtic music. For me that's heaven.

And now for something completely different.......2007-01-04

I heard Salsa Celtica's Auld Lang Syne on December 30th on NPR's Folkways in the car and immediately as it started my wife and I remarked that we had to find the CD. This group is really hard to believe, as they all seem to be white Scots making amazing Latin music. There are parts of it that remind me on Manu Chao, with snippets of Spanish language radio playing in the background. In parts or as a whole this album is happy music, and as one reviewer mentions above, you simply can't help but start to dance. This is a great album and deserving of your ears and there isn't a weak track amongst them. Shop with confidence, I am sure you won't be disappointed.

Makes Me Wish I Played Bagpipes.......2005-05-04

I sought out this album after hearing "Sol de la Noche" as the opening track on Putumayo's compilation album, SALSA AROUND THE WORLD. And there's always a danger when one buys an album based on a single song, but there's nothing disappointing about this album.

This Scottish group is an amazingly talented ensemble, taking salsa traditions and rhythms and infusing them with celtic instruments and traditions. The performances are tight, inventive, and I defy you to listen to this album and not want to dance, even if it's just in your chair.

Their closing rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" is not to be missed. I WILL buy their future albums.

Not bad at all.......2005-05-04

This is one very good cd, for those who like a more Cuban-feel to their salsa. The slow, deliberate pace of most of the tracks is so refreshing, compared to some of the mind-bogglingly quick "salsa" being mass-marketed today. "Sol de la Noche" (which can be found on Putumayo CD "Salsa Around The World") is a great track, which features a nice hint of Scottish sounds, driving a great Cuban beat.

The "Guajira Sin Sol" track is amazing, my personal favorite. This song could play at all the best Latin lounges, it is so smooth and chilling, yet makes you want to jump up and shake your booty.

"Ave María de Escocia Medley" was the third best track, a fun song with great lyrics. Great salsa track, the hardest salsa track on the CD. Great stuff, and you WILL want to dance to this!

The other songs are good, just not as good as those above. The "Cumbia Celtica" track is very innovative, and they actually manage to pull off an authentic Colombian/Scottish feel. These gentlemen are great musicians, and we should be watching them in the future. With just a little more tweaking, they might just be the next top band in Salsa.

How can a Scottish band play latin music this well?.......2003-12-08

Sailing on the west coast of Scotland this summer, we walked into an isolated pub and were blown away to hear the best Latin music this side of Miami! Don't know where these guys came from, but if you can listen to this stuff without getting up and dancing,check to make sure you're still breathing. Fantastic Latin beat!

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El Camino Salsa Celtica Manufacturer: Discos Leon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: El Agua De La Vida Salsa Celtica: Great Scottish Latin Adventure Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set) West ASIN: B000EMSOWA Release Date: 2006-06-28

Average customer rating: Amazing Cuban Scotttish Mix of Salsa & more Hot Salsa

Salsa Celtica: Great Scottish Latin Adventure Various Artists Manufacturer: Greentrax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Celtic | Europe | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Salsa & Merengue | Latin Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: El Agua De La Vida El Camino ASIN: B00004TQO5 Release Date: 2004-02-23

Tracks:

1. Rumba Escocia/Cro Chinn T-Saile
2. El Portabello Malecon
3. Milonga For Iona
4. Yo Mi Voy/Maggie's Pancakes
5. Flaquita
6. Fuerte
7. Vampiras
8. Carnoustie Albatross
9. Leonardo Kapanga
10. Estrellita Celta
11. El Capitan

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Cuban Scotttish Mix of Salsa & more.......2006-03-20

I've seen this band twice live and they are amazing. This CD is a great introduction to their music which beautifully fuses traditional scottish instruments like the bagpipes with cuban rhythmes. You can't sit still.

Hot Salsa.......2001-03-20

This is a very good Salsa album, but any Celtic influences are barely noticable with the exception of a bagpipe lick here and there. Very Cuban in flavor with hot, driving rhythms. (And I know they're not singing in Gaelic.)

