Carrowkeel Cairns : mainly summer solstice sunset

[celticways]

Claire wrote this when she was 15 years old as a reflection of riding a horse over Three Rock Mountain outside Dublin, a much less developed place then. She wrote and recorded her thoughts, mainly improvised, on a Sony 2 track reel to reel when she came home. This track is that original recording with a front vocal track added 40 years later but the vocal and piano backing is still Claire at 15 years old.

[Padraigob]

Sounds a bit like a mad canary to me! Aimless lyrics, kate Bush voice. Pity.

[jgilgun]

@Padraigob I wonder why some people make gratuitous cruel comments

[celticways]

Maybe I should say Claire usually accompanies herself on harp. With this, the piano and echoed backing vocal was recorded on a Sony 2 track wen Claire was 15 years old. The top vocal track  when she was 55 years old, 40 years later !!!

[celticways]

Would love to repost using another medium, this was done with Google/YouTube's own Picasa but it does seem to crunch up the sound. Maybe awhile as where i live the internet upload is so slow, up to 10 hours per minute upload of movie !!!

[somoshijosdelaluz]

Oh, my God, friends of Celticways! This music is a touch of heaven (I'll tell Claire that)! But, please: post it again because the CD is interrupted a couple of times. Thank you from the heart for your contribution to spread worldwide these treasures (mostly from Claire)! God bless you.

José Francisco Flores de la O (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

[marinagraham]

I think this is amazing. Both the song and the photos are intensely powerful.

I love the rows of golden squares of sunlight. What an artwork!

[celticways]

I live here too and so does this singer, a place that is a joy for many of us here to visit. Much of the time we visit it is quiet here

[Goetterhand]

Grüße aus der Oberlausitz!

Stonehenge in Saxony