Gloryland
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Brand: MarshallEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- I'm on My Journey Home ("O Who Will Come and Go with Me"), Revival ...
- Address for All (William Walker); Like Noah's Weary Dove (American ...)
- Wayfaring Stranger, Religious Ballad
- Wayfaring Stranger (Instrumental Version)
- Where We'll Never Grow Old, Gospel Song
- Ecstasy ("Oh, When Shall I See Jesus"), Revival Song
- Wagoner's Lad, Folk Song
- Mercy-Seat ("From Ev'ry Stormy Wind That Blows"), Folk Hymn
- Return Again ("Saviour, Visit Thy Plantation"), Revival Song
- Lost Girl, Folk Song
- Palmetto ("Shall We Gather at the River"), Folk Hymn
- Pleading Savior ("Gently, Lord, O Gently Lead Us"), Folk Hymn
- Merrick ("Saviour, Visit Thy Plantation"), Revival Song
- Shining Shore, Gospel Song
- Saint's Delight ("When I Can Read My Title Clear"), Revival Song
- Just Over in the Gloryland, Gospel Song
- You Fair and Pretty Ladies, Folk Song
- Medley: Parting Friends; Wayfaring Stranger
- Green Pastures, Gospel Song
Music reviews of Gloryland
Music Review: Not my cup of tea
Rating: 1 Stars
I have to agree with the reviewer Karen and also with Mr. Volgel. Gloryland is not my cup of tea.
Rather than add to the discussion of what shape note music is, who sings it for whom, and other exercises, this CD reminds me of the Turtle Island Quartet's offering of Coltrane's "A Love Supreme." The music is well done, but it's just not Trane or what the composers meant for it to be. I'm trying to think of a genre where this CD would fit and can't.
The only track that appealed to me was "Wayfaring Stranger," and I think that is because it reminds me of some very early Joan Baez, but this track is dissimilar to the others. Perhaps my problem with the Anonymous 4's approach is I've heard several of these songs and it's as if they are trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
That said, the disc obviously appeals to some, but not to me. What to do? Download a track or two for a buck each and see what you think before paying full price.
Description of Gloryland
Having left medieval chant and somewhat later polyphony behind and moved, musically, across the Atlantic with their last CD (American Angels), the women of Anonymous 4 are still exploring. For their move up a few centuries, their impeccable tonal purity remains, but a decidedly American twang has been added to some of the folksier, Southern mountain-based tunes and revival songs. It's as accurate and enchanting as everything else they do. Their sense of history, the when and where of the music they perform, manages to avoid academic stuffiness: this music communicates. Hymns, ballads, and revival songs make up Gloryland, and the 4 have added superb instrumentalists--Darol Anger and Mike Marshall on fiddles, mandolins, and guitars--to the mix on about half the selections. Some of the songs are begun in simple solfege* (fa, sol, la, mi, etc.) and then are sung with the actual text. Some are presented as duets or solos, and "I'm on My Journey Home" is sung by all four women; some are simple, others delightfully rich harmonically. Irresistible. --Robert Levine * Often called "shape-note" singing because the tones were frequently notated in differently shaped symbols for teaching purposes (fa = triangle, sol = circle, etc.).General CDs
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