Steve McDonald - Sons of Somerled
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Artist: Steve McDonaldEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1996-02-01
Music Label: Etherean Music
Soundtracks:
- Introduction
- Sons of Somerled
- Live On My Warrior Son
- All You Can Know
- Loch Lomond
- Soldier's Lament
- Come to the Isle of Skye
- Scotland the Brave
- Celtic Seque
- Celtic Warrior
- I Will Return
- Wild Mountain Thyme
- Per Mare, Per Terras
- Lordship of the Isles
- Journey of the Warrior Soul
Music reviews of Sons of Somerled
Music Review: Mystic Highland Music
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is best enjoyed with two fingers of 15 year old Laphroaig....
This was my first McDonald CD. I listened to it when I first bought it, didn't like it, and put it in my closet for almost 8 years. I then "re-discovered" it and love it. It's a bit different that most other celtic ablums I have, but it's uniqueness makes it good. As others have said before, Loch Lamond is by far the most powerful song on the CD. McDonald's remake itself is worth the album.
Description of Sons of Somerled
Album of the Year Winner! ... "The musical equivalent to Braveheart" (Billboard Magazine) Steve McDonald's celtic contemporary music soars with cinematic tales of Scottish history. Enhanced CD includes musical video. No Clan exercised such a powerful influence in early Highland history as the Macdonalds. Somerled emerged early in the 12th Century as a leader to expel the Vikings from Southwest Scotland. His marriage to a Norse princess made him a formidable adversary to the Scottish king. Somerled's grandson, Donald, became the founder of "Clan Donald" - literally the "children of Donald" - giving his descendants and followers the name Macdonald or "son of Donald".Sons of Somerled features the sonic treat of densely layered synthetic instrumentation shot through with heavy-duty vocal emoting, recalling both fellow Scotsman Dougie MacClean and the ballads of English pop star Phil Collins. Romantic in its notions of nationalism, war, and history, Sons of Somerled recalls man's love affair with the sea, the bluster and pride of the likes of Braveheart, and the all-consuming quest for the eternal soul mate. Such heady aspirations coupled with dreamy musical accompaniment speak to an audience hungry for the bittersweet passion of life writ by the unseen hand of fate. --Paige La Grone
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