Wild And Beautiful Music Cd

Wizards - Wild And Beautiful

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Wild & Beautiful      Artist : Silly Wizard      List Price : $17.98 USD        Your Price : $17.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Shanachie      Label : Shanachie      Avg. Customer Rating : (7 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Wild And Beautiful      If I was a Blackbird      Rating:      I'm just a kid. My dad is a big fan of this kind of music. Recently he has been listening to this celtic CD. Honestly I love them and their music. My dad has one other CD which is their best songs or greatest hits, there is one song on both of those CDs that really stands out which is the fisherman's song. When my dad got this CD I instantly recognized The Fisherman's Song, but another song stands out, If I was a Blackbird. This is a sad song about a sailor whose lover doesn't love him enough to stay with him so she sails away. Although it is sad, it is definatly the best song on there. It is a beautiful song and his voice is comforting. I would buy this CD only for this song. I strongly reccommend this CD for anyone who loves celtic music as much as my dad.     Customer Reviews for Wild And Beautiful Cd      Rollicking, down-to-earth music from Scotland      Rating:      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.