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New Eilidh Mackenzie album - Bel Canto
EILIDH MACKENZIE - Bel Canto
Available from 9 November as a physical CD but available NOW to download track-by-track, or as a whole album, at www.gaelicmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/eilidhmackenzie
Bel canto, beautiful singing, is a term used to describe, in particular, the preferred light, bright quality of Italian opera singers, learned through the mysterious teaching practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ann Patchett, award-winning American author, used the term for her novel “Bel Canto”, published in 2001. Eilidh has taken Patchett’s story, transferred it to Gaelic Scotland and composed 14 original tracks around the narrative themes of love, music, identity, language and communication.
The song cycle follows the tale of an opera diva and her audience members being taken hostage by a group of native terrorists. As the songs and story progress, boundaries become blurred.
The album, recorded by Mark Freegard at 3kyoti studio in Glasgow, boasts a stellar musician line up with Brian McAlpine as pianist, the lynch-pin for the song cycle. Ged Grimes, ex Danny Wilson and now Deacon Blue, provides bass while the string section of Gordon Gunn on fiddle and Christine Hanson on cello complete the core band line up. Instrumental colour is added by Allan Macdonald on moothie and Terry Small on guitar. In addition to Eilidh on vocals, guest singers allude to the characters who mingle in the story and include Michael Marra, Elizabeth MacCormick, James Graham, Anna Meldrum, Eilidh’s sisters Gillian and Fiona ‘Gress’ Mackenzie and Eddi Reader.
The album will be officially launched at a special performance of the music at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness on Wednesday 25 November @ 7.30pm
http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/bel-canto-eilidh-mackenzie
New Eilidh Mackenzie album - Bel Canto
EILIDH MACKENZIE - Bel Canto
Available from 9 November as a physical CD but available NOW to download track-by-track, or as a whole album, at www.gaelicmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/eilidhmackenzie
Bel canto, beautiful singing, is a term used to describe, in particular, the preferred light, bright quality of Italian opera singers, learned through the mysterious teaching practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ann Patchett, award-winning American author, used the term for her novel “Bel Canto”, published in 2001. Eilidh has taken Patchett’s story, transferred it to Gaelic Scotland and composed 14 original tracks around the narrative themes of love, music, identity, language and communication.
The song cycle follows the tale of an opera diva and her audience members being taken hostage by a group of native terrorists. As the songs and story progress, boundaries become blurred.
The album, recorded by Mark Freegard at 3kyoti studio in Glasgow, boasts a stellar musician line up with Brian McAlpine as pianist, the lynch-pin for the song cycle. Ged Grimes, ex Danny Wilson and now Deacon Blue, provides bass while the string section of Gordon Gunn on fiddle and Christine Hanson on cello complete the core band line up. Instrumental colour is added by Allan Macdonald on moothie and Terry Small on guitar. In addition to Eilidh on vocals, guest singers allude to the characters who mingle in the story and include Michael Marra, Elizabeth MacCormick, James Graham, Anna Meldrum, Eilidh’s sisters Gillian and Fiona ‘Gress’ Mackenzie and Eddi Reader.
The album will be officially launched at a special performance of the music at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness on Wednesday 25 November @ 7.30pm
http://www.eden-court.co.uk/whats-on/shows/bel-canto-eilidh-mackenzie
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