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Blends Nicely Wilh Lhe Song 6 by his vigorous "Hobgoblin Reel"; his dreamy air "Elgol" blends nicely wiLh Lhe song "Dream Angus" (credited as traditional). Kirk's song "MacDonell of Barrisdale" (featuredin LheBULLImN, 22:1, p. 4) is a fine slice of Scottishhistory which would not be out of place in Lherepertoires of Scotland's top folk groups. Bettergive Lhisone a listen, lads! Jim Stephensas comlX>sercontributes a pleasantjig "The Scotsmanon the Loose", and his playing on ham- mereddulcimer, bouzouki,tenor banjo and tin whistle is A POTPOURRI OF CANADIAN not to be faulted.(I guessthe hammereddulcimer stands "CEL TIC" RECORDINGS out for me becauseso few people master it.) Renee Morin fils the synthesizerinto traditional-soundingmu- sic as well as anybodyI've heard it's never tasteless or "Celtic" is in quotes for a reason.Despite being a - "much-misusedphrase",. in Canadatoday it's a handy gimmicky. term to describegroups who play mostly in the style of Only one track is overtly Canadian:fittingly, a set of British revival groups, even if some of their music doesn't come from Ireland or Scotland or Wales or Querec tunes, "Quebecois Reel/Reel de Chicou- timi/Gigue de Terrebonne", with assertive hammered Cornwall or Brittany (or Cumberland or Galatia or dulcimer taking the lead. The Scottish material will not Galicia, for that matter). So I hope we understandeach be unfamiliar to fans of that genre, but none of it has other when I speakof "CanadianCeltic music" - please. been done to death. and the interpretationsare fresh. It no outragedletters. includessongs by Burns, "Ca the Yowes" and "Soldier's None of these recordings is particularly recent. In Return", and tunes "Sleepy Maggie", "lohn MacKen- some cases the groups may not even be still extant. zie's Fancy", "York Reel" and "Calum and the Princess". However, their music does not have built.in obsoles- cence, the recordingsnever had wide distribution, and Orealis's secondrecording has since been released they're all still availablethrough our Mail Order Service. but hasn't reachedus yet; we hope to re able to tell you Each has something special in the way of a newly- aboutit soon. written song with an historical flavour. So our readers deserve10 know more aboutthem. UNDER THE MOSS, Raking the Coals, Orca OR 001. 3737Oak St., Vancouver,B.C. V6H 2M4. OREAUS, Orealis UR-4-56. 3861 Hotel de Ville, Montreal,QC H2W 206. This is a record which I listen to over and over despitesome features which are not to my taste but are A Scottish lead singer, an English-Canadianmulti- likely strengthsfor others. instrumentalist and a queb&:oise synthesizer player. Where elsewould that son of group be put togetherbut Let's get the negativesout of the way, for starters. in Montreal? Let's hope all cultural blcndings work as This is a West Coastgroup, so they haveto be eclectic- well as this one! it's in their birth certificatesand the air they breathe.So we get a muddy, unfocussedinstrumental called "Mus- Almost all the music, even that written by the band cular Hoof' to end the album,leaving us with an impres- members,has a Scottishflavour. Kirk MacGeachyputs a sion of not muchof anything.Bener to [mish with some- dandy tune to "Glasgow Peggy" (Child 228), followed thing tight and strong! We also get a mediocre song called "Anyway [sic] the Wind Blows". John Hough . William A.S. Sarjeant, "Two Recordings of Traditional singsit well, but haslittle but clichesto work with. Music from Saskatchewan",BULLFnN, 21:1, March 1987, p. 40. Speakingof John Hough, he sings lead on all the 7 songs and has the most distinctive voice J've heard this well, and the boys don't let us down. side of Stan Rogers! For me, this flavour gets in the way on traditional material such as "Fhir a Bhata", "Star of As for the original songs,it was a treat for me to find the County Down" and "A La Claire Fontaine", but anothersong about Canada's pioneer steamboats, a topic leaves me wanting to hear more. J hear that John has left on which I've written myself (BULLETIN, 18:4, Dec- the group since this record was made - anyone know ember 1984, p. 11). Bob Farmer's "The S.S. Minto", what he's doing now and where he can be heard? about a steamerwhich plied the Arrow Lakes in the old days,gives the album a good strong stan. Unfonunately The song which best suits John's voice is written by it's followed by a weak instrumental, "The Blarney anotherband member, Patrick Smith. It's "Gold-Dust", Pilgrirn/Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife". Great tunes, the tale of B.C.'s famous train robber, Bill Miner. but the mandolin lead falls down on the executionend. Devoteesof the classic western film "The Gray Fox" More time in the studio was needed - I'm afraid the band will appreciatethis other slant on the outlaw's career- settled for less on this