Dan Ar Braz - Celtic Heritage (1994) [gnodde]

Dan Ar Braz - Celtic Heritage (1994) [gnodde]
Dan Ar Braz (born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of L'Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band. Leading guitarist in Celtic music, Dan Ar Braz has recorded as a soloist and with innovative Celtic harp player Alan Stivell. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996.

Celtic Heritage is a beautiful album with a modern, more "electric" feel to it. Dan Ar Braz assembled a group of top-notch musicians from Brittany and the British Isles, who perform a mix of songs with vocals as well as instrumentals. The album's high points are "Language of the Gael" [Cànan Nan Gàidheal] (sung in Gaelic by Karen Matheson) and the hauntingly sparse duet "Me zo ganet e kreiz ar mor" ['I was born in the midst of the ocean'] (sung in Breton by Yann Fanch Kemener and Gilles Servat).

Dan Ar Braz's electric guitar work is understatedly elegant; there are flashes which show his edgier, blues-rock chops. When the album was released in 1994, it surprised everyone by selling 100,000 copies in over 10 countries.

Tracks:
01 - Borders of Salt
02 - Spike Island Lasses
03 - Language of the Gaël
04 - Green Lands
05 - Maro eo ma mestrez
06 - April the 3rd
07 - Eliziza
08 - King of Laois
09 - The Island
10 - Scottish Suite
11 - Me Zo Ganet E Kreiz Ar Mor
12 - Call to the Dance

All in MP3 @ 320kbps