Artist: Capercaille
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Nadurra
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
The musical traditions of Scotland are coalesced with the dynamic drive and electronic orchestration of contemporaneous music by Capercaille (marked: Kap-ir-kay-lee). While their initial repertory focussed on traditional tunes gathered from Christine Primrose, Flora MacNeill and Na h'Oganaich, the group has more and more incorporated modern influences. In a inspection of their 1999 album, To the Moon, Victor Arenas wrote, "It has been more than a x of a constant evolution, of modelling their traditional past with those modern ingredients that have made of their music that for which no dubiousness they testament be known in the future."
The inspiration for Capercaille was sparked in the early-1980s by senior high schools friendsKaren Matheson (granddaughter of traditional Scottish vocalizer Elizabeth MacNeill and a sometime member of a family mathematical group, the Etives), and English-born/Scotland-raised keyboard player Donald Shaw. The original band included Scottish bodhran and whistle player Marc Duff (world Health Organization had played in several bands with Shaw), violinist and vocalist Joan MacLachlan, guitar and bouzouki player Shaun Craig, and bass voice and monkey instrumentalist Martin MacLeod. After construction a report with local performances, the banding recorded their debut album, Cascade, in a fast-paced, three day, recording session.
Capercaille has at peace through legion personnel changes with but Matheson, Shaw and Duff remaining from the original radical. Shortly after British violinist Charlie MacNeill replaced Elizabeth MacNeill in 1991, the band recorded their second record album, Crosswinds, and embarked on their number one American tour. Their earlier winner came in 1988 with their commissioned soundtrack for a telecasting series about the history of Gaelic Scots, The Blood Is Strong. A soundtrack album, introducing Irvine, Scotland-born bassist John Saich, sold more than century,000 copies in Scotland and was reissued on cd in 1995.
With the accession of influential Irish bouzouki and guitar player and vocalist Manus Lunny in 1989, Capercaille became one of Celtic music's most repected ensembles. At the same time, they continued to reach out to a much bigger consultation. With their fourth album, Sidewaulk, produced by Lunny's brother Donal, the band began to incorporate English-language lyrics. The group reached their creative blossom with their fifth record album, Delirium, in 1991. A groundbreaking spinal fusion of traditional and modern influences, the record album included "Coisich A Ruin," a little Joe century year erstwhile song, that became the low gear Scots Gaelic song to reach the U.K. summit 40 when it was used as the stem strain for a British television system show featuring Prince Charles, "A Prince Among Islands", and "Breisleach," which featured lyrics by Edinburgh-based poet Angus Dudb (Black Angus), and became the motif birdcall of a Gaelic-language soap opera, "Machair."
In 1992, Capercaille released Come Out, featuring live tracks and tunes from earlier albums, and a video, Deuce Nights Of Delirium, that captured the band's live performances. Although their albums, Private People, released in 1993, and Capercaille, released the undermentioned year, featuring new tunes and remixed versions of in the first place material, were highly criticized for their overly-commercial level-headed. Capercaille's soundtrack for the pic, Gazump Roy was released in 1995, and the chemical group rebounded with the impressive albums, To The Moon in 1996 and Beautiful Wasteland in 1997; Nadurra followed in 2000.
