Silly Wizard - Wild & Beautiful
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Artist: Silly WizardEdition: Music CD
Published: 2009-02-17
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Shanachie
Soundtracks:
- If I Was A Blackbird
- Pipe Major Donald Campbell/The Orphan/The Kestrel/Come Up Alang (Jigs)
- The Pearl
- The Fishermen's Song/Lament For The Fisherman's Wife
- Hame, Hame, Hame/Tha Mi Sgith (Slow Air)
- Tha Mi Sgith (Strathspey)/Eck Stewart's March/Mackenzie's Fancy (Marches)
- Miss Patricia Meagher
- A.B. Corsie (The Lad From Orkney)/Ril Bheara/Richard Dwyer's (Reels)
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Music Review: Rollicking, down-to-earth music from Scotland
Rating: 4 Stars
This is real music, of the sort you'd expect to hear on a Saturday evening at a local pub--warm, rousing, and authentic. Silly Wizard's distinctive sound is defined by the deft accordion-playing of Phil Cunningham and the heartfelt, unpretentious vocals of Cunningham and lead singer Andy M. Stewart. Martin Haddin on keyboards and guitars and Gordon Jones on guitar and bodhran round out the core quartet, which is joined on this album by fiddler Dougie MacLean and drummer Roy Ashby. The accordion-led dance sets, tracks 2, 6, 7 and 8, are lively and winning, and Stewart's broguish singing in the slow numbers, such as "If I Was a Blackbird" and "The Fishermen's Song", is so genuine and understatedly heartfelt that it just tugs at my heart every time I hear it. Browsers whose computers will only let them sample the first few tracks should be aware that this album starts out on the slow side but really ends with a bang on the last three sets. Something that both dates and distinguishes the music of Silly Wizard is the use of keyboards such as that featured in "The Pearl", which sound rather like a pedaled, electrified harpsichord. It's a timbre not heard much these days in the instrumentations of newer Celtic groups, but it actually compliments the reedy sound of an accordion and the plucking of guitar strings quite nicely. Good overviews of Silly Wizard's output include "The Best of Silly Wizard" and "Live Wizardry". For contemporaneous work of Phil Cunningham, check out "Gathering Pace" by Relativity, starring Phil and his brother Johnny, along with siblings Triona Ni Domhnaill and Michael O Domhnaill.
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