Silver Apples of the Moon

Silver Apples of the Moon

Silver Apples of the Moon

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1. Arise and Dress Yourself
2. Scottish Reel Set: Sir Davidson/Sma' Coals for Nailers/Jack Broke da Pr
3. Killarney Boys of Pleasure/Oro 'Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
4. Rockin' the Cradle
5. Flowing Tide/New Claret
6. Song of Wandering Aengus
7. Far Away
8. They Grey Cock
9. Dr. John Stafford/Constantine Maguire
10. Polska Set
11. Plain Girl's Lament
12. Death of Queen Jane
13. Lias Laddie

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Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Timeless music from the stone age of electronica
  • Big Fun In An Alien Soundscape
  • Inventive Electronics
  • Still Original after 30 Years
  • A unique and engaging voice from the pre-digital age.
 Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer

Manufacturer: Wergo Germany
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ASIN: B000025QZI
Release Date: 1994-06-14

Tracks:

  1. Silver Apples Of The Moon: Part A
  2. Silver Apples Of The Moon: Part B
  3. The Wild Bull: Part A
  4. The Wild Bull: Part B

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Timeless music from the stone age of electronica.......2003-09-09

By notions of electronic music, this album is about as old as they come. And amazingly these pretty primitive sounds don't sound dated at all. How did Subotnick know to avoid the cliches that would plague most later synthesizer music? Maybe it's rather that most pop musicians -- who came to define synthesizer music -- didn't listen to atonal and arythmic bloops and bleeps, so they never picked up on these textures. Their loss. This music is still sparklingly original. Required listening.

5 out of 5 stars Big Fun In An Alien Soundscape.......2003-09-07

In an era when electronic music seems to have ossified into the making of formless, but nonetheless attractive, spacey atmospheres, or into industrial strength techno-monotony, it is refreshing to hear this computer-generated music from the 1960's when Morton Subotnick could create serious compositions. This pricey disc contains 2 half hour pieces, each originally released in the dark ages as a separate LP. They are quite distinct from each other, yet definitely arising from the same esthetic. Bleeps, hisses, blangs and moans? Yes. Odd, self-generating rhythmic structures from some other time dimension? Positively. Wonder, fear, tension and resolution? Absolutely. 'Silver Apples' and 'Wild Bull' are as strange, challenging, and hopefully, delightful, as any music you are ever likely to hear. Great stuff!

5 out of 5 stars Inventive Electronics.......2001-10-13

Wild sounds, strange timbres, heavy syncopated rhythms like jazz from another dimension: two of Subotnick's earliest works, composed when electronic music was still new and cliche-free. Anything but ambient, it demands your attention!

5 out of 5 stars Still Original after 30 Years.......2000-09-22

I remember being in the Electric Circus in NY during the late sixties or early seventies and having heard the wonderful music of Morton Subotnick. He had a number of speakers placed around the club and they throbbed with his pulsating electronic rhythms. This CD captures the essence of that music and has great historical significance in the chronology of electronic music. Unlike other composers Subotnick managed to create organic music from very inorganic synthetic timbres. Since he departed from the popular trend to use the Moog synthesizer and instead chose more esoteric ones developed by Donald Buchla I think he managed to achieve a completely fresh approach to electronic music composition.

In the early seventies there was a branch of synthesizer musicians who wanted the instrument to imitate the sound of natural acoustic instruments. Walter (Wendy) Carlos at that time was making significant impact with Switched on Bach and there was a flurry of other composers hopping on this particular band wagon. Subotnick, however, chose another path. Because of the nature of the Buchla synthesizers I think the blend of musical vision and instrumentation has never been more fully realized than in the recordings on this CD.

Electronic music has had the stigma of being gimmicky and its introduction into mainstream music was done with some awkwardness and a great deal of rejection. Most musicians and composers realized the potential but few knew exactly how to tame this new medium. Subotnick was one of a small handful who fortunately did understand the medium. In the compositions of Subotnick, the synthesizer is no longer a gimmick but a fully mature instrument that deftly underpins the power of his music. He uses the instrument to craft new tonalities, timbres and rhyhmic structures that probably would have intrigued Varese had he lived to hear them. The fact that the music itself is almost tribal adds interesting counterpoint and tension to such primitive energy being created via the means of high techology.

I owned both of these compositions when they were orginally introduced on vinyl by Nonesuch. Needless to say, I still have the originals but am very grateful to be able to listen to these wonderful compositions again without all the scratch noise. I highly recommend this CD to anyone interested in totally innovative music executed to a high state of perfection.

