Dartmoor ROUNDHOUSE
Just finished listening to "Darmoor Symphony" by Nigel Shaw.
I discovered Nigel Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and Seventh Wave Music over 20 years ago when Seventh Wave Music came up in an internet search for new age music. I listened to some samples and ordered a few albums. Fast forward to about a month ago when I purchased additional CDs from Nigel Shaw, and "Dartmoor Symphony" was one of those CDs.
The second in the trilogy of albums celebrating the Dartmoor landscape. Ancient and delicately beautiful flute songs recorded in our ceremonial roundhouse with wooden flutes carved from the wood of thirteen trees native to these islands. Shaw spent a year creating this album from the carving of the 20 flutes made for these recordings from indigenous Dartmoor woods, to the recording sessions themselves which took place around the roundhouse fire, mostly during the night. Each flute, and the source tree contained within it, sang with a unique voice harboured deep within the grain of the wood. Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and their friends also build a roundhouse for the album using ancient techniques.
Each track is titled after each of the indigenous trees in Dartmoor.
My favorite tracks are: "Scots Pine," "Willow," "Birch," "Alder," "Beech," "Oak," and "Rowan."
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
I discovered Nigel Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and Seventh Wave Music over 20 years ago when Seventh Wave Music came up in an internet search for new age music. I listened to some samples and ordered a few albums. Fast forward to about a month ago when I purchased additional CDs from Nigel Shaw, and "Dartmoor Symphony" was one of those CDs.
The second in the trilogy of albums celebrating the Dartmoor landscape. Ancient and delicately beautiful flute songs recorded in our ceremonial roundhouse with wooden flutes carved from the wood of thirteen trees native to these islands. Shaw spent a year creating this album from the carving of the 20 flutes made for these recordings from indigenous Dartmoor woods, to the recording sessions themselves which took place around the roundhouse fire, mostly during the night. Each flute, and the source tree contained within it, sang with a unique voice harboured deep within the grain of the wood. Shaw, Carolyn Hillyer, and their friends also build a roundhouse for the album using ancient techniques.
Each track is titled after each of the indigenous trees in Dartmoor.
My favorite tracks are: "Scots Pine," "Willow," "Birch," "Alder," "Beech," "Oak," and "Rowan."
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk/pr...
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