Waiting for an Echo

Waiting for an Echo

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While Waiting For An Echo was recorded in hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and studios on two continents, the album sounds sonically cohesive with an emphasis on instrumentals. Stylistically, however, the quintet of top-flight musicians is all over the place. There's a bushel of Irish traditionals that come in shape of reels and jigs strung together (the even-keeled "Steven Campbell's/The Road Ringussoon/The Bag Of Beer" is a highlight); but the band also dives into folk-pop balladry on "The Silver Dagger" and "Erin," conjures a little country twang on "Lowground" and "On A Sea Of Fleur de Lis." A handful of guests further diversify things, but one thing about Celtic musicians is their thirst for jamming, so in way this is a more realistic look at a band than some of its Celtic music-leaning fans may be willing to allow. Nevertheless, there is enough here to keep them placated, unless you're fan of singer Patricia Scanlon, who contributions are limited to a few songs. - Tad Hendrickson

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Waiting For An Echo, Solas seventh Shanachie CD, was recorded in a number of locations including Seamus' home studio in Philadelphia and on the road in Germany. "We did what we call guerilla recording," laughs Seamus Egan. "We recorded everywhere we could, backstage at concerts, in hotel rooms and wherever it made sense using a Mac G4 and my mobile recording unit." In typical Solas fashion, the band has crafted a thrilling mix of traditional gems, jigs, polkas, reels, contemporary material and originals. Their use of counterpoint and driving syncopation pulsates throughout the CD.

Seamus Egan says, "From one project to the next, we never want to make the same record. This album is more than anything a snapshot of where we are musically. We're a band that happens to have a strong grounding in a particular tradition. But the way we look at it, that tradition allows itself to be played with a little bit; it's malleable enough and strong enough to allow that. I think it's fundamentally impossible to play music any other way than being who you are and what you are. Irish traditional music is the first music I have any memory of; for a long time, I thought it's all there was. But I never saw it as something old; it was always there in our lives, and always evolving."

Highlights on Waiting For An Echo include the Antje Duvekot song "Erin," featuring the vocals of Mick McAuley, the traditional song "The Silver Dagger" which showcases an imaginative revamped melody and altered arrangement by Winifred Horan and the Richard Shindell song "On a Sea of Fleur de Lis," featuring the angelic vocals of Deirdre Scanlan. Solas has long wanted to record this Shindell song and finally does it on Waiting For An Echo.

Also included is "The Coconut Dog Morning Dew," two reels, the first penned by Eagan and the latter a traditional number arranged by the band. "The Coconut Dog" unites Solas with renowned Spanish bagpiper Carlos Nunez who has recorded with and is currently on tour with the Chieftains. The band recently had a chance to meet up with Nunez while on tour in Germany October and November of 2004.

Waiting for an Echo

Waiting for an Echo,Solas,Shanachie,British Folk,Celtic Folk,Celtic/Irish,Contemporary Celtic,European Folk,Int'l & World Music,Ireland,Irish,Irish Folk,Pop,Traditional Irish Folk

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Sounds of the Eighties: The Late '80s Various artists , Tell It to My Heart - Taylor Dayne/Valerie - Steve Winwood/What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians/When Smokey Sings - ABC/Funkytown - Pseudo Echo/Out of the Blue - Debbie Gibson/Waiting for a Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl/ , At This Moment - Billy Vera & Beaters/Could've Been - Tiffany/Jacob's Ladder - Huey Lewis & News/In Your Room - Bangles/Hungry Eyes - Eric Carmen , and Is This Love - Whitesnake/Wait - White Lion/Carrie - Europe/Just Between You and Me - Lou Gramm/I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) - Aretha Franklin & George Michael/Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley Manufacturer: BMG Special Products TCD-785 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sounds of the Eighties: The Early 80s- Take Two Time-Life: Sounds Of The Eighties [80'S] - The Rolling Stone Collection - 1988-1989 All That Jazz ASIN: B000NHZUD2

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Average customer rating: Eh... Better... i heart solas Thank you WUMB-Boston dear reviewer, Who CARES if they plug-in?!

Waiting for an Echo Solas Manufacturer: Shanachie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Celtic Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Celtic New Age | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Local Ground Another Day The Words That Remain Reunion: A Decade of Solas Edge of Silence ASIN: B0006TRO6S Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. The Hanover Reel / John James Reel / The Copperplate
2. The Silver Dagger
3. Tom Sullivans / Micks Polka / The Newmarket Polka
4. On a Sea of Fleur de Lis
5. The Night Visit
6. The Coconut Dog / Morning Dew
7. Doireanns Waltz
8. Lowground
9. The Ballerina Jig
10. Erin
11. The Ploughman
12. Steven Campbells / The Road to Ringussoon / The Bag of Beer
13. Mi Pequena Estrella (Little Star)

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Seamus Egan says, "From one project to the next, we never want to make the same record. This album is more than anything a snapshot of where we are musically. We're a band that happens to have a strong grounding in a particular tradition. But the way we look at it, that tradition allows itself to be played with a little bit; it's malleable enough and strong enough to allow that. I think it's fundamentally impossible to play music any other way than being who you are and what you are. Irish traditional music is the first music I have any memory of; for a long time, I thought it's all there was. But I never saw it as something old; it was always there in our lives, and always evolving."

Highlights on Waiting For An Echo include the Antje Duvekot song "Erin," featuring the vocals of Mick McAuley, the traditional song "The Silver Dagger" which showcases an imaginative revamped melody and altered arrangement by Winifred Horan and the Richard Shindell song "On a Sea of Fleur de Lis," featuring the angelic vocals of Deirdre Scanlan. Solas has long wanted to record this Shindell song and finally does it on Waiting For An Echo.

Also included is "The Coconut Dog Morning Dew," two reels, the first penned by Eagan and the latter a traditional number arranged by the band. "The Coconut Dog" unites Solas with renowned Spanish bagpiper Carlos Nunez who has recorded with and is currently on tour with the Chieftains. The band recently had a chance to meet up with Nunez while on tour in Germany October and November of 2004.

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Eh..........2006-08-01

Better..........2006-05-10

i heart solas.......2005-12-14

Thank you WUMB-Boston.......2005-08-22

dear reviewer, Who CARES if they plug-in?!.......2005-07-03

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Echo Waiting Manufacturer: Goat Hill Records, Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAFFEO Release Date: 2004-11-09

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Waiting for Another Fall Mercurine Manufacturer: Heads On Sticks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAJQYO Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. Wish
2. Bluemouse
3. August in Hell
4. Format HD
5. Nu Groove
6. Copper Rain
7. Sunlightgreyskies
8. Strangetimeslove
9. Another Ending

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Count John McCormack: Music of the Night Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Goetz, Hermann | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WRC Release Date: 1997-01-21

Tracks:

1. Music Of The Night
2. A Song Remembered
3. A House Love Made
4. The Quietest Things
5. Echo
6. The Meeting Of The Waters
7. The Bard Of Armagh
8. Faith
9. The Blind Ploughman
10. Ye Banks And Ye Braes
11. When I Awake
12. Down By The Sally Gardens
13. Silent Noon
14. Loveliest Of Trees
15. The Dawn Will Break
16. Linden Lea
17. The White Peace
18. The Little Boats
19. She Moved Through The Fair
20. Bantry Bay
21. Our Finest Hour
22. O Promise Me
23. Will You Go With Me
24. Still As Night
25. Come Back My Love
26. Waiting For You

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