4 out of 5 stars A unique and engaging voice from the pre-digital age........1998-10-27

It borders on the cliché to refer to electronic music-especially that composed before the advent of digital synthesis and the all-pervasive Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-as bleep-bloop music. But, it cannot be denied, there was a lot of bleeping and blooping going on well into the 1970's. The academic world was awash in the jittering goings on at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, and other such places, from which the likes of Charles Wuorinen's Pulitzer Prize winning Time's Encomium were produced. Don't get me wrong, a good bleep and the odd bloop now and again does a body good, but it is always a delight to discover composers such as Morton Subotnick who defy all clichés and head off into unknown territory. This 1994 release of two of Subotnick's earliest recorded compositions is, therefore, a rare treat. Oddly packaged as part of Wergo Music's Music with Computers series (no one had ever heard of Computer Music in 1967), are Silver Apples of the Moon, a composition originally commissioned and released by Nonesuch Records, and the mythically titled 1968 composition, The Wild Bull. Composed and recorded using the now rare, albeit famous, Buchla synthesizer (or Electric Music Box as its designer, Donald Buchla preferred to call it), these compositions display Subotnick's talent for creating a personalized electronic music that is at once challenging, haunting, kinetic, engaging, sad, contemplative and immanently engrossing. His music ranges from pensive to frantic in mood and even manages to swing a bit along the way (in Subotnick's inimitable style, of course). Those not prepared for Subotnick's unique voice may find these titles a bit dense, foreign even, but they are never overbearingly strident, even when they are engaged in the electronic music equivalent of hand-to-hand combat. Evoking simultaneously the Electronic Tonalities of Louis and Bebe Baron's unforgettable Forbidden Planet soundtrack from 1956, to the ancient wail of a Sumerian beast of mythology, one must not approach these recordings lightly. Do not expect any Switched on Bach doodlings here, Subotnick and the instrument he helped design were never ones for imitation or interpretation. This is the real deal (with a little bleeping and blooping thrown in for good measure!). The recording itself was digitally restored and remixed by Michael Hoenig, himself an electronic musician of the 1970's German school, ala Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, and is crisp and clean. Missing, perhaps, is a touch of the warm mystery of the original vinyl pressings; however, these recordings are essentially faithful to the originals. Highly recommended for the musically adventurous.
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ASIN: B00004T0FZ
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

  1. Valse Sentimentale - Clara Rockmore
  2. Oraison - Ens D'Ondes De Montreal
  3. Etude Aux Chemins De Fer - Pierre Schaeffer
  4. Williams Mix - John Cage
  5. Klangstudie II - Herbert Eimert/Robert Beyer
  6. Low Speed - Otto Luening
  7. Dripsody - Hugh Le Caine
  8. Forbidden Planet: Main Title - Louis Barron/Bebe Barron
  9. Elektronische Tanzste: Concertando Rubato - Oskar Sala
  10. Poem Electronique - Edgard Varese
  11. Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean) - Richard Maxfield
  12. Apocalypse-Part 2 - Tod Dockstader
  13. Kontakte - James Tenney/William Winant
  14. Wireless Fant - Vladimir Ussachevsky
  15. Philomel - Milton Babbitt
  16. Spacecraft - MEV

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  1. Cindy Electronium - Raymond Scott
  2. Pendulum Music - Sonic Youth
  3. Bye Bye Butterfly - Pauline Oliveros
  4. Projection Esemplastic For White Noise - Joji Yuasa
  5. Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1 - Morton Subotnick
  6. Rainforest Version 1 - David Tudor
  7. Poppy Nogood - Terry Riley
  8. Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay
  9. Music Promenade - Luc Ferrari
  10. Vibrations Composees: Rosace 3 - Francois Bayle
  11. Mutations - Jean-Claude Risset
  12. Hibiki-Hana-Ma - Iannis Xenakis
  13. Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals: Drift Study '31/69 c.... - La Monte Young

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  1. He Destroyed Her Image - Charles Dodge
  2. Six Fants On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song - Paul Lansky
  3. Appalachian Grove - Laurie Spiegel
  4. En Phase/Hors Phase - Bernard Parmegiani
  5. On The Other Ocean - David Behrman
  6. Stria - John Chowning
  7. Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series - Maryanne Amacher
  8. Automatic Writing - Robert Ashley
  9. Canti Illuminati - Alvin Curran
  10. Music On A Long Thin Wire - Alvin Lucier
  11. Melange - Klaus Schulze
  12. Before And After Charm (La Notte) - Jon Hassell
  13. Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) - Brian Eno

