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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sparkling and jazzy harp music, November 29, 2002
This review is from: Dance to Your Shadow (Audio CD)
Combining elements of Celtic, contemporary and world music, Kim Robertson and friends continue to stretch their creative boundaries with innovative arrangements of traditional material and compelling new compositions. Kim's breathy vocals are featured, along with the fiddle playing of Liz Carroll, the flutistry of Chris Norman (of the Baltimore Consort), the accordion of John Williams, and a host of other instruments blown, strummed, bowed and beaten. The title "Dance to your Shadow" is taken from a Gaelic legend about Mary Macrae, of the Isle of Harris. Persecuted for her "old world ways" of spiritual reveling by "the bigots of an iron time, who called her simple art a crime", she "went her own way, chanting her...mouth music, and dancing to her own shadow when nothing else was available. A fugitive remnant of an ancient and grand people, never to return." Fortunately, we live in an age where at least some of us have the freedom to spiritually revel as we wish, inspired by profound and sparkling music such as this. May it be so, some day soon, for all in this world.
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