Delirium

Artist: Capercaillie
Label: Green Linnet
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 048248310826
EAN: 0048248310826
ASIN: B000005CU2

Release Date: 1996-01-30

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Tracks:

Rann Na Mona
Waiting For The Wheel To Turn
Aodann Srath Bhain
Cape Breton Song
You Will Rise Again
Kenny MacDonald's Jigs
Dean Saor An Spiorad
Coisich, A Ruin
Dr. MacPhail's Reel
Heart Of The Highland
Breisleach
Islay Ranter's Reels
Servant To The Slave

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Customer Reviews:

'S e gle\ toillichte a tha mi leis.......2007-01-31

Add another very supportive vote. When a visitor comes to our home who is uninitiated to the wonders of Gaelic music, I whip out this CD and play "Breisleach" (Delirium) as an example of a calming love song and "Coisich a Ruin" (a.k.a. 'S Fluich an Oidhche) as an example of something lively. I must have more than 150 CDs with Celtic music of various sorts, but these are good ambassadors for it all. Another good pair for this is "Fhir a Bha\ta" and "Grandfather Mountain" from the "The Blood is Strong" CD.
Music like this saves my soul and my sanity some days after a hard day dealing with these "interesting times" we live in. I cannot put into words how the beauty of it transports me and touches my heart.
My eternal gratitude to Nick Freer, our ACGA Gaelic teacher from Alexandria, Virginia, who first recommended Capercaillie & Karen Matheson to me years ago. Mo\ran taing agus tapadh leat, a Neacail.

Celtic Funk is borne.......2002-01-18

The shift in approach and style between previous Capercaillie albums and Delirium is one of the most remarkable transformations in world music. While early recordings showed the band as an interesting but overly predictable and precious traditional celtic group, Delirium hits hard with a delightfully spontaneous blend of the prior elements with pop, funk, world and jazz overtones. For instance, the start of "Rann Na Mona", while stunningly beautiful, does recall Enya or Clannad doing Enya's style, but that quickly dissolves into a swirling skirmish of old and new. "Waiting for the Wheel to Turn" is a welcome statement about one of England's darker moments, that of the Clearances in which Scottish farmers were driven off their land and right out of their country to make way for grazing sheep, "Coisich a Ruin" and "Cape Breton Song" are both resurrected and revitalized works from centuries past. If the lyrics weren't enough, the music and Karen Matheson's voice are even better. The juxtaposition of moods and tempos is near perfect, but the many fine pieces stand well on their own too. There are the cracking instrumentals and wistful ballads as always, but the pop style tunes measure up in every way thanks to thoughtful subject matter and lyrics and strong melodies such as "Heart of the Highland", "You will rise again", and "Dean Saor An Spiorad". Even the closer, "Servant to the Slave", in a plodding almost progressive style that one might want to hate, is a welcome change of mood with which to wind down the project. While some bands take albums and years to break through from humble beginnings, Capercaillie did it all on Delirium, embracing their Scottish roots and then letting them soar.

Delirium.......2001-09-21

This is the album I waited for 3 months (donýt ask...). But it was worth waiting. Even if I would have been born much earlier and had to wait for Capercaillie to happen, it would have been worth waiting. Since I really enjoy in mouth music, Cape Breton Song became my favourite track. Brazen Donald Shaw is again political in his lyrics for Waiting for the Wheel to Turn, Dean Saor an Spiorad and Heart of the Highland, which makes Capercaillie pop-tracks far more interesting and bearable than those by, say, Clannad. Delirium is one of the best and most traditional albums by Capercaillie. They are, indeed, the heart of the Highlands.

An inspiring, beautiful sample of Celtic music........2000-05-25

Capercaillie's music is hard to describe -- the combination of heartfelt, poetic lyrics and sweeping, beautiful music is a rare find in music today. However, they pull it off, and do so consistently throughout the entire CD, whether the lyrics are in English ("You'll wake to a different drum / In a place to call your own / Your world is shaking but a day will come / for a dream to take you home") [from "You Will Rise Again"] or in Gaelic (just look at the title track, "Delirium"). Gaelic folk music is here, as well -- "Cape Breton Song", in various different forms, is still sung by workers in Nova Scotia today, according to an article I read, and is just one of five traditional songs on the album. I highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys Celtic music, and even to those who don't -- Capercaillie seems to do something that few others cannot, and that is transcend the genre to appeal to a much wider audience.

Best ever Celtic CD.......2000-03-02

I really recommend this CD, which is the best ever to appear in any Celtic language. (I do have a knowledge of that particular field). The slow and beautiful songs of "Aodann Srath Bhýin" and "Breisleach" are reasons enough to buy this CD. It also contains lively, engaging song like "Coisich, a Rýin" and "Heart of Highland". If you only buy one Capercaillie CD, make sure it's this one.

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