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Opening with Clara Rockmore's reworking of Tchaikovsky with the theremin, and finishing with one of Brian Eno's ambient soundscapes, OHM artfully succeeds in its goal of giving a representative (as opposed to the impossible, comprehensive) overview of the first several decades of electronic music. Over 3 discs, 42 compositions, and 96 pages of notes and photos, OHM clearly illustrates the producers' and contributing writers' point that early electronic music is much of the foundation of contemporary music. Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop and the globalization of sound. The groundbreaking uses of loops, sampling, drones, remixes, and cut-and-paste technology are put fully into context. The diversity of music included makes any sort of summation impossible, but that is also the point: electronic music is not really a genre, but an open field of endless possibility. From John Cage's famous "William's Mix" of tape snippets to Karkheinz Stockhausen's electronic orchestral compositions, from David Tudor and Holger Czukay's experiments in unrelated blendings of audio elements to David Behrman's supremely peaceful duet between computers and musicians, the aural renegades on OHM tread where none (save a few of their contemporaries) had gone before. The liner notes convey the incredible amount of hard work and experimentation it took to stitch together many of these pieces in the predigital era. Putting aside the inevitable quibbles about what's missing (much of it due to legal and/or logistical issues), a more complete collection of musical eggheads, eccentrics, and visionaries is hard to imagine. --Carl Hanni

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars excellent but uncomplete.......2006-11-12

Althought most of the music here is an excellent collection of electronic music history, this 3 CDs lack of the important contribution given by the RAI phonology studios of Milan, Italy in the 50s
(which was bigger than Koln's WDR studios) with Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio and Luigi Nono.
This is a big mistake. Milans studios were the biggest of europe and produced many important electroacoustic pieces.
If the collection aim to describe faithfully electronic music history, it should include this artists too.

4 out of 5 stars To call it music may be a bit limiting. .......2006-10-24

Some of the tracks on here are "music". That is that they contain all the bits we're trained to experience as music -- melody, etc. Some are not, and the composers would be the first people to tell you that. A lot of these works are reactions to ingrained rules, so they're bound to be jarring.

A more successful way to approach such a broad and varied collection of audio experimentation is to think of it as curated sound. This isn't something to wash the dishes to, or to seduce someone to (although if you did manage to seduce someone with the recordings on this anthology, HOLD ON TO THAT PERSON, because they've got to be a keeper). These are unique sound textures that deserve a close, probably solitary listen, and I think if you're in the right frame of mind, it can be a very rewarding listen.

My main complaint is sequencing: each dicrete piece follows it's own internal logic, so there are more than a couple rough gear changes. However, since each piece is so different, and the collection is so varied, I'm not sure that you could totally escape that.

4 out of 5 stars A worthwhile collection.......2006-01-11

The OHM collection contains some of those ground breaking electronic compositions that have shaped today's styles, from the early electronic instruments of Theremin and Martenot, through Pierre Schaeffer's Music Concrete tape music and the electronic music of Stockhausen and Subotnick, to the mainframe computer output of Risset and Chowning.

It is unfair to mark this collection down due to the production quality and 'musicality' of its contents, to do so would be to staggeringly miss the point of the development of electronic music through the 20th Century. What this collection shows is the ideas behind those at the cutting edge of the genre before many could even conceive of such output. That said it is hard going at points, as experimental music can be.

Highlights for me are no doubt Olivier Messiaen's 'Oraison' on CD 1, David Tudor's 'Rainforest Version 1' on CD 2 and on CD 3 David Behrman's 'On the Other Ocean' and Maryanne Amacher's 'Living sound Patent Pending'.

1 out of 5 stars OhMyGodHowDreadful.......2005-08-15

Ok, this collection is supposed to be early works and, thus not expected to be very sophisticated or polished. But the OHM collection sounds like the first attempt of a spastic cat turned-loose on a Moog keyboard. When it is not boreing, this collection of random and dissonant sounds (I can't call it music) is without any redeeming qualities to make it worth while. Don't get me wrong, I am a long-time fan of Wendy (nie Walter) Carlos and some other real pioneers of electronic music. However, I find that the Ohm collection has no similar qualities and is a major disappointment.

