LOREENA McKENNITT NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY AWARD FOR HER LATEST ALBUM, TROUBADOURS ON THE RHINE Loreena McKennitt has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the New Age category for her album Troubadours On the Rhine . This is the second Grammy nomination for the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist - she was nominated for Best Contemporary World Music Album in 2007 for her best-selling album An Ancient Muse . "I'm a little surprised to find myself as a New Age nominee," she [...]
Loreena McKennitt : Cymbeline [ purchase ] Have you ever played Word Association? It’s the game where one person says a word, and the next player has to say the first word that comes into their head. The results can be funny, revealing, or just wonderfully odd. This week, we will be playing a musical version of that game, and forming a song chain. Each song will have something, anything at all, to do with the last one. To start off, here is the first song that came to mind when [...]
Loreena McKennitt has found a great groove with eir latest album, Troubadours on the Rhine. I believe that this title does tons for expanding the celtic genre, and does so in a way that will appease fans and newbies alike. This is largely due to McKennitt’s inimitable vocals, but the supporting instrumentation that is present [...]
Nee, ik ga er geen einde aan maken. En nee, ook al klink ik de laatste tijd als Daffy Duck (dat is een heel ander verhaal), dit is geen ode aan de Looney Toons (al verdienen zie die ode natuurlijk wel). Nee, deze Duurt Lang gaat over de heftige confrontatie die ik had toen ik [...]
Loreena McKennitt : The Lady of Shalott [ purchase ] Alfred Lord Tennyson published his original version of The Lady of Shalott in 1832, but Loreena McKennitt takes her lyrics from Tennyson’s revised version from 1843. Tennyson is famous for his Idylls of the King, which was a series of poems inspired by Thomas Mallory’s Le Mort D’Artur. Although The Lady of Shalott is a tale with Arthurian elements, it is not part of The Idylls of the King. In fact, the poem was inspired by an Italian telling of the [...]
Loreena McKennitt : The Bonny Swans [ purchase ] The Bonny Swans is a murder ballad about sexual jealousy. Childs lists it as #10 of his 305 Popular English and Scottish Ballads , and the original version goes way back to 1656 or thereabouts (Childs labels it " The Twa Sisters "). Here's Wikipedia's summary of the gruesome plot: Two sisters go down by a body of water, sometimes a river and sometimes the sea. The older one pushes the younger in and refuses to pull [...]
It’s that time again! Following are my Top 25 Albums of 2010. Like 'em or not, these are the albums I've personally enjoyed and listened to most often in the past year. Click on the album titles to read the full reviews, purchase the albums, and, in some cases, download mp3s… *Honorable mention to Florence + the Machine's Lungs , which would have been #2 on this list had it been released this year. Muruch’s Top 25 Albums of 2010 25. Sheila [...]
Loreena McKennitt's albums are often unfairly relegated to the "New Age" category alongside Irish artists like Enya and Clannad. Yet the truth is that McKennitt is Canadian and her style is an enchanting brand of ambient, multi-cultural folk music. With her latest release, The Wind That Shakes The Barley , Loreena returns to the traditional Irish and Scottish music that was the halmark of her early career. The album finds cellist and kindred musical spirit Caroline Lavelle and several other skilled guest musicians accompanying Loreena's singular voice on timeless, traditional Celtic classics. [...]
Loreena McKennitt returns to her Celtic roots in her latest album
Loreena McKennitt goes back to the traditional Celtic and English folk music that launched her career with the release of The Wind That Shakes the Barley on November 16 via her own Quinlan Road label. An international, Grammy-winning success story who has sold nearly fifteen million albums worldwide (including five million in the U.S.), McKennitt has expanded her original Celtic harp-focused sound to include a variety of world music styles, most notably the Spanish Basque and rhythmic middle eastern music influences. The [...]
The first in a three-part volley of last minute holiday cheer from our friends over at Media Potluck (the guys responsible for Audio Archaeology ). Stick around for their Media PODluck: A Christmas Evening Together podcast, and the debut of their 2009 Holiday Feast over the next few days. Christmas music is everywhere this time of year. Since the beginning of November, the air has [...]
Sentendola ci scende una lacrima. E ci sale un brivido. Perchè " L'amore non ha fine ", track title dell'album di Valentina Giovagnini è bellissima. Coerente col suo stile che mescolava il pop d'autore con i suoni della musica celtica, di cui lei era una cultrice. Valentina Giovagnini non c'è più, spazzata via da un maledetto incidente stradale a soli 28 anni agli inizi dell'anno. La famiglia della cantante di Pozzo della Chiana - che avrà anche un premio intitolato a lei per gli artisti emergenti - ha deciso di concedere la [...]
Come e più di ogni anno i canali tv nei prossimi giorni si rincorreranno in una serie di eventi legati al Natale. Noi di Soundsblog non potevamo non segnalarvi quelli musicali ed eccoci qui pronti. Si parte già domani e ce n'è per tutti i gusti e generi, non solo prettamente natalizi. A voi l'elenco: se ne individuate altri, segnalateceli nei commenti. 21 dicembre ore 10:30 Raidue - Concerto di Natale della coralità di montagna ore 12:20 Raiuno - Concerto di Natale con Giovanni Allevi e I Virtuosi Italiani . 24 [...]
Loreena McKennitt : The Lady of Shalott [ purchase ] No week of songs about aristocrats could be complete without a tale from the Arthurian legends. Here, after all, we have a set of tales in which almost no common folk appear. I’m sure that most readers are familiar with the main outline of the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. But the Arthurian legends also encompass a large number of side stories. In particular, when the knights scatter throughout the countryside in search [...]
Come ogni venerdì approdiamo alla nostra rubrica sulle uscite discografiche della settimana. Anche oggi arrivano nei negozi molti dischi, tra cui gli annunciati e attesi ritorni dei The Cure , di Anastacia , di Pink e dell'icona Grace Jones . Oltre agli ultimi lavori degli Snow Patrol e dei Marillion , quest'ultimo per chi lo volesse in originale visto che era possibile scaricarlo gratuitamente . Tra gli italiani sicuramente molti attendevano i nuovi album di Gigi D'Alessio e di Andrea Bocelli . [...]
This is large and sprawling, but rich and lush. folk--Loreena McKennitt--Live In Paris And Toronto 2-09 Cymbeline http://download.yousendit.com/ 34D421F312F478EC You can find it here. http://search.half.ebay.com/mc kennitt-toronto_W0QQmZmusic
Loreena McKennitt neemt je mee in een wereldreis door verschillendebuiten-Europese landen met haar oosters-getinte wereldmuziek. Onlangshoorde ik het nieuwe album An Ancient Muse van de Canadese zangeres.Haar muziek heeft een keltische achtergrond verweven met een lichteArabische cultuur. Het geheel blijft klassiek en traditioneel, maar ze weet deze twee termen te combineren als geen ander, wat z...
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