Chemin de Brume [IMPORT]

Gwenael Kerleo

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Qualiton Imported Labels
• ASIN: B00004TZCT
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,003,046 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Gwenael Kerleo is a young harper-composer from Brittany, a Celtic region in western France. Her playing harks back to Alan Stivell's groundbreaking Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique and the neo-Bardic posturings of Myrdhin. She composes her own tunes but is not experimentally inclined or noticeably attracted to Brittany's large and delightful store of dance tunes. She prefers a more delicate, wistful sound, and her perfectly tempered harp solos are echoed by an unobtrusive acoustic ensemble of flutes and double reeds, guitar, bagpipes, squeezebox, and percussion. Kerleo's occasional wordless soprano improvisations recall age-old myths of mermaids, selkies, and sirens, their bewitching voices barely hidden beneath the howling wind. The title translates to "Misty Waves" and the seagoing history and wild coastline of the Breton homeland are felt and heard in a variety of guises throughout the album. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Release your soul..., January 11, 2004

By	Dr. Oliver Strebel (Berlin, Deutschland) - See all my reviews

Moving music in celtic tradition with the harp
at its center, gently arranged with guitar,
accordeon, saxo or drums. Especially the harp
is technically very sound and of touching clarity.
But it is not the finesse of the composition,
which makes this music unique.

Similar to mathematics, which formalizes
the archetypes of the mind,
can music reflect the essences of the soul.
And Gwenael Kerleo is a genius in distilling
music from the grounds of the human soul.

So: release your soul and let the harp
of Gwenael Kerleo speak to you.
She will guide you on a journey through
miraculous sceneries of your soul.

4.0 out of 5 stars Gwenael Kerleo's "Chemin de Brume", August 17, 2008

By	R. L. Tompkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This second CD by the Breton harpist Gwenael Kerleo is a good one. It continues in somewhat the same style as her first CD "Terre Celte", but with more percussion and lots of accordeon and other instruments. Not a great CD but very nice if you like her musical style. But this and her first CD were just lead ups to her third album "Yelen" which is without a doubt one of the greatest celtic harp albums ever made. Now THAT is a CD which you must buy if you like celtic harp at all. It is phenomenal! This one is good, but not extraordinary in any way.