5 out of 5 stars Kid Stockhausen.......2003-01-17

This is required listening for anybody interested in the history of electronic music. Although implicitly aiming for the techno music audience, this audio history is overwhelmingly focused on the classical avant-garde of electro-acoustic composers. The closest you'll get to pop electronica is the Brian Eno track at the end of the third disc. No Kraftwerk, no Moroder, etc. Instead "OHM" manages to point to the continuities between, say, John Cage and artists currently working at the experimental edges of electronica (so-called IDM). It seems to be saying, "You think Kid 606 is visionary? Well check out this Stockhausen track from '59!"

Admittedly, some of the songs are much more interesting to think about than they are to listen to. Some of the early pieces that were made through thosuands of hours of pains-taking tape-splicing could be made today in an afternoon with a digital audio editor and a few effects plug-ins.

It is a beautiful package, containing a 90 page booklet of essays, quotations from the featured artists, and photographs. What all music should be: an education in daring.
Silver Apples of the Moon
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Beautiful eclectic, yet so strange and fiery
  • Strange percussive atmospherics
  • Good mood music but . . .
  • OUTER SPACE, INNER CITY
  • Stone Roses + My Bloody Valentine + Garbage - guitars
 Silver Apples of the Moon
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ASIN: B000006AZG
Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

  1. Sugar Daddy
  2. Marimba Song
  3. Let Me Sleep
  4. Itchy and Scratchy
  5. Coming Down Glass
  6. If You Miss
  7. 44 Robbers
  8. Red River
  9. Honey in Heat
  10. Thomas
  11. Spider Happy Hour

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful eclectic, yet so strange and fiery.......2004-02-20

Having bought this album primarily on a recommendation from a fellow customer, "Silver Apples Of The Moon" stands as one of the most remarkable revelations I have had.

The sound of "Silver Apples Of The Moon" is almost indescribable. Built largely on the keyboards and guitar of Guy Fixsen and the intense drumming of Lou Ciccotelli, the songs on "Silver Apples Of The Moon" do have generally recognisable verses and chorus, but, like on so many great records, these are made incredibly moody. Unlike on previous hyperfeminine masterpieces like Laura Nyro's "New York Tendaberry" or Kate Bush's "Hounds Of Love", the mood shifts on "Silver Apples Of The Moon" can be traced directly to the dense funky rhythms (which at times recall a more sloppy Stevie Wonder) which are able to move from dreamy lullabies to ferocious rock, far harder than early 1980s post-funk.

The dramatic character of this album is best seen on the amazing, psychedelic "44 Robbers" on which Margaret Fielder's assertive tone and Lou Ciccotelli's amazing playing (better than Stuart Elliott on "Hounds") builds a tale of domestic violence that is just so frightening, yet so immediate one will never turn away after a single listen. "Red River" is strange yet sensual at the beginning due to the sound effects, yet becomes trance-like when Fielder's untrained, yet expressive voice comes in. Fielder sounds fearsome here, yet on "Marimba Song" and "Sugar Daddy" she is softer and sweeter than any singer before her could be. "Thomas," the second-last track, was even stranger let still immediate in character even when Louise Elliott comes in with an explosive saxophone solo that actually sounds like an echo.

The mainly instrumental "If You Miss" sums up the strangely beautiful character of "Silver Apples Of The Moon": dissonant synthesisers managing somehow to blend perfectly with sweet marimbas/vibraphones and jazzy textures to create something soft in texture yet burning with true incandescence. "Let Me Sleep" was as dense as a drum orchestra, yet still managed to be remarkably memorable because of the upfront sound.

One of the truly outstanding albums of the 1990s, even if almost impossible to find in my native Australia.

3 out of 5 stars Strange percussive atmospherics.......2003-10-26

Innovative percussion rules on Silver Apples Of The Moon, a brave experiment from a remarkable band. Sugar Daddy opens the album in rhythmic style and sets the mood with its sensual breathy vocals and trippy ambience and is lifted towards the end by some soaring synth lines. Marimba Song bubbles on merrily, enhanced by samples to give it an eerie feel at times, whilst Let Me Sleep is harder edged with a fuller atmospheric sound. Coming Down Glass is particularly quirky and hypnotic with its strange synth patterns and whispered vocals over the skittering beat patterns. If You Miss has a more flowing, symphonic feel and lilting beat as if it were to serve as soundtrack to some art movie. Red River has a harder mix again with a nervous beat and some discordant passages. There are echoes here of various forms of electro and also the late 1970s UK band Flying Lizards. But overall Silver Apples is a very unique musical vision and a brave path to pursue. It is certainly an acquired taste though, and takes some time to appreciate the subtler nuances of the music. Real rating: Three and a half stars.

