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Karan Casey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shanachie
• ASIN: B000000E5J
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,546 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very wonderful voice indeed, September 16, 2000

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Callie "chroi" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songlines (Audio CD)

I first heard Karan Casey's wonderful clear voice on "Celtic Solstice". I quickly recognized the clarity, purity, and beauty of her voice. You will love the beauty of her voice in "She's Like The Swallow", "Shamrock Shore", "The Fair-Haired Boy", and "One, I Love". Even though her voice is very light, it has a lot of strength, especially in "Ballad of Accounting" and "The Digger's Song". Her wonderful voice expresses the lyrics very well and does very well in expressing the Irish spirit. There are love songs like "Roger the Miller", "One, I Love", and "The Laboring Man's Daughter". There also are songs like "Shamrock Shore", "The Fair-Haired Boy", and "The Digger's Song", which express Ireland's desire to end tyranny and win freedom. The music is very smooth and gentle, with violin, flute, and excellent percussion in "The Digger's Song". "The Wondering Song of Aengus" (a.k.a. The Golden Apples of the Sun) is adapted from a poem by the famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I better liked the version she sang on "Celtic Solstice", but even so, it has perfect arrangements, just like the rest of the songs. Lovely as the music is, she sounds really great in a capella! In the end, I would definately say that Karan Casey is a grand singer. I think of her as one of Ireland's finest singers, along with Maire Brennan and Noirin Ni Riain.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a beautiful voice., October 1, 1999

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Joel Hacker (Chickasha, OK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songlines (Audio CD)

I first heard Casey's voice on one of those compilation cds of celtic music that are so common. It was, "One, I Love". I listened to that track repeatedly. She's got such a clear and emotional voice. This cd is highly recommended.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful addition to any Celtic library!, December 17, 2002

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Gwen A Orel (Millburn, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songlines (Audio CD)

During a promotion for a concert I was giving for someone else in October, we played a brief clip of "martinmas time" (my group, the Celtic Music Society of Montgomery, was bringing Casey in four months later). By the time I got back to my desk, we'd sold 6 tickets.

Casey has studied jazz, and it shows. These are not staid, "safe" renditions of traditional songs-- these songs really move along, with fire, a little swing, bounce and joy. "Roger the Miller" with its mockery of a young man who got greedy when he beheld his fiancee's riches makes me smile every time I hear it.

I love her version of "Creggan White Hare"-- though I first learned it from Andy Irvine and Dick Gaughan, I think her cover is even more memorable. Casey's voice takes you on a journey through her songs. She has a light quality to her voice-- a bit like Triona O'Domhnaill (Bothy Band, Relativity, Nightnoise) rather than someone like June Tabor-- and it makes the more serious songs very fresh. It's just impossible not to care about the narrator when she sings!

A really terrific CD.