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Folk, celtic. Eén van mijn favorieten die te weinig albums uitbrengt.

Carlos Nuñez, the Galician piper, flute and whistle player, and inveterate collaborator, particularly with Irish traditional musicians (he was a de facto member of The Chieftains for a period, and their influence is still very evident in his music), gave a spectacular, over two-hour, performance, covering an extensive range of musical ground.

After an opening set of reels from the core band – harp, fiddle, accordion, guitar and percussion, they played Carlos’s new album Celtic Sea in full, with Tim Edey joining the band on guitar and accordion. Celtic Sea is unusual in that it was commissioned by Brittany Ferries to mark their 50th anniversary. Unsurprisingly, it takes the form of a journey, travelling between all the Gaelic regions and European countries, playing sets of traditional tunes from each along the way. Having explained the provenance of the suite of tunes and that Brittany Ferries began life as a way for Breton farmers to convey their produce across the English Channel, Carlos then provided a short narration of the place and its music at each step of the journey. 

Beginning with The Sea Invocation/Graves from the Isle Of Man, then a ‘simple Galician melody’, and then The Bishop’s Jig from Cornwall played on accordion by Tim Edey. And so, the journey continued, through the Basque Country, Asturias, leaving from Santander in Cantabria, Brittany, Scotland, Ireland (tunes from the Bunting Collection), Normandy and returning finally to Santiago in Galicia. Marche Mare Brittanicum, the album’s anthem (the medieval name for the Celtic Sea), with the addition of the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, completed an utterly fascinating musical documentary, an atlas of Celtic tunes that rolled over from one to the next, each distinctive to its own location, but the connecting Gaelic musical thread there for all to appreciate.

Tracks:
01 - Mare Brittanicum
02 - Mare Brittanicum March (Brittany Ferries)
03 - Celtic Sea Symphony I - Le voyage - Ar mor (Sea)
04 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - O'Castro (Galicia)
05 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Land's End (Cornwall)
06 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Bay of Biscay (Basque Country)
07 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Xana (Asturias)
08 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - The Mountains of Santander (Cantabria)
09 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - The Silver Way (Leon)
10 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Saint Pol de Leon (Brittany)
11 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Gaels (Scotland)
12 - Celtic Sea Symphony II - Le voyage - Glendalough (Ireland)
13 - Celtic Sea Symphony III - Final - Mont Saint-Michel (Normandy), Compostelle (Galicia)
14 - Dihun - Le Réveil

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0BBAjmrWn4