Average customer rating: Romantic Masterpieces Awful racket Ignore the other reviews A Relatively Unknown British Composer: Some Thoughtful Insights Have to concur.

John Foulds: Three Mantras Manufacturer: Warner Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: John Foulds: Dynamic Triptych; Music-Pictures III Foulds: String Quartets John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur/My Father Knew Charles Ives Foulds: Piano Music Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs ASIN: B0002VE20G Release Date: 2005-01-25

Tracks:

1. Mantra I (Of Action And Vision Of Terrestrial Avataras) - Impetuoso
2. Mantra II (Of Bliss And Vision Of Celestial Avataras) - Beatamente - City Of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus
3. Mantra III (Of Will And Vision Of Cosmic Avataras) - Inesorabile
4. I. Lento - Allegro Commodo - Susan Bickley
5. II. Largo - Quasi Allegretto Piacevole - Susan Bickley
6. I. Quasi Funebre - Daniel Hope
7. II. Poco Meno - Daniel Hope
8. III. Andante Lento - Daniel Hope
9. IV. Tempo Della Prima Stanza - Daniel Hope
10. I. Largo
11. II. Moderato
12. III. Lento Assai - Allegro Molto
13. IV. Presto
14. V. Lento Giusto - Adagio
15. VI. Moderato Trionfale

Customer Reviews:

Romantic Masterpieces.......2006-10-31

I got to know John Foulds music through the second CD that was recorded by the CBSO and Sakari Oramo, which led me to get the first. John Foulds was an accomplished and remarkable man whose music - it surprises me - has been unjustly forgotten. The earliest work on this disc, from 1909, is the fourth music-poem Apotheosis, an elegy for orchestra and violin dedicated to the memory of Joseph Joachim. Cast in a single movement, the music is divided into five stanzas and contains allusions to the violin concertos of Beethoven and Brahms. The music begins with a funeral march that is heard again later in the work.

The fifth Music-Poem Mirage was completed in 1910 and is scored for a large orchestra and has six sections which were given titles indicating the philosophical program of the music such as "Immutable Nature" and "Man's ever-ambition." Oddly, the music was rehearsed by the Halle Orchestra but never was played during Fold's lifetime. The music is passionately Romantic with illusions to Wagner and Richard Strauss. A work that aimed at a wider audience was the Lyra Celtica (Celtic Lyre) - a concerto for voice and orchestra. It is an unfinished work with two complete movements with a third partially completed. It is a beautiful and mysterious piece but will not be to everyone's taste as the wordless voice is a work of this length (16:11) can become monotonous.

The Three Mantras come from an abandoned Sandskrit opera called Avatara which was written during the 1920s. The Three Mantras are all of the music that survives from the opera and represents the preludes to each of the three acts and represent the action that will take place. The Mantras work well as concert works with Mantra I a highly energetic toccata representing the theme of activity followed by a movement representing bliss; a peaceful movement that includes a chorus of wordless women's voices. Mantra III, representing Will, returns to the shattering energy of the first movement. The movement contains Foulds' most complex and explosive music.

The music is beautifully recorded and performed. If you like the music of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler and do not know John Foulds you will probably be pleasantly surprised.

Awful racket.......2006-09-17

Couldn't bear listening to much on this disc, and I felt like stopping the CD near the beginning of Mantra #3 (which is track #3 out of 15 tracks), but forced myself to listen to the end. What I hear 90% of the time is tawdry and uninspired. A previous reviewer is, in my view, correct about the chanting (in Mantra #2): It seems to go on and on and completely fails to move this listener. The same can be said of the concerto for soprano and orchestra; one yearns for Gliere's greater mastery in his handling of this medium.

