Solas

Seamus Egan, Solas - Solas

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Artist: Seamus Egan, Solas
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; English (Original Language), Stereo
CD Release Date: 1996-06-04
Music Label: Shanachie
Soundtracks:
  1. Nil Na La
  2. The Flowing Bowl/Maire Breathnachs #1/The Doon/The Mason's Men
  3. The White Petticoat/Stan Chapmans/The Miller's Maggot
  4. I Wonder What's Keeping My True Love Tonight
  5. The Yellow Tinker/Cranking Out/Master Crowleys #2
  6. Crested Hens
  7. Johnny's Gone For A Soldier
  8. Dougie MacDonalds/Maire Breathnachs #2/The Antrim Rose/Atlantic Wave/Toss The Feathers
  9. The Newry Highwayman
  10. Gan Ainm/The Humours Of Whiskey/Leslie's March
  11. Sliabh Geal Gcua Na Feile
  12. Lament For Frankie
  13. Timmy Cliffords/The Return Home/O'Ot Be Est Da Vong/John Joe Caseys

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Music Review: absolute must if you like irish/scottish traditional
Rating: 5 Stars

No idea what "music fan" from Buffalo is talking about; those criticisms sound more like a criticism of the entire genre, from someone who doesn't know the genre enough to hear the distinctions and thus thinks it all sounds the same. (Remember your parents and "that screaming on rock music that all sounds the same"?) Solas' first two CDs--this one and Sunny Spells--were the height of Irish musicianship in the late '90s, and they were widely (and rightly) acclaimed at the time as the best Irish band outside Ireland's borders, and possibly the best in the world.

I would agree that there is the occasional near-throwaway track on these first two CDs--maybe a couple of tracks per album, or in some cases, just sections of a set, not the whole set. Also, rarely, the unison is so precise it almost sounds _too_ clean, with the edges all smoothed off, almost as if it were electronically programmed and played, without the rougher quality that a traditional band usually carries with it. (My wife--a stepdance teacher--and I jokingly refer to one of those tracks as the "Dialing for Dollars" music, because it really does sound like until they get into the second piece in the set.)

But there are far more moments of exhilarating virtuosity in well-chosen pieces and well-assembled sets. During this period, Solas had an unmatched ability to update traditional music and to breathe life into it without losing its traditional character or becoming the least bit "Celtic-new-agey." To the sorrow of many musicians, that ability seems to have left them progressively in their last three efforts. But this early CD, along with Sunny Spells, should be bedrock stuff for anybody who likes Irish and Scottish trad.

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