New Rough Guide Releases: Celtic Music & African Blues!
28 April sees the release of two new World Music Network compilation albums: The Rough Guide to Celtic Music and The Rough Guide To African Blues. Besides the various artists featuring the compilations, each release also includes a bonusalbum. The new Rough Guides are available as a one off purchase and can be part of your subscription service.
28 April sees the release of two new World Music Network compilation albums: The Rough Guide to Celtic Music and The Rough Guide To African Blues. Besides the various artists featuring the compilations, each release also includes a bonusalbum. The new Rough Guides are available as a one off purchase and can be part of your subscription service.
The Rough Guide To Celtic Music
Storytelling lies at the heart of Celtic music; breathtaking voices sing tales of lost love, tragedies both old and new, as well as exile, prison, war, and separation. Featuring bodhrán, flute, guitar and harp, this Rough Guide includes old folk lullabies, work songs and contemporary compositions from leading Celtic artists.
The term ‘Celtic music’ encompasses the sweet songs and wistful melodies of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany (France), Asturias and Galicia (Spain). The modern Celtic music revival was shaped, in large part, by the folk movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In Wales, many of the Celtic traditions were lost during the Nonconformist period in the eighteenth century, and musicians were left to reconstruct traditional works. The revival has reached new heights in recent decades, epitomized by the Scottish group, Capercaillie, a band that has sold over a million albums.
Certainly, one of the trademarks of Celtic music is a breathtaking lead vocal as well as using instruments to mimic human expressions. Another hallmark that has been synonymous is captivating storytelling. Tales of lost love, tragedies both old and new, as well as exile, prison, war and separation, woven through old folk lullabies and work songs, as well as contemporary compositions. Today, Celtic music is expanding in virtually every direction as groups such as Chantan, Solas and the Old Blind Dogs fuse elements of rock, jazz, electronica, R&B, and African folk music with traditional Celtic melodies.
Storytelling lies at the heart of Celtic music; breathtaking voices sing tales of lost love, tragedies both old and new, as well as exile, prison, war, and separation. Featuring bodhrán, flute, guitar and harp, this Rough Guide includes old folk lullabies, work songs and contemporary compositions from leading Celtic artists.
The term ‘Celtic music’ encompasses the sweet songs and wistful melodies of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany (France), Asturias and Galicia (Spain). The modern Celtic music revival was shaped, in large part, by the folk movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In Wales, many of the Celtic traditions were lost during the Nonconformist period in the eighteenth century, and musicians were left to reconstruct traditional works. The revival has reached new heights in recent decades, epitomized by the Scottish group, Capercaillie, a band that has sold over a million albums.
Certainly, one of the trademarks of Celtic music is a breathtaking lead vocal as well as using instruments to mimic human expressions. Another hallmark that has been synonymous is captivating storytelling. Tales of lost love, tragedies both old and new, as well as exile, prison, war and separation, woven through old folk lullabies and work songs, as well as contemporary compositions. Today, Celtic music is expanding in virtually every direction as groups such as Chantan, Solas and the Old Blind Dogs fuse elements of rock, jazz, electronica, R&B, and African folk music with traditional Celtic melodies.
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