The music improves with the last two items. The Apotheosis, essentally a violin concerto, has some nice moments. And the Mirage, a symphonic poem, aims high, in the manner of Bantock or Bax, but ultimately fails to maintain any consistency of worthy musical ideas, or inspiration. Again, ultimately disappointing.

As mentioned by several previous reviewers, the appearance of experimental compositional techniques in several of these works is certainly admirable, but needs to be couched in music that inspires. Unfortunately, most of the time this doesn't. After this first hearing, it now doesn't surprise me here at least that Foulds' music has not taken hold with either public or performers. In my view, it doesn't stand comparison to British contemporaries such as Cyril Scott, York Bowen, Bax, Bantock, and even Sorabji, where the music at least moves the listener. I love discovering the music of composers unknown to me, but I'm sad to say that Foulds is not one I will be adding to my CD acquistion library.

I had read all of the previous reviews here, and was struck by the wide divergence of opinion, either hating it or loving it, no middle ground. I was hoping to be optimistic, wanting to add another neglected master composer to my already large CD library. But I have to say, I hated the Mantras and the concerto for voice, and found the last two items second rate musically but at least pleasant to listen to.

My advice: Don't waste your money on this CD.

Buy up all the Bax Chandos CDs instead, plus the Cyril Scott Dutton and Chandos CDs, and (when it comes out in 2007) the Bantock "Omar Khayyam" on Chandos together with the other Bantock CDs on the Hyperion, Chandos and Dutton labels.

Ignore the other reviews.......2006-09-07

Finding fault with this music because it fails to accurately incarnate the devices of an exotic musical culture completely misses the point. If this is musical kitsch, then so is The Dance of the Seven Veils and Mahler's employment of Chinese pentatonic scales in Das Lied Von Der Erde, not to mention such distant antecedents as the Alla Turca movement from the Mozart A Major variation sonata. In each case, the music should be judged for what it is and not as a failed attempt at ethnomusicological reconstruction.

Secondly, how could anyone compare this with contemporary New Age music when it obviously eschews the repetitive harmonic devices of trance music and demonstrates a modulatory dynamism typical of turn-of-the-century composers? And finally, if you're going to hold a Victorian composer responsible for 1980s soundtracks, then why not pillory Mahler for having given birth to Max Steiner?

I first heard Foulds' music 20 years ago on a Pearl recording of the Quartetto Intimo by the Endellion Quartet, and I was enthralled by the sheer technical finish of the music and the composer's investigation of such esoteric devices as quarter-tones in an enriched diatonic context. His is an original voice, although it is an eclectic originality that doesn't hit you over the head with the sheer invention of a Janacek or Stravinsky.

Nevertheless, anyone who enjoys British music of the 20's and 30's will probably find something to admire here. Foulds may not "sound" exotic in the Three Mantras but his use of microtones, Eastern scales, polyrhythms and even metrical modulation (in the first Mantra)is in fact quite forward-looking. Certainly there is nothing in Vaughan Williams, Walton or Bax that resembles it. The other pieces are just as beautifully scored, but not as inventive in their musical content. The Apotheosis comes right out of the world of the Dvorak romances. The Lyra Keltica (NOT the Keltic Lament) seems to invoke the vocalise passages in the VW Pastoral Symphony and ends in an absolutely rapt coda in which the vocalist stretches her wordless cantilena around whole tones, microtones and quarter-tones (Susan Bickley does it effortlessly). "Mirage" is the most derivatively Straussian, but certainly is beautifully scored and contains many inspired passages of woodwind writing.

Although there are passing references to Strauss and Scriabin, the cooler flames of Elgar, Bax, Bridge and Howells are much in evidence. I also hear Pingoud, Raitio and Merikanto in some of Foulds' orchestral textures, and it is probably no coincidence that a Finnish conductor, Sakari Oramo, has produced the best recordings to date of Foulds' music--with apologies to the old Barry Wordsworth LPO performances on Lyrita.

Demonstration-class sound and highly recommended.

