Secret People (album)

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Secret People
Secret People Capercaillie Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by
Capercaillie
Released1993
Genre Folk rock
Label Green Linnet
Producer Dónal Lunny and Calum Malcolm
Capercaillie chronology
Get Out
(1992)		Secret People
(1993)		Capercaillie
(1994)
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Secret People is the fifth studio album by folk rock band Capercaillie. It reached number 40 in the UK album charts. It was re-released in North America by Valley Entertainment in 2003. [2]

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format widely used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds—several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles—attempted to blend the sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.

Capercaillie (band) Scottish folk band

Capercaillie is a Scottish folk band that was founded in the 1980s by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson. Capercaillie performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary English songs. The group adapts traditional Gaelic music and traditional lyrics with modern production techniques and instruments such as electric guitar and bass guitar, though rarely synthesizers or drum machines.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bonaparte" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 4:43
  2. "Grace and Pride" (Manus Lunny) – 5:12
  3. "Tobar Mhoire (Tobermory)" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 3:48
  4. "Four Stone Walls" (John Saich) – 3:16
  5. "Crime of Passion" (Donald Shaw) – 4:58
  6. "The Whinney Hills Jigs" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 6:10
  7. "An Eala Bhàn (The White Swan)" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 5:30
  8. "Seice Ruairidh (Roddy's Drum)" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 4:24
  9. "Stinging Rain" (M. Lunny) – 4:50
  10. "Hi Rim Bo" (Trad. Arr. Capercaillie) – 3:34
  11. "The Miracle of Being" (Shaw) – 6:12
  12. "The Harley Ashtray" (Charlie McKerron/Marc Duff) – 4:06
  13. "Oran" (Words: Aonghas MacNeacail Music: Shaw) – 2:24
  14. "Black Fields" (John Saich) – 4:33

Credits

Karen Matheson British singer

Karen Matheson OBE is a Scottish folk singer who frequently sings in Gaelic. She is the lead singer of the group Capercaillie and was a member of Dan Ar Braz's group L'Héritage des Celtes, with whom she often sang lead vocals, either alone or with Elaine Morgan. She and Morgan sang together on the Breton language song "Diwanit Bugale", the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996. She made a cameo appearance in the 1995 movie Rob Roy singing the song "Ailein duinn".

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Fiddle musical instrument

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Secret People". Valley Entertainment. Retrieved 29 June 2010.


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