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Traditions - the third CD in The Welsh Gold Collection.
If you want to know what Welsh “world music” is all about, then this is a great place to start!
“World music” is now the term used for what we used to know as “folk music”, and this signifies the change in the way in which this music is perceived. “Folk music” was very much associated with a piece of land, a certain culture belonging to a specific nation or people, but it is now seen as belonging to the whole world. The words of folk songs of all countries tell the same stories, often of rural life and the changing seasons, tending animals or tilling the land, tales of love and heartache, of joy and sadness, the tribulations of working in a quarry or coalmine, or on a ship in stormy seas. The melodies and refrains, and the accompanying instruments, though varied, evoke the same mix of moods and spirit: a dance of delight one minute, and a graveside lament the next, the bitter-sweet song of love turning into the banter of high-spirited horseplay.
This selection is the third compilation in The Welsh Gold Collection. Traditions brings together some of Wales’ leading exponents of folk music, displaying a wide variety of styles and talents. As befits a Welsh compilation, the harp – the national instrument of Wales – features prominently, and also the vocal element is paramount, from the solo voices of Siân James and Gwenan Gibbard to the close harmony of Plethyn, steeped in the “plygain” carol tradition. Over the past four decades, the instrumental tradition in Wales has undergone a dramatic revival, as exemplified here by the leading exponent of the “triple-harp”, Robin Huw Bowen, the brilliant young band Calan, and three of Wales’ major folk ensembles, Crasdant, Ar Log and Carreg Lafar.
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<h2>Traditions - the third CD in The Welsh Gold Collection.</h2> <div class="clsNewsContent">01/04/2009<p><img style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sainwales.com/media/thingimages/scd2559b_1.JPG" alt="Traditions brings together some of Wales’ leading exponents of folk music">If you want to know what Welsh “world music” is all about, then this is a great place to start!<br><br> “World music” is now the term used for what we used to know as “folk music”, and this signifies the change in the way in which this music is perceived. “Folk music” was very much associated with a piece of land, a certain culture belonging to a specific nation or people, but it is now seen as belonging to the whole world. The words of folk songs of all countries tell the same stories, often of rural life and the changing seasons, tending animals or tilling the land, tales of love and heartache, of joy and sadness, the tribulations of working in a quarry or coalmine, or on a ship in stormy seas. The melodies and refrains, and the accompanying instruments, though varied, evoke the same mix of moods and spirit: a dance of delight one minute, and a graveside lament the next, the bitter-sweet song of love turning into the banter of high-spirited horseplay. <br><br> This selection is the third compilation in The Welsh Gold Collection. Traditions brings together some of Wales’ leading exponents of folk music, displaying a wide variety of styles and talents. As befits a Welsh compilation, the harp – the national instrument of Wales – features prominently, and also the vocal element is paramount, from the solo voices of Siân James and Gwenan Gibbard to the close harmony of Plethyn, steeped in the “plygain” carol tradition. Over the past four decades, the instrumental tradition in Wales has undergone a dramatic revival, as exemplified here by the leading exponent of the “triple-harp”, Robin Huw Bowen, the brilliant young band Calan, and three of Wales’ major folk ensembles, Crasdant, Ar Log and Carreg Lafar.</p></div> |
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