Kate Price - Andalusia!

The track "Andalusia" is taken from Kate Price's great and excellent recorded Album "Isle Of Dreaming" (2000). At the heart of the contemporary Celtic revival dwells soul of Kate Price. A talented multi instrumentalist with a rich and beautiful voice, Kate continues to defy the very genre her early work helped define. Her music is as much a journey for her as for the listener. Her repertoire blends cross cultural influences with her lyrical voice and her dynamic yet intimate sensibility.

Often compared to Canada's Loreena McKennitt, Kate Price is America's premier celtic vocalist. Her innovative musical style is known as "Celtic World Music". She introduces exotic rhythms to traditional joyous Celtic melodies creating refreshingly different music with international appeal. Price's rich, compelling voice is accompanied by the hammer dulcimer ­ an ancient stringed instrument along with piano, guitar, violin, pennywhistle, bass, English horn, and cittern for a passionate collection celebrating her own Celtic heritage.

What Kate began on "Deep Heart's Core", she completed with the "Isle of Dreaming", but this time with an Indo-Persian influence overlaying the Celtic foundation. It is an exquisite and multifaceted recording of great depth and tenderness, and it just gets better with repeated listening. Also co-produced by Teja Bell, this recording succeeded in melding diverse influences into a cohesive and exemplary musical vision.

Listen and enjoy it.

** Musicians **
Kate Price: Vocals, Hammered Dulcimer, Hummel, Harmonium
Teja Bell: Classical Steel String, 12 String & Bass Guitars, Keyboards, Electric Sitar
Ian Dogole: Handrums, Udu, Dumbek, Cymbals
Doug Harman: Cello
Hans Christian: Nickelharpa, Sarongi
Paul McCandless: Oboe, English Horn, Penny Whistle, Saxophone
Spencer Brewer: Piano
Chris Caswell (C2): Irish Flute, Penny Whistle (on Beloved)
Bonnie Barnum (B2): Celtic Harp
Habib Khan: Sitar
Ben Mawhorter: Tabla
Zahar Hayati: Zylis
James Asher: Shaker

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[clickright]

I don't hear any real Andalusian tunes , and the Indo-Persian pics has nothing to do with Andalusia, a work of somebody who haven't a slightest idea about Andalusian Music & culture & History

[tiad]

@clickright: The title of the Track is "Andalusia". And I used pictures which I find suitable for the melody. A music has no boundaries. So I have not to use pictures from Andalusia to assist this kind of music. I do not have to use pictures from Lappland, Norway etc. when I make a clip to Music from Jan Garbarek ....

[FrescaNebbiaSulMare]

However, the Umayyad dynasty, who retired in El-Andalus after the rise to power of the Abbasid caliphs, it created a splendid civilization in Spain: a multiethnic, sophisticated civilization that can compare to the splendor of the civilization of the Abbasid Baghdad...

In this piece of music, which fuses different spirits, we can have a little symbol to remember this...

[TheGockelgorski]

Amazing..

[Wolkenesser]

@clickright depp

[believerwoman]

beautiful...



[musicmanning]

Hello Kate

I was wondering what make your dulcimer is or is it James Ashers?

[yashil17]

@tiad

@tiad

Your theory depends, if Andalusian are related with arabs, then it is greatly offensive to Persians, for they invaded Iran/Persian and destroyed them. It is like putting nazi music and putting Jewish historical pictures, or putting American historical music and putting pics of slavery and all the negative stuff of America,etc. i understand what you mean by music and imagination

[yashil17]

@clickright

most of the pics where indian rather than Persian

[Sinan97082]

@tiad right... everybody feels different ... for me ... this really remembers me on a day out in turkey at the beachside or in old istanbul at seaside... has also hardly to do with andalusia ;) just a stuff of emotions :D

[XxTheMadamXx]

@clickright

LOL.

[evacri13]

Hi Tiad,

where did you get those pictures from?

[heavengurl899]

I can't really buy the fact that "the "spirit" of these images and this music is not entirely alien to the culture of Andalusia" because it just plays into the idea of Orientalism. Mediterranean people and music are no where near the same as Indian people and music. I say this because I'm from the Mediterranean area and my roommate is Indian. It's not really the same spirit.