Distant Shore

Orla Fallon - Distant Shore

Distant Shore
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Artist: Orla Fallon
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Music Label: Green Hill
Soundtracks:
  1. Who Knows?...
  2. Distant Shore
  3. Dancing in the Moonlight
  4. My Land
  5. Shooting Star
  6. Bean An Tí
  7. Always There
  8. Voices on the Wind
  9. Simple Love
  10. My Waking World
  11. Eleanor Plunkett: Trip to Shanbally/Michael O'Dwyer's
  12. You'll Never Be the Sun
  13. Hard Times

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Music Review: If you've worn out your Celtic Woman CDs there new music here
Rating: 4 Stars


Orla Fallon recorded a few solo albums and then joined up with the group/PBS-phenomenon Celtic Woman, recording and touring with them for four years. She's left the group and this is her first post CW album. She has a built-in fan base from the legion of CW fans and these fans won't be disappointed here. As part of CW he really had no name; she was "one of those women on stage playing and singing Celtic music". Here, she not only has a name and face but Fallon herself composed three of the tracks.

She sings as well as plays the harp and there is only one fully instrumental track among the 13 on the CD. Personally, I think another instrumental earlier in the album would have paced the music better. "Dancing in the Moonlight" was actually written as an instrumental but Fallon decided to sing along. Though she says that she wanted to include some "Americana" in the mix (no, not Willie Nelson or Robert Earl Keen songs) and so we get a "Celtic version" of Little Feat's "Voices in the Wind" and the beautiful a capella version of Stephen Foster's "Hard Time Come Again No More" for the closing track. (The strings come in later in the song.).

This CD is on the Green Hill label, which is primarily sold in gift shops, and features generic titles that never even list the performer, or compilations of "licensed" tracks compiled in to jazz or oldies albums. This is a departure and I'm sure that Fallon's beautiful vocals will attract shoppers to ask, "Who is that singing? Is that Celtic Woman?". Then the store clerk can answer: "No, actually its just ONE of the Celtic Woman. Her name is Orla Fallon, and this is her new CD.".

Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
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Description of Distant Shore

The deep, joyful and soul-moving tradition of Celtic music meets the top-rank pop musicianship of our time in the inspiring and intimate Distant Shore, the brand new solo album by ORLA FALLON, formerly of Celtic Woman.

For years, Fallon has held audiences spellbound the world over with her pure and emotional singing and virtuoso playing on the Irish harp as one of Celtic Woman's stunning talents and beloved soloists. Now Fallon delivers 13 wonderful, newly recorded songs that takes the listener on an amazing musical journey. From the hit single, "Dancing In The Moonlight" to the gorgeous track "Always There" Distant Shore delivers on every level.

The album was produced by Eoghan O'Neill (pronounced: Owen) and Dan Shea. O'Neill is a founding member of the seminal Irish folk-rock band Moving Hearts, and was Musical Director of Riverdance-The Show. For the past five years O'Neill has shared the world stage with Orla as Celtic Woman's Musical Director and bassist. Shea, a multi-platinum American producer, whose long resume of hit pop productions includes tracks by Mariah Carey, Carlos Santana, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion and Martina McBride, produced and/or co-produced six tracks on Distant Shore.

Shea and John Bettis wrote the title track "Distant Shore." Bettis, an American lyricist, has co-written songs for several music legends including Madonna, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston and the late Michael Jackson.

Additionally, two tracks on the album ("My Land" and "Always There") were co-written by Rolf Løvland and Brendan Graham, composers of the modern standard, "You Raise Me Up," best known in North America in the No.1 Josh Groban version, while several tracks were written by Orla herself.

The album was recorded at the famed Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin and at Nashville's Dark Horse Studios - both recording facilities have hosted such platinum stars as U2, The Chieftains, Faith Hill, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Taylor Swift, Big & Rich and Martina McBride.

Fallon continues her wonderful relationship with PBS as she appears on stations nationwide as a special guest star on Jim Brickman's Beautiful World and by herself in very intimate settings and performances.

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