Shadowdance

Shadowfax | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 29, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• ASIN: B000000NFQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,560 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. New Electric India

2. Watercourse Way

3. Ghost Bird

4. Shadowdance

5. Brown Rice/Karmapa Chenno

6. Distant Voices

7. A Song For MyA Song For My Brother

Editorial Reviews

7 songs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Age in its best sense, February 9, 2000

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David J. Loftus (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadowdance (Audio CD)

Wow, I'm surprised there are so few Shadowfax reviews on Amazon ... I know there are a lot of fans out there.

Let me say at the outset that I don't qualify as a Shadowfax fan: never saw them live, don't have most of their albums. (I think I have cassettes of _Watercourse Way_ and _The Dreams of Children_ or something else somewhere, but they never got much play in my house.) I'm also not a big fan of New Age music, much of which is just too limp to interest me. I have a Tingstad & Rumbel album or two, like certain acoustic guitarists like Doug Smith and Paul Chasman, used to listen a bit to Kitaro and Jean-Michel Jarre, but that's about the extent of it.

I've seen folks elsewhere on the Internet declare that Shadowfax's best work was done before this album, but I happened to encounter this one and it hit me just right.

This is New Age music with a beat. "New Electric India" rocks, while "Brown Rice" bops along with a sly grin on its face. On the other hand, "A Song For my Brother" aches, and "Ghost Bird" is suitably haunting. A good mixture of moods, and fine musicianship. Wish I'd gotten the chance to see the band live at some point.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great new age CD that captures all your moods, February 1, 2001

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Michael J Harrington (Phoenix, Arizona USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadowdance (Audio CD)

Shadowfax were pioneers of the 'new age' revolution in the 80's (when this CD was released), and this CD has stood the test of time - both in quality and content - akin to their contemporaries of the time (Ackerman, DeGrassi, Story, Winston). The major diff here is that these guys did some 'ensemble' work that was unparalled. It always seemed to me that they were a lot of guys that were into the instrumentals that we all wish we had a lot more of from our 'rock' heroes - Zep, Floyd, etc.

The beautifully crafted 'Shadowdance', 'Ghost Bird', and the re-made 'Watercourse Way' are worth the cost of the CD alone. And then throw in the funky 'Brown Rice' and 'New Electric India' and the epic guitar-wailing 'Song for my Brother', you have got a new age CD and then some.

What more can I say - these guys defined and stretched the limits of 'new age', as opposed to many artists that kept within the bounds and put us to sleep (or at least 'relaxed our muscles and relieved our tensions'). NO, Shadowfax is not some sort of Ted Nugent or Nirvana of New Age - they just had a sound and feeling to their music that lifted us above the 'ambience' of the genre...

Get this CD and you'll know what I mean, and I don't say this in reviews lightly (as I HATE when I do buy on recommendation and I end up hating it). Shadowfax is not for everyone, but it is for anyone who wants some great instrumental music that is above the norm, a touch of new age, and appeals to the soul...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Shadowfax album, August 30, 2002

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Derrick G. Jackson (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shadowdance (Audio CD)

I was in a record store in 1983 when I heard "A Song For My Brother" I immediately bought the album and that was my introduction to Shadowfax and New Age Music. I have since bought this album over twice one cassette and on CD. After that I was hooked on Windham Hill records. Even though I knew nothing about the artists, I would choose an album based on the album cover art. That's how I discoverd Liz Story, George Winston, William Ackerman, Nightnoise and others. This album always remained my favorite, with the haunting A Song For My Brother being the stand out track. I also love Distant Voices and Watercouse Way, but all the tracks are great.