Atlantic Driftwood
Artist: Norland Wind, Thomas Loefke
Label: Alula Records
UPC: 616498102821
Catalog ID: ALU 1028
There’s Celtic music, and there’s Celtoid music, an uneasy mix of traditional and new age (with or without electronics). While this disc sets foot in the former camp several times, its real lack of roots means that it really ends up in the latter. The musicianship can’t be faulted, although some of the lyrics, as in Loefke’s own “Maplewood and Strawberries,” are the kind of thing to induce retches in the strongest stomachs. It’s polite, as drifting as any North Atlantic tide, and while the hearts of all those involved might be in the right place, the end result just doesn’t cut it.
Track Listing
The Snowy Birch Trees
4:09
Let Your Arrow Fly
4:50
Atlantic Driftwood
2:49
Waulking Song
2:59
The Seals of Port Na Glass
3:23
Pos An Piobaire
3:40
Her Dancing Feet Do Gently Kiss the Ground
2:41
An Raibg Tu Ar An Gcarraig
3:13
Oro / Se Do Bheatha Bhaile
4:26
Mcphisto's Jig
2:57
The Memory of May
3:33
Don Oiche Ud I Mbeithil
2:19
Stephen's Day Session
3:20
An Saughdiuir Treigthe
3:50
Kitty Douglas Hamilton
2:51
Maplewood And Strawberries
3:46
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