Celtic 3-Runrig, Sharon Shannon, Christy Moore, Christine Primrose, East of Eden EAC FLAC

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This is the third and final part of collections of straight Celtic music albums. This contains the FULL album of Christine Primrose, that on collection 2 somehow (? how, EAC is supposed to be an exact copy!!) only had the first 45 seconds of each track.

The other two collections can be found here

https://kat.cr/celtic-albums...-etc-eac-flac-t11536216.html

https://kat.cr/celtic-2-albu...n-whelan-flac-t11539980.html

Also, six albums by Clannad and solo founding member Maire Brennan can be found here
https://kat.cr/clannad-magic...nnan-eac-flac-t11508200.html

Details of this collection are

Christine Primrose
Christine Primrose has been singing since early childhood, with Gaelic as her first language. She too won the National Mod in 1974, and the Pan Celtic Festival in Killarney in 1978. As a result of the success of Aite Mo Ghaoil, Primrose has toured both Canada and the USA, as well as Europe, taking her voice and Gaelic language to a wide audience. In the new millennium Primrose was teaching Gaelic singing at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig a Gaelic college on the Isle Of Skye.
Released in 1987, this is the second album from the great Gaelic singer Christine Primrose. It was welcomed by her many admirers and, equally importantly, it introduced many more to the living tradition of the Scottish Gael. She endows these songs with a strength and magnificence that communicates at once even if you dont understand a word of Gaelic.

'S Tu Nam Chuimhne ('...and you on my mind') features both unaccompanied and accompanied songs featuring fiddle, harp, saxophone, trumpet, keyboards, whistles, small pipes, with contributions from artists including Alison Kinnaird, Brian McNeill, Duncan MacGillivray, Dick Lee, Alan Reid and Dougie Pincock.

"This is as good an introduction to the living tradition of Scottish Gaelic song as any, the adventurousness of the recording meriting the wider recognition outside the Gaelic heartland that it will surely get."
FOLK ROOTS

" ... sung with such power and simplicity that they transcend both prejudice and language ... a beautifully unhappy record"
Q15

Runrig-Mara
Runrig are a Scottish Celtic rock group formed in Skye, in 1973 under the name 'The Run Rig Dance Band'. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included songwriters Rory Macdonald and Calum Macdonald. The current line-up also includes longtime members Malcolm Jones, Iain Bayne, and more recently, Bruce Guthro, and Brian Hurren. To date, the band has released thirteen studio albums, with a number of their songs sung in Scottish Gaelic.
Initially formed as a three-piece dance band, which played wedding receptions, the trio's first performance took place at Kelvin Hall, in Glasgow.[1]
Runrig's music is often described as a blend of folk and rock music, with the band's lyrics often focusing upon locations, history, politics and people that are unique to Scotland. Songs also make references to agriculture and land conservation.
Since 1999, the band has gained attention in Canada, following Nova Scotian singer Bruce Guthro's entry to the band.
Yes, that's how this album makes you feel. Sonorous bursts of vocals and stirring melodies litter this most impressive of Runrig albums. Seldom does an album stir the emotions of loving the elements more than this. Bagpipes break out into blue skies and then overcast orchestras evoke the crashing of the sea, ancient mariners travelling the mighty atlantic, chorals wash over the beach like a fantastic day on Iona. It's almost cinematic in scope but totally thrilling and melodious in the extreme. I could convert to being Scottish listening to this brilliant album. Buy it - you won't be disappointed!

Sharon Shannon-Sharon Shannon
.Sharon Shannon (born 12 November 1968 in Ruan, County Clare) is an Irish musician. She is best known for her work with the accordion and for her fiddle technique. She also plays the tin whistle and melodeon. Her 1991 album Sharon Shannon is the best selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there[1]. Beginning with Irish folk music, her work demonstrates a wide-ranging number of musical influences, including reggae, cajun music, Portuguese music, and French Canadian music. Her single What You Make It (da, da, da, da) featured hip hop music artists. She won the lifetime achievement award at the 2009 Meteor Awards.
Her 1991 album Sharon Shannon is the best selling album of traditional Irish music ever released there.
Sharon Shannon is one of the most phenomenal players to come out of Ireland in recent times. Her accordion playing is without par. This, her first album, may be her best. It's certainly the closest to pure traditional music that she's come out with.
She does an excellent job of combining many sorts of traditional music, such as playing the cajun tune "The Happy One-Step" with a traditional Irish slide. One of the album's highlights is the spirited rendition of "Tune for a Found Harmonium" written by Simon Jeffes, for the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. After Sharon played this tune, it was picked up by many other traditional players, being recorded by Patrick Street, for example.
There's no bad track on this album. Pick it up, and you'll find it difficult not to fall in love with Sharon's accordion playing.

Christy Moore-Prosperous
Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (born 7 May 1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.
1972 brought his first major release, Prosperous, which brought together the four musicians who shortly thereafter formed Planxty: Liam O'Flynn, Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny. For a time they called themselves "CLAD", an acronym of their names, but soon decided on Planxty.

Prosperous is the second album by Irish folk musician Christy Moore, released in 1972. His first album, Paddy On The Road, was recorded by Dominic Behan in 1969 and has long been out of print. In addition to Moore's guitar and voice, Prosperous featured musicians Andy Irvine (mandolin, mouth organ), Liam Óg O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle) and Dónal Lunny (guitar, bouzouki). These four musicians later gave themselves the name Planxty, making this album something of the first Planxty album in all but name. Other musicians included Kevin Conneff (later of The Chieftains) on bodhrán, Clive Collins on fiddle, and Dave Bland on concertina.
The album takes its name from the house and town of Prosperous, County Kildare, where it was recorded by producer Bill Leader in the summer of 1971.[1]:86-91 The house (featured on the front cover of the album) is owned by Dr Andrew Rynne, surgeon and medical practitioner and founder of Clane General Hospital in Co Kildare.
The majority of the songs on the album are traditional, with the exception of "James Connolly" by established folk singer Patrick Galvin, "Tribute to Woody" (about Woody Guthrie) by Bob Dylan (originally titled "Song to Woody"), "The Ludlow Massacre", by Guthrie, "A Letter to Syracuse" by English folksingers Dave Cartwright and Bill Caddick, and "I Wish I Was In England", an early composition by Moore, who would go on to establish himself as a significant songwriter of Irish music. The album opens with a medley of the traditional song "The Raggle Taggle Gipsies" and the harp tune "Tabhair dom do Lámh", which would be the opening track of Planxty's self-titled album released the following year.

East of Eden-Jig a Jig
East of Eden was a British progressive rock band, who had a Top 10 hit in the UK with the single, "Jig-a-Jig", in 1971.[1] The track was stylistically unlike any of their other work .[2] Although some might consider this group as being a symphonic progressive band, others state that their style is mostly jazz oriented.[2] Combining flutes, violins and tape loops to folk, gypsy and psychedelic music, the East of Eden style was always heavily supported on a pure rock base; strong and experimental.
I believe that "Jig-a-Jig" is a unique album, and probably East of Eden's best album...it is more musically "dense" than their equally amazing "Snafu" album; the first song, "Jig-a- Jig", appears to be starting as a lively- but a bit shy!- Celtic song, which later on spreads its wings and starts flying over vast and open fields of colourful, dense and funky music!!! "Jig-aJig", together with "Gum Arabic" - a very smooth and free-flowing composition indeed!- and "Confucius", really awaken one's senses, making one realise that a proper 1970's band, which features 5 proper and talented musicians, is more than able to produce high-quality music which feeds one's soul and gently caresses one's aura..."Jig-aJig" is a trully rare 1970's musical jewel