- Audio CD (Feb 27 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Narada
- ASIN: B000059RT6
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings
| 1. Morning Dew |
| 2. Dance To Your Shadow |
| 3. Mantle So Green |
| 4. Sally Gardens/Rider's Song/Apples In Winter |
| 5. My Johnny Was A Shoemaker/Cobbler's Jig |
| 6. O'Keefe's Slide |
| 7. Piper's Despair |
| 8. Inisheer |
| 9. No' My Plaid/Strayaway Child |
| 10. I Once Loved A Lass |
| 11. Broken Prayer |
| 12. Farewell To Stromness |
| 13. Ca' The Yowes/Plough The Stars |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Kim Robertson has created a unique harp style by playing Celtic melodies with a jazz improviser's sense of rhythm and a classical harpist's sophisticated technique. On Dance to Your Shadow she uses Irish songs and dance tunes as a launching pad for a series of improvisations and meditations that blend traditional Celtic sounds like the harp, fiddle, flute, and accordion with instruments from other cultures like the djembe, didgeridoo, and tabla. Robertson is joined by an excellent crew of accompanists, including fiddler Liz Carroll, accordionist John Williams, and George Winston, who sits in on harmonica. It is a tribute to the musicality of Robertson and her fellow musicians that selections like "Morning Dew," with its mix of Celtic melody and Indian rhythm, and the title track, which features a beautifully ethereal vocal by Robertson herself, sound so organic and unforced. The music on Dance to Your Shadow has its roots in the ancient music of Ireland, but its spirit is universal. --Michael Simmons
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkling and jazzy harp music,
By Brianna Neal (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dance to Your Shadow (Audio CD)
Combining elements of Celtic, contemporary and world music, Kim Robertson and friends continue to stretch their creative boundaries with innovative arrangements of traditional material and compelling new compositions. Kim's breathy vocals are featured, along with the fiddle playing of Liz Carroll, the flutistry of Chris Norman (of the Baltimore Consort), the accordion of John Williams, and a host of other instruments blown, strummed, bowed and beaten. The title "Dance to your Shadow" is taken from a Gaelic legend about Mary Macrae, of the Isle of Harris. Persecuted for her "old world ways" of spiritual reveling by "the bigots of an iron time, who called her simple art a crime", she "went her own way, chanting her...mouth music, and dancing to her own shadow when nothing else was available. A fugitive remnant of an ancient and grand people, never to return." Fortunately, we live in an age where at least some of us have the freedom to spiritually revel as we wish, inspired by profound and sparkling music such as this. May it be so, some day soon, for all in this world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkling and jazzy harp music,
By Brianna Neal - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dance to Your Shadow (Audio CD)
Combining elements of Celtic, contemporary and world music, Kim Robertson and friends continue to stretch their creative boundaries with innovative arrangements of traditional material and compelling new compositions. Kim's breathy vocals are featured, along with the fiddle playing of Liz Carroll, the flutistry of Chris Norman (of the Baltimore Consort), the accordion of John Williams, and a host of other instruments blown, strummed, bowed and beaten. The title "Dance to your Shadow" is taken from a Gaelic legend about Mary Macrae, of the Isle of Harris. Persecuted for her "old world ways" of spiritual reveling by "the bigots of an iron time, who called her simple art a crime", she "went her own way, chanting her...mouth music, and dancing to her own shadow when nothing else was available. A fugitive remnant of an ancient and grand people, never to return." Fortunately, we live in an age where at least some of us have the freedom to spiritually revel as we wish, inspired by profound and sparkling music such as this. May it be so, some day soon, for all in this world.
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