Faeries: A Musical Companion To The Art Of Brian Froud

Various (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2011)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: WINDHAM HILL RECORDS
• ASIN: B00006J3ZZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,989 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet Allure

2. Dreaming

3. Nature's Kingdom

4. Awakening

5. Miserere

6. Wild Butterfly

7. Alegrma

8. Undistracted

9. Nevermore

10. Aerial Boundaries

11. Hugh

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Faeries, The art of Brian Froud, February 18, 2003

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Susan M. Solinger (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faeries: A Musical Companion To The Art Of Brian Froud (Audio CD)

I love this CD!! I listen to it at work, using my head phones, and I'm in another world. Of course I also listen to it in my car as well. Two songs on this CD really are absolutely enchanting, haunting and just beautifull. The first one is "Miserere" and the second one is "Nevermore", which is very pretty to listen to. I also like the variety of music on this CD. It's not the same sound of song after song. Different melodies, beats and so on. I perfer this CD than the Woodland CD. Though Woodland is not bad, but it seems to repititious in it's songs throughout the CD. But the songs do sound nice.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Return me to the realm of Faerie..., November 4, 2002

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Kerrie McNay (Heath, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faeries: A Musical Companion To The Art Of Brian Froud (Audio CD)

Faeries: A Musical Companion to the Art of Brian Froud
Review by Kerrie Colantonio (C) October 2002 All Rights Reserved

Rippling sounds, waves, breaking through the pool that gathers at the base of the spring, arms reaching out to draw me in, to trade places, worlds. Faerie walks the world of Man, human girl wanders lost in wanderlust, head swimming in glitter and glam.

This past Spring I was beckoned into the Faerie glen by the poetry and lilting notes of Woodland at the Faerieworlds Festival. Early this Autumn, I found myself again drawn into the realm by FAERIES: A MUSICAL COMPANION TO THE ART OF BRIAN FROUD, falling in step with leaf-sailing pookhas and faeries in legwarmers and scarves!

From ultraviolet underground to light and aerie, the songs and melodies selected for this collection are well mixed. The seductive sounds of "Sweet Allure" by Ballingomingo and "Dreaming" by BT will pull you down into the underground dance scene- and right on through to the realm of Faerie. Soft and ethereal, the voices of Aylmer and Cahill singing "Nevermore" will sweetly haunt you as you go about your day, while the joyous notes of "Alegria," from Cirque du Soleil's show of the same title, will raise the spirit and send it on its merry way to paint the world with rainbow colors.

Upon starting the enhanced portion of the CD, faeries and piskies dance in and out of view, a smooth blend of mythical art and digital mastery. Enhanced features include a Gallery, text from an Interview with Brian Froud, a Film Clip from "The Fairy Faith," an Animation, and an Excerpt from the new Lady Cottington's Fairy Album.

Images in the Gallery feature friends old and new, some never been seen before (as is the way from time to time with fairy folk) - particularly haunting is the image, "The Ragged Wood," a masked woman, emblazoned with a red rose.

Jugglers and fans of GOOD FAERIES/BAD FAERIES and THE FAERIES' ORACLE will clap their hands with joy to see the young balancer, Adroito, with his magical balls in motion in the Animation. Look carefully- faeries like to pop in and out of our lives and the screen in the blink of an eye!

Photos and folly, faith and fancy, following and falling- here they all start with the same thing- Froud. I think Brian said it best in the Interview: "Music has a wonderful ability to create space; it discretely lifts you out of the current moment and transports you into another world. The type of music is not important; what is important is that you surrender to it and let it take you away?" I surrender, I surrender?

Night dances back to the edge, sends herself to where I stand, and I stand on the edge, where I once stood, so long ago, so recently. I do not return to where I once lived, for I did not live there, did not breathe there, I merely was. Following the path I thought I knew, past the cottage where I once grew, towards the horizon, so deep and blue, to find and begin a life made new, a Life True.

(C) Kerrie A. Colantonio October 2002 All Rights Reserved
Please do not reproduce without the author's express permission.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome mix of sound, October 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Faeries: A Musical Companion To The Art Of Brian Froud (Audio CD)

This album is not what you would expect at all and that is the coolest thing about it. Fairies music always makes me think soft and sweet, but this music has such a pulse about it. The mix of sounds is wonderful. Some very soulful singing combined with a strong back beat that moves the songs along in such a way that you can just lose yourself in it. Fans of Enigma will more than likely love this album. Track 7 is Allegria from the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name and track 5 has a wonderful choral arrangement set to synthesized background. Best of all this is an enhanced cd so along with all the fabulous music there is a beautiful computer program featuring the art of Brian Froud. All in all, an unexpectedly enjoyable album.