Dance To Your Shadow

Dance To Your Shadow
Celtic Harp and Voice
Kim Robertson
50627 Narada

No name is more prominent among American harpists playing Celtic music today than Kim Robertson. On DANCE TO YOUR SHADOW, Robertson artfully layers harp with pipes, accordion, string, fiddles, atmospheric vocalese and an electronic undercurrent for an intriguing fusion of old and new.

DANCE TO YOUR SHADOW is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Robertson's acclaimed solo debut, 1999's THE SPIRAL GATE. She brings a tantalizing contemporary touch and impressive singing to old melodies of timeless allure and new music of equal strength and depth.

It's an album respectful of tradition yet adventurous in scope, pointing to the future by boldly reclaiming the past. Kim's overlaying of Robert Burns' brooking ballad Ca' The Yowes onto the quicker rhythm of the Irish reel Plough The Stars uses harp, fiddle, flute, accordion, and whistle with modern drum loops and intriguing techno sounds. This juxtaposition of different instruments and tempos is both daring and refreshing, the mark of a fully matured and far-ranging talent.

Robertson also knows how to pare back a melody to reveal its core beauty. The harp-harmonica duet with guest George Winston on Thomas Walsh's shimmering Inisheer is a marvel of understated grace and charm, while her rendition of the Irish reel Morning Dew conveys a primal urgency through the inspired merging of harp, fiddle, accordion, and whistle with guest Sandip Burman's mouth music and tabla playing.

Kim Robertson takes wing throughout this album, stirring spirits ancient and contemporary to create music ambitious in reach and universal in appeal, music of lasting scope and substance.

~ Earle Hitchner

Visit Kim Robertson's official website www.kimrobertson.net

Selections

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	1	Morning Dew
	2	Dance To Your Shadow
	3	Mantle So Green
	4	Sally Gardens/Rider's Song/Apples In Winter
	5	My Johnny Was A Shoemaker/Cobbler's Jig
	6	O'Keefe's Slide
	7	Piper's Despair
	8	Inisheer
	9	No' My Plaid/Strayaway Child
	10	I Once Loved A Lass
	11	Broken Prayer
	12	Farewell To Stromness
	13	Ca' The Yowes/Plough The Stars

Artists and Instrumentation Kim Robertson - Celtic harp, vocals George Winston - harmonica Liz Carroll - fiddle Chris Norman - wooden flutes, whistle, small pipes John Williams - button accordion, concertina, piano accordion John Doyle - guitar, bouzouki Joseph Sobol - 10 and 12 string citterns Mark Stewart - electric guitar, mbira, tromba doo, whirly Jackie Moran - bodhran, djembe, riq Jim Hines - drums, djembe, bongos, shakers, junk metal Sandip Burman - tabla and mouth music Peter Buffett - programming Eric Segnitz - electric basses, 12 string guitar, ukulele, keyboards Dan Armstrong - double bass Brek Renzelman - viola Karl Lavine - cello Bill Helmers - clarinet and bass clarinet Don Sipe - flugelhorn Bill Barnewitz - French horn Dave Lussier - trombones Alan Baer - tuba Ric Probst - backing vocals Peter Batchelder - backing vocals