10.12.07
New tracks by KGB added
I’ve just added 18 tracks by the Seattle based Contra group: KGB. From their Website:
No security clearances are required to enjoy Seattle’s KGB. With fiddle, mandolin, guitar and piano, KGB creates subversive music, lulling the unwary with traditional New England contradance tunes, then jumping off into Balkan modalities, tango riffs and bluesy jigs. Claude slides from growling grooves to impossible high notes on the fiddle. Dave creates percussive energy and dazzling riffs on anything with strings. Julie explores the emotional range of the keyboard from majestic to down and dirty.
And yes, in order to keep with the alleged premise of this station, they do have the occasional Irish jig, and some music termed “Baltic Celtic”.
Three CDs are featured: In from the Cold, Volga Notions, and Contra Intelligence. All available from CD Baby.
You can visit their website at www.kgbmole.com
Robb said,
October 17, 2007 at 10:14 pm
I love CM, and have listened off and on for I don’t know how many years (obviously less than 8). Thank you! There are some of my favorite tracks that I have had an impossible time trying to find. They include anything you got from renaissancerecords.biz (since they went bye-bye). I have also never been able to find ANYWHERE on the web Darby O’Gill. I would love to get that album. In short, is there ANYwhere that I can obtain those tracks???
Thx!
celticmelt said,
October 18, 2007 at 10:41 am
Hi Robb, I didn’t know that Renaissancerecords went TU. About Darby O’Gill, I think I got that from a promoter in England. However I just checked Amazon, and see at least one of their CDs available. I am also checking CDBaby, but their database is down right now.
A lot of the really obscure tracks came from the old mp3.com site, a great place for harvesting indie tracks the artists made available for free. I
Cheers
Robb said,
October 18, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Cheers! I really appreciate it. I don’t know why I couldn’t find it on Amazon before. When the songs would come up, I’d click on “Buy” and I’d be directed to everything but Darby.
Thanks again! BTW, I’m in TX and contacted both of my Senators a while back about the royalty issue and Cornyn for sure supports us. When I called Hutchison, she was still studying the issue and so I logged a vote for it with her office.
BTW2- I’m starting my own blog on our local talk radio site and it should be up next week. http://www.590klbj.com (It’ll be called “Science, He Wrote”
and will examine science issues in layspeak.
Robb
John F said,
November 20, 2007 at 12:21 am
Great music, as I have already said, and you might also enjoy (and consider) this too: http://www.horizonwestmusic.com/celtic.html (Vancouver, Canada). Everything I have heard from them has been first class.
John
John Farrer said,
December 23, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Some tracks you might like and find a worthwhile addition:
http://coaststringfiddlers.com/the-coast-string-fiddlers-store/
When they finish their performances with their version of “Highland Cathedral” there is barely a dry eye in the house.
http://www.delhi2dublin.com/
an interesting fusion of Celtic and Punjabi styles with a lot of other influences thrown in - from Vancouver, Canada.
John
celticmelt said,
December 26, 2007 at 10:33 am
Thanks John, I’ll take a look at those. Delhi2Dublin sounds really run. I love Bollywood muscals, and have seen Scottish/English numbers (including Morris dancing!) done in them, so this is in character.