Susan McKeown
"Bushes & Briars" 1998
On Bushes & Briars, Susan McKeown brings her eloquent and haunting voice -- as well as the instrumental talents of a distinguished cast of supporting musicians -- to bear on a set of traditional Celtic and British songs. Most of her accompanists are Irish musicians, but the arrangements are anything but traditional: McKeown sings "In London So Fair" over a shimmery bed of looped whistles and mandolins; "Bonny Boy" is delivered a cappella in a controlled voice that hints at an underlying frenzy of rage and sexual frustration; and her accompaniment on "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" consists entirely of tabla, tambura and low whistle -- a truly bizarre instrumentation that fits so perfectly with her quiet, resigned delivery that you may not even notice its strangeness. McKeown has taken an ancient repertoire and made it entirely new and her own, with wonderful results. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
John Clark - French horn
Larry Campbell - guitar
Johnny Cunningham - fiddle
Hassan Hakmoun - vocals
Susan McKeown - vocals, guitar
David Bargeron - tuba
Jamshied Sharifi - keyboards
Nikki Matheson - background vocals
Samir Chatterjee - tabla, tambura
Mick McAuley - accordion
Akira Satake - mandocello
Don McGeen - bassoon
Tom Zajac - hurdy-gurdy
Guest player:
Andy Irvine, Greg Anderson, Seamus Egan, Jerry O'Sullivan, Chris Speed, Skuli Sverrisson
On Bushes & Briars, Susan McKeown brings her eloquent and haunting voice -- as well as the instrumental talents of a distinguished cast of supporting musicians -- to bear on a set of traditional Celtic and British songs. Most of her accompanists are Irish musicians, but the arrangements are anything but traditional: McKeown sings "In London So Fair" over a shimmery bed of looped whistles and mandolins; "Bonny Boy" is delivered a cappella in a controlled voice that hints at an underlying frenzy of rage and sexual frustration; and her accompaniment on "The Mountain Streams Where the Moorcocks Crow" consists entirely of tabla, tambura and low whistle -- a truly bizarre instrumentation that fits so perfectly with her quiet, resigned delivery that you may not even notice its strangeness. McKeown has taken an ancient repertoire and made it entirely new and her own, with wonderful results. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
John Clark - French horn
Larry Campbell - guitar
Johnny Cunningham - fiddle
Hassan Hakmoun - vocals
Susan McKeown - vocals, guitar
David Bargeron - tuba
Jamshied Sharifi - keyboards
Nikki Matheson - background vocals
Samir Chatterjee - tabla, tambura
Mick McAuley - accordion
Akira Satake - mandocello
Don McGeen - bassoon
Tom Zajac - hurdy-gurdy
Guest player:
Andy Irvine, Greg Anderson, Seamus Egan, Jerry O'Sullivan, Chris Speed, Skuli Sverrisson
posted by Lizardson at 1:31 AM
3 Comments:
Sorry, no D/L link
I sooo wish to listen to this ,.. can you provide a link ... wonderful blog btw .. thank-you <3
See the earlier post from Susan McKeown requesting not to offer her music as download. Also see comments there. We should respect an artist who makes a request like she has done. I believe this is what has happened on this site in this case.
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