3 out of 5 stars Good mood music but . . ........2000-06-16

Judging from reviews on Amazon.com I guess 2 or 300 classics are being released each year. Every album should have at least one qualifing voice, but I guess people indiffent to a cd aren't likely to have the inspiration to write . . .

Anyhoo, I guess Laika is what all the enthusiastic reviewers say they are, but the songs are also repetitive and, after a while, blend together too much. Although ever track is solid, I don't find Silver Apples to be a thoroughly engaging listen. Despite all the melding of divergent styles and a unique synthesis, this album is very polished--too much so.

Comparisons to My Bloody Valentine may be apt, but only to a point. First, there's no guitar here. Second, the voices are less interesting. Third, the melodies--well, neither band is much on melody, but MBV is melodic in spite of themselves and in spite of emphasis on repeated sounds. Plus MBV have a lot of variety to their sounds/songs.

Laika does get into some excellent grooves, and the music in virtually every song has excellent moments (the singing just doesn't do it for me). See especially If you Miss, Honey in Heat, and Spider Happy Hour (everyone seems to have different pix for best songs on this album). My favorite track, however, is the terse Itchy & Scratchy (57 seconds) which creates an amazing atmosphere with only a bass sound, cymbals, and another electonic rythm sound. Yes, like My Bloody Valentine, Laika does produce sounds that defy the instruments involved.

5 out of 5 stars OUTER SPACE, INNER CITY.......2000-03-23

From Moonshake came Laika. It was a natural birth, Moonshake splitting into two camps; David Callahan pursuing Moonshake's darker, noirish jazzy-pop vision; Margaret Fiedler taking Laika downtown on a rocket ship bound for the stars.

"Silver Apples of the Moon" blows into the room from your stereo speakers with "Sugar Daddy," a rushy, sticky, swoony collision of outer space and inner city atmospheres, and continues with the spazzy, jazzy "Marimba Song" and its sexy hook: "butter and honey and milk and water, milk and water...". Flutes glissando, marimbas rattle, guitars skronk, bongos shake. "Red River" fumes and boils. "Spider Happy Hour" lounges playfully. "If You Miss" cools down the tempo a little and floats you on gently percolating clouds of organic electronica.

Sandwiched in between, like glue on an Erector Set, is Margaret Fiedler's sexy, spooky whisper making nursery rhymes out of often scary subjects: domestic violence ("Let Me Sleep"), stalkers ("Coming Down Glass"), and female sexuality ("I'm Honey in heat with nothing to do, 'cept wait around for mutts like you..."). Margaret has a way of giving things her own spin, though. She gets inside the stalker's head on "Glass" ("Them trashy types just outta milk teeth keep bluffing me with their big girly eyes..."), and "44 Robbers" is a jokey female-empowerment rap ("I'm just happy here on my own; don't need Hulk Hogan to bring me home").

Laika will get into your memorybank and stick there like gum in a zipdrive. If you dig this stuff, check out Moonshake's first two albums ("Eva Luna" and "Big Good Angel")--just a little more of this'n'that and this'n'that.

5 out of 5 stars Stone Roses + My Bloody Valentine + Garbage - guitars.......2000-03-21

That's a shallow but - to the layman - fair breakdown of Laika's deep, dark, groovy, fuzzy, jazzy sonic moonscape. Complex, driving rhythms take center stage here, with exotic percussion and flute combined with soulful electronica (if there is such a thing) adding a great manic texture. Vocalist Margaret Fielder's sexy whisper of a voice is reminiscent of Shirley Manson in a spooky mood.

Great music to work to, great to drive to, great to tune out to. But listen to the samples and make up your own mind!
Silver Apples of the Moon
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Weirdly hypnotic percussive textures
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ASIN: B00000E9R5
Release Date: 1995-03-28

Tracks:

  1. Sugar Daddy
  2. Marimba Song
  3. Let Me Sleep
  4. Itchy and Scratchy
  5. Coming Down Glass
  6. If You Miss
  7. 44 Robbers
  8. Red River
  9. Honey in Heat
  10. Thomas
  11. Spider Happy Hour

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Weirdly hypnotic percussive textures.......2006-06-11


Innovative percussion rules on Silver Apples Of The Moon, a brave experiment from a remarkable band. Sugar Daddy opens the album in rhythmic style and sets the mood with its sensual breathy vocals and trippy ambience and is lifted towards the end by some soaring synth lines.

Marimba Song bubbles on merrily, enhanced by samples to give it an eerie feel at times, whilst Let Me Sleep is harder edged with a fuller atmospheric sound. Coming Down Glass is particularly quirky and hypnotic with its strange synth patterns and whispered vocals over the skittering beat patterns.