one. But "Smokin' " Pete Kerr and it's a good strongtune in its own right. lives up to his nickname on fiddle on a trio of reels, "Reconciliation Reelffimour the Tarter/Big John Mc- Victor Smith contributesthe instrumental"Raking the Neil", and blends beautifully with Garth Vickers' flulc Coals", which gives the album its name. For me the on "Fanny Po'er". Garth does lovely double-tracked instrumentalsstand out in general:mostly Irish, mostly whistle on the "aire" "For Ireland I Won't Say her lively, except for "Suefiosde Angelita", sweetly played Name", which the band follows with spirited reels, on the harp by SusanScott. The fourth group member, "Loch LavenCastle/Sleep Soon [sic] In The Morning". Patrick Smith, plays lots of instruments,and ably; in fact nobody, including four guest musicians, puts a foot The other original song included is John McIntyre's wrong instrumentally. "2-4-0 Blues". A topical song concerningusing toxic chemicalsto try to eradicatewater weedsin Okanagan In sum: an intriguing mixture in which I expectmost Lake, it's raggy and fun, but with a sting in its tail. John listemerswill find lots to like. wrote an ecologicalsong before ecology got trendy, and his name goes down on some list of pioneers some- MULLINGAR, Whale Oil Music WRCI-4843. Box where. 1698,Sta. A, Kelowna.B.C. VI Y 8M3. Forget the imperfections- the album has some great Mullingar, housebandof the Kelowna Folk Club for moments. many years, started out as a pub band, and make no bonesabout it: they include several"old favourites"such John Leeder as"Mary Mac", "The Overlander",'The Dutchman"and "Will Y e Go LassieGo" on their album.I for one would have liked to seethe spacegiven to freshermaterial, but let's not be too harsh. Songsget done to death because they're good songsthat effectively say somethingto a lot of people.Cliches becomecliches becausethey're true. And there are lots of peopleout thereto whom theseold standbysare new andwonderful. But don't get the idea that it's all chestnutshere. Mullingar includes a couple of original songs, and as well the group were the first, to my knowledge,to record Stan Rogers' material after his death. They deserve credit for not being intimidated by the canonization movement- Stan's work should be in people's mouths as well as their hearts and museum cases."Barrett's Privateers"is such a strong song that it's easy to sing B DOUG McARTHUR with GARNET ROGERS: McArthur, and he uses them quite effectively on "Isle Snow Goose SGS-I 1 16C. Madelaine",a wahz accompaniedonly by acousticguitar and fiddle. The playing is excellentand the instrumental Doug McArthur's new album with GarnetRogers is a tracksare beautifully positionedaround the vocal in lush, very creditableeffort. The picking is always craftsman- spacious reverb. Slick enough for downtown! And like, and occasionallyinspired. The songwriling, while darned if Doug didn't write an appealingmelody, too. never memorablymelodic, is generallydense and mus- The title is a little confusing,though. The liner note says cular lyrically. And the whole businessis beautifully the tunewas inspiredby campfirestories heard during an recorded. island-hopping voyage off Nova Scotia, and Doug pronouncesthe name as "Isle Madeleine",or one of the The set openswith a sly speculationon what would MagdalenIslands off CapeBreton. But if that's the place happen if an excavation for a new shopping mall in he means,then the title is only the most obvious of the England were to unearth the crypt where Merlin the embarrassingly frequent typos and incorrect lyrics magicianhas been slowly recoveringfrom his woundsat throughout these liner notes. Mercifully, no one is the handsof King Arthur, waiting for the day the nation credited for the jacket design, but the folks at Snow neededa powerful wizard to spring forth and save her. Goose Songs and Valerie Enterprisesought to realize Merlin meditatesin punchy, almost cinematic images that even your averageGuns 'n' Rosesalbum contains which easily sustainrepeated listenings. The lyrics are cleanercopy than this. perfectly couchedin a lovely, layeredstring chart with a successfullymedieval-sounding guitar-synth hook and In "The Siege of Toronto" McArthur takes a stab at lots of spacey,pitch-bending little ornaments.It's per- expressingthe big-time paranoia he observed in the haps a minor blemish that the string tracks raggedly security measuressuITounding the G7 economic con- continuejust far enoughpast the logical end of the tune ference held in Toronto in 1988. He was expecting to makeyou think Rogersthe musicianmomentarily got maybe a Shriners' convention? Forget this song. The the best of the otherwisegood judgment of Rogersthe two- sentenceliner note expressesthe idea about as well producer.This could have been easily fixed in the mix, as the lyrics do.
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