A Musical Voyage with Clear Charts and Beautiful Destinations

It is remarkable that an anthology can be as homogeneous as this. The nine acts represented hereon seem to see eye-to-eye on the foundational aspects of their chosen musical form. This is a tribute to the strength of the Celtic tradition.

Like the songlines used as musical maps by Australian aborigines, these pieces contain detailed, graphic descriptions and stories in the music itself, with no words required. The deeper drums, for example, serve not only to keep time, but to indicate its passing.

One is reminded of the legend of how a new tywysog was chosen in the ancient Welsh kingdom of Powgwynllyywnioc. First, the old tywysog died. And then a certain drum beat. Then the five most beautiful women and the five most well-endowed men in all of Powgwynllyywnioc, which was not actually large enough to have suburbs or anything like that, but was of respectable size for a Welsh kingdom of the legendary period, were positioned facing each other in two rows at the gate to the kingdom’s capital city. And then the drum beat again.

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