A Relatively Unknown British Composer: Some Thoughtful Insights.......2006-05-27

John Foulds is not a name that leaps to the top of lists of even the more inquisitive surveyors of British music, but taking the time to listen carefully to his compositions as excerpted on this well-recorded CD gives notice of another influence on the now ubiquitous groups of composers devoted to the influence of Eastern music on Western compositions. Britten did it with his gamelan-inspired works (even including his final 'Death in Venice') while other composers still living (Arvo Part, Tan Dun, Unsuk Chin, Philip Glass, Andres Hillborg etc) continue to mine the sounds and techniques of reproduction on old instruments and melodies. Foulds, while not a great composer, did do is part in influencing the trend in his time.

Of the works here recorded the 'Three Mantras' from 'Avatara' (his abandoned Sanskrit opera) show a gift for orchestration that rivals Strauss. His 'Lyra Celtica, concerto for voice & orchestra is well performed Susan Bickley in an extended wordless vocalise. His 'Apotheosis (Elegy), for violin & orchestra is likewise performed with great dignity by the gifted violinist Daniel Hope. And the collection concludes with the huge 'music poem' Mirage, for orchestra. For a composer who died in 1939 his music is quite progressive and deserves more exposure.

Sakari Oramo conducts the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a committed fashion, obviously with deep respect for a composer who is all but unknown today. This is a far more interesting CD than is being credited, and for those who are eager to know more about 20th century composers who have been neglected, this is a fine selection to try. Grady Harp, May 06

Have to concur........2006-05-26

Hey, don't bring Madame Blavatsky into this! I got through the many hundred pages of Isis Unveiled easier than I sat through this CD.

Yes, this is music that only a certain brand of painfully unaware and matter-of-fact Brit could come up with ( the kind who, during philosophical arguments, refuse to concede that that rock they see in front of them is anything other than a good old solid rock to be kicked with the toe into your scrunched continental visage, sir! ) A lot of the music sounds like inchoate strivings toward what would eventually become the Superman theme. There's a vocalise piece here, wordless female ha-haaaahing, that makes me want to listen to something similar but in better taste, like ABBA's Voulez-Vous.

There's nothing wrong with Foulds having gone to India and striving to express Vedantic wisdom in his music. I will stand proudly next to my collection of Bantock albums and those are mostly a well-fed bourgeois' reveries of ancient Greece. The problem is that ( a ) There is nothing remotely exotic about any of Foulds music and ( b ) It sounds like Christmas music to be piped over tinny speakers at Harrod's while kiddies wait in line to have their satchels signed by a Dumbledorn lookalike.

Absolute nastiness and one of the worst CDs in the collection that threatens to shoulder me out of house and home. If it weren't for the absence of Andrea Bocelli on the cover, I'd think that this were a crossover attempt. My kudos to Foulds though for basically inventing 80's film music back in 1920.

Average customer rating: Celtica - Another 5 stars for EKO The music makes my heart sing

Celtica EKO Manufacturer: Higher Octave ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Evolution: The Best Of Eko Logikal Future Primitive Alter Eko ASIN: B000003Z21 Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

1. Carrigafoyle
2. Relativity
3. Celtica
4. Intro To...,
5. Night Ferry
6. Rosie O'Connor
7. Across The Water
8. The Craic
9. Faith
10. Jack Berry's Trap
11. Intro To...,
12. Dublin To Delhi

Customer Reviews:

Celtica - Another 5 stars for EKO.......2001-10-29

I accidently discovered EKO several years ago and frequently check discographies hoping for another album. How fortunate to find Celtica and again what a great album by this group who release new albums infrequently.

While Celtic in theme, it is as usual, a very electic collection of musical styles and instrumentation. The music is very upbeat, original and refreshing. I can listen to Celtica and other EKO albums again and again.

