Lights in the Dark [Import]

Hector Zazou (Artist), Traditional (Artist), Breda Mayock (Artist), Katie McMahon (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B000009PT5
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,599 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ralt (The Star)

2. Seacht Sauilcena Maighdine Muire (Seven...

3. Dn Nar Marbh (Song of the Dead)

4. Caoineadh Na Dtr Muire (Keening Joys of...

5. Seacht Sauilcena Maighdine Muire (Seven...

6. Gol Na Dtr Muire (Lament of the Three...

7. Amhrn Na Pise (Song of the Passion)

8. In Ainm an Athar le Bua (In the Name of...

9. Seacht Ndlas Na Maighdine Muire (Seven... -

10. Duan Chro osa (Little Song to the Heart...

11. Caoine Mhuire (Mary's Lament)

12. Achain an Ghra (Requests of Love)

13. Amergin (Tomb of Every Hope)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer brilliance in the dark, June 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lights in the Dark (Audio CD)

Hector and the ladies go way beyond the traditional ethereal old and modern Irish religious Sean Nos of the likes of Noirin Ni Riain, who is justly thanked on this album "for paving the way". Nowhere the same, nowhere boring, nowhere conventional, but refreshing, surprising and renewing a very old tradition. Like a genuine Celtic tradition to mould an amalgam of the very best of foreign elements (Japanese!) with the strong potential of indigenous traditions to create a unique and succesful blend. A perfect album as such, in its sheer musical brilliancy but even with consideration to the tradition of numerical esoterism when putting its strongest track Amhran na Paise on position seven (!) out of a total of thirteen (!) Columcille himself would have approved! He who has ears, may he hear...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to make moss grow, whisky flow and tired skin prickle., February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lights in the Dark (Audio CD)

This should surprise nobody. The man needed to set straight the dangerous Riverdance tendency which should not be the world's window on Irish culture. Lights in the Dark follows naturally the even more ethereal -- but perhaps more feral -- Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corse (Philips 848515-2), a set of Corsican choral works with a little touch of John Cale. How can I find out what's happening next? Do I wait 'til Cale comes to Australia again, and ask him? Hector, talk to me!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotically beautiful, October 13, 1998

By 

Aliza Mansolino (Burlington, VT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lights in the Dark (Audio CD)

An ethereal, dreamy collection of sacred Irish hymns - very different from Hector Zazou's other CDs, but equally mesmerising. The vocalists and arrangements are haunting. Not to be missed!