Celtic Music ReviewsCeltic MP3s Music Magazine is a free weekly Celtic music & mp3 magazine featuring free music downloads of Celtic, Scottish, Irish music from around the world. Subscribe for a chance to win free Celtic CDs. Don't just download. "Safe Home" by Round The House by Catherine L. Tully Artist: Round The House Album: "Safe Home" Year produced: 2007 Traditional Irish music here, yes, and a lot of it too! Round The House has been doing this for almost ten years, and this solidly done, long 15-track CD gives a lot of variety as well as great musicianship and energy. You'll hear vocal music, (although not all of it in English, which is a nice touch), instrumentals and even a contra dance set--for they are also a contra dance band! This grouping of songs has a real mixture--you'll hear reels, a march and of course a jig--mixed with vocal tracks and some really well done instrumental work. The drum thump totally resonates and adds a "heartbeat" to the music often; it's lovely when this is highlighted like it is here in several songs. Always a shame to relegate it to the background as a mere force for keeping time--it's more than that. The band does a stellar job at focusing on instruments and showing them off, sounds rising, then falling as another takes the center stage. It makes the mix of tracks quite eclectic in terms of feel. The band doesn't really pin itself down to one sound per se musically, preferring instead to let each track highlight various musicians or vocals. Lovely. Particularly enjoyable were track 2, "Rory Og McRory," and the contra dance set which really lit things up, swirling and whirling its way through the set like their very lives depended on it. Buy the Album: "Safe Home" Catherine L. Tully is a freelance writer and photographer who specializes in the arts. She has written for American Style and Classical Singer, among others and reviews music for Marc Gunn's Celtic MP3s Music Magazine. You can reach her through her photography website at http://www.moonbeamdigital.com/.
--posted by Catherine L. Tully, Thursday, April 12, 2007. Find Celtic Free Music Downloads from the Brobdingnagian Bards. |
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