The music makes my heart sing.......1999-02-28

Two years ago I was recommended to buy this CD. This music has the ability to calm your nerves and gladden your heart. It helped me get through a year of dental surgery and repair. As I sat in the dreaded dentist chair with my CD player on my lap and head set on my ears, I was transformed to another time and place where pain couldn't touch me. Bless you Eko, where ever you are.

Average customer rating: My life before and after Missa Celtica where's the Celitc? Beautiful!

Missa Celtica Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000IWRH Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

1. Part 1: Kyrie
2. Part 2: The Battle Dance
3. Part 1: The Hermit Song
4. Part 2: Colum's Voyage
5. Part 3: Adiutor To Iona
6. Part 1
7. Part 2
8. Creed-Altus Prosatur
9. Bridget's Descent
10. Cantemus In Omne Die-Guth Na Torainn
11. Colum Cille's Elegy-Amra Choluimb Chille
12. Sanctus-Benedictus Lindisfarne: Aiden Is Called To Lindisfarne
13. Song Of The Sea
14. Salvator Mundi: The Storm
15. Sancti Venite
16. Part 1: Journey Prayer
17. Part 2: To The Rhinefall
18. Part 3: Song Of St. Gall (Commad Manchin Leith)
19. 12. The Voyage of Columbanus Pt 4: To Bobbio
20. 13. Agnus Del
21. 14. Song Of Exile
22. Pax Deit

Customer Reviews:

My life before and after Missa Celtica.......2001-06-09

My life changed when I heard Missa Celtica.

This music is one of the best I have ever heard. I am not british and I do not know about the authentic celtic music and what celtic music must be. I am simply talking about music. MUSIC.

I can not describe with words how this music transports me.

This music is so deep. It needs to be heard a lot of times to be embraced with all its moments of passion, sorrow, love, pitty, happiness and triumph.

I would need one star more to rate it SIX over five.

where's the Celitc?.......2000-09-30

I was looking forward to an album of the Mass in Celtic stylings. Instead what I got was a few strategically placed selections with 'pipes, and a lot of English opratic singers who put forth wonderfully the stodgy British style of overpowering the main work. I would have perfered it if the composer had chosen some of the current Celtic artists (Maire Brennan, Anuna, Joanne Hogg, Altan, etc.)or chosen singers in this style, who could have interpreted the Welsh, Scots and Irish texts more faithfully. As it was, in my opinion, there is nothing here for fans of Celtic music. (I gave it one star because the opening theme with the Uilleann Pipes is simply beautiful -- too bad the rest of the album did not carry through with this style.)

Beautiful!.......1999-11-09

A remarkable album. Deeply moving and spiritually uplifting. I hear something new each time I listen to it. A timeless blend of ancient and modern, with a satisfying thematic thread that carries you to the gorgeous finale. Highly recomended.

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Celtica Oliver Schroer Manufacturer: Avalon (Rock Bottom) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000059WWM Release Date: 1998-12-22

Tracks:

1. Wake up Happy
2. Tale With No Beginning
3. Crazy About You
4. Peter and Diane
5. Shorelines
6. Hannah
7. Celtic Fiesta
8. My Friend Brent
9. Sun on a Cloudy Day
10. Swinging Down the Path
11. Simple Song
12. Paddy Goes to Heaven

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El Agua de la Vida Salsa Celtica Manufacturer: Celtic America Llc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Salsa | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008GEPA Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

1. Cumbia Celtica
2. Sol de la Noche (The Midnight Sun)
3. Guajira Sin Sol
4. Agua de la Vida (Uisge Beatha, The Water of Life)
5. Whisky Con Ron
6. Ave Marde Escocia Medley (Hail Mary of Scotland Medley)
7. Maestro (Master)
8. Adios Adios (Farewell, Farewell)
9. Auld Lang Syne

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Missa Celtica John Cameron ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000565EC

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Celtica, Vol. 2: Magie des Ballades Celtes Various Artists Manufacturer: Sony International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004ZBNG Release Date: 2001-12-11

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