Cara Dillon - Hill Of Thieves

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Cara Dillon - Hill Of Thieves2009 | 256 vbr mp3 | 58 MBfolk | IrelandTracklist:01. The Hill Of Thieves 04:3002. Johnny, Lovely Johnny 03:2203. The Parting Glass 03:2004. Spencer The Rover 04:0505. False, False 04:0906. Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor 03:5907. She Moved Through The Fair 05:3708. P Stands For Paddy 06:1309. The Verdant Braes Of Skreen 03:5010. The Lash Of Glenshee 03:3611. Fil, Fil A Run O 02:33Mojo"What may well be the world's most beautiful female voice"fRoots"Cara Dillon, is without exaggeration, amongst the very finest to be heard today"After five years experimenting with top rock and pop producers, engineers and songwriters for Warner Music, and six years of carving herself out as a Folk/Pop crossover artist with indie label Rough Trade, Cara Dillon has landed with her seminal recording, 'Hill Of Thieves'.Having watched this artist with interest over the past couple of years, I was interested to see where exactly she was going to go from 2006's hopeful, genre hopping 'After The Morning'. Label letdowns and a lacklustre promotional campaign hindered this record's success, leaving it with an ill-deserved fate as one of those albums that Could Have Been Big.Dillon and her musical partner and husband Sam Lakeman, let down one too many times by industry promises, clearly spent the next couple of years rethinking things and cutting free completely. Now in the driver's seat (on her own label, Charcoal Records), Cara Dillon emerges as a master of her genre with this sublime effort.Each of the eleven songs seem at home in their sonic surroundings - whether this be on a bed of many layers of acoustic guitar (The Hill Of Thieves), between a haunting vocal and harmonic piano overtones (The Parting Glass), or carved out of the silence, acapella (Fil, Fil A Run O). Lakeman's confidence and astute judgement as a producer must not go unnoticed here.Guest vocalist Seth Lakeman is sure to generate extra interest in the album, and he is careful here to duet with his sister-in-law, rather than compete with her, as he seemed to do when part of her live band six years previous. The result of this vocal partnership is the wonderful Spencer The Rover.On finer examinations, slight flaws come to the fore - Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor suffers slightly from overproduction, with an overdose of guitars and mandolin, an intro that recalls the opening of a cheesy children's animation, and harmonies that seem somewhat superfluous. However, there's no denying the interpretation is both cool and relevant, and might have been masterful with the backing of simply one guitar.That being said, this is an album of hits, if traditional songs can be named so. The musicianship is superb, the vocal performance second to none, and above all, the sentiment is heartening: music existed before the industry machine, and as the machine presently crumbles amid the growth of new media technology, real, organic music will survive in this timeless, undated form.The album highlight is undoubtedly The Parting Glass, a reading of an old favourite which has to be heard to be believed. It will now go into the vault with Black Is The Colour and The Streets Of Derry as traditional songs Dillon has rendered untouchable. (Well, that is pretty much a wholly subjective statement, yet I had to say it all the same.)On a final note, the album obviously attempts to awaken some nostalgia for the golden age of Irish folk in the 1970s, with bouzouki/guitar/pipes collaborations to rival the work of Planxty or the legendary pairing of Paul Brady and Andy Irvine. When the album is released in January 2009 it will be down to the folk music community to decide whether the album has some of the magic of those which inspired it or whether it comes off as a sentimental and pale imitation, though I doubt that anyone will settle for the latter. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]