If You Miss has a more flowing, symphonic feel and lilting beat as if it were to serve as soundtrack to some art movie. Red River has a harder mix again with a nervous beat and some discordant passages. There are echoes here of various forms of electro and also the late 1970s UK band Flying Lizards. But overall Silver Apples is a very unique musical vision and a brave path to pursue. It is certainly an acquired taste though, and takes some time to appreciate the subtler nuances of the music. Real rating: Three and a half stars.
Silver Apples of the Moon
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • the album that pulled me into celtic music
  • Golden Apples of the Sun
  • beautiful
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ASIN: B000003JLS
Release Date: 1994-05-05

Tracks:

  1. Arise and Dress Yourself
  2. Scottish Reel Set: Sir Davidson/Sma' Coals for Nailers/Jack Broke da Pr
  3. Killarney Boys of Pleasure/Oro 'Se Do Bheatha 'Bhaile
  4. Rockin' the Cradle
  5. Flowing Tide/New Claret
  6. Song of Wandering Aengus
  7. Far Away
  8. They Grey Cock
  9. Dr. John Stafford/Constantine Maguire
  10. Polska Set
  11. Plain Girl's Lament
  12. Death of Queen Jane
  13. Lias Laddie

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars the album that pulled me into celtic music.......2006-11-28

This is quite possibly my all time favorite album. A combination of vocal and instrumental pieces, the music is both soothing and uplifting.

5 out of 5 stars Golden Apples of the Sun.......2002-04-13

Ceoltoiri is a group of Irish musicians; Connie McKenna, Sue Richards and Karen Ashbrook. These three women, along with a number of guest musicians have put together a CD of music that is a combination of the traditional and new arrangements of mostly Irish/Gaelic jigs, reels and ballads. For any Irish music lover, this is a must-hear collection. Strong and haunting vocals, a variety of traditional instruments (celtic harp, hammered dulcimer, penny whistle, bodhran, and fiddle to name a few), and wonderful songsýsome of them familiar, some of them more unusual.

The vocal music is my favorite part of this album. My favorites include #1. Arise and Dress Yourself; this is an Irish Gaelic song, where a suitor begs his lover to wake and cut her hair. #6. Son of Wandering Aengus is the famous poem by William Butler Yeats that inspired the title for this album. #11 The Plain Girlýs Lament; a wonderful example of sean nos (ýold waysý) style singing performed a capella by Connie McKenna. The instrumentals are well done and interspersed between the vocals to provide the listener with a good balance. My particular favorite is #10 Polska Set.

This is a great CD for when you want to really listen to the music. Iýve found it hard to have as background music because Iýll start paying attention to the lyrics, and the mood shifts from selection to selection. Perfect for anyone interested in Irish music, culture and tradition. The liner notes offer a brief paragraph on each song, explaining the origins of the lyrics and the music and what traditions, if any are behind each particular May you enjoy.

Happy Listening!

shanshad ^_^

5 out of 5 stars beautiful.......2000-05-12

I started listening to Celtic music over 20 years ago when I found the Chieftains. I now have over 60 C.D.'s of assorted Celtic ,including Nightnoise, Altan, Mary Black, etc........I have all three Ceoltoiri albums and its hard to choose a favorite ! Far Away and The Polska Set are excellent...The Death of Queen Jane wonderful too!
Silver Apples of the Moon
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    		Silver Apples of the Moon
    Laika
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000024ERR
    Release Date: 2007-06-19

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    Silver Apples of the Moon
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      Manufacturer: Black Box Classics
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      Release Date: 1998-11-03
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        Manufacturer: Marco Polo
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00002S5E5
        Release Date: 1999-11-30

        Tracks:

        1. Three Prlds: The Cloths Of Heaven
        2. Three Prlds: Like Ghosts From An Enchanter Fleeing
        3. Three Prlds: Jim Singing
        4. And Wake The Purple Year
        5. Three Lullabies For Deirdre: Floating Gently
        6. Three Lullabies For Deirdre: Dreamily
        7. Three Lullabies For Deirdre: Gently Rocking
        8. The Silver Apples Of The Moon, The Golden Apples Of The Sun
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        Silver Apples of the Moon
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          Manufacturer: Black Box Classics
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00000DAP1
          Release Date: 1997-01-01
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            ASIN: B00000K2I4
            Release Date: 1996-01-01

            Tracks:

            1. The scene of pale blue (part 1)
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