This Strange Place

Artist: Wolfstone
Label: Green Linnet
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 048248118828
EAN: 0048248118828
ASIN: B000006CF7

Release Date: 1998-02-24

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Tracks:

Harlequin: The Harlequin/Pipe Major Stevie Saint
This Girl
Let Them Sing
Banks Of The Ness
This Strange Place
Stevie's Set: The Wild Monkey Dance/Black Eyed Jam
Till I Sleep
The Arab Set: An Arab In The Court Of Kintail/The Redwood Reel
Reluctant Journey
Kazakhstan: A Thief In The Night/The Hills Of Kazakhstan

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Seven
Year of the Dog
Half Tail
The Chase

Customer Reviews:

Stop over-reacting! A thoroughly enjoyable album.......2004-05-11

Ignore the 1-star reviews of this album. Those crybaby critiques are all due to the lack of crunchy electric guitar. It's the ol' "The band calmed down for one album, so I hate them!" routine. True, it's no "Half Tail," but there are many mighty fine tunes on here that make it more than worth the purchase price. It gets very respectable rotation in my machine. "Till I Sleep" is utterly lovely, as is "Banks of the Ness." I would not want a CD collection that was without these two songs. "Harlequin," "Kazakhstan," & "The Arab Set" are fun instrumentals that are perfectly up to Wolfstone standards.

Worst Wolfstone Album Ever!!.......2001-01-30

I bought this album hoping that the old Wolfstone had produced another hard-hitting disc after a year or two off. However, I was sadly mistaken, as this cd is horrible in comparison to their others, and compared to other celtic albums as well. I would not recommend it at all, but at the same time, I HIGHLY recommend Year of the Dog, The Half Tail, Pick of the Litter, and Seven....all by Wolfstone. Enjoy

Not Their Best Stuff.......2001-01-30

Disappointing album, fantastic band.......2000-09-29

First let me say that Wolfstone is, in my opinion, one of Scotland's national treasures. Due to geography, I've never seen them in concert, but from the music I've heard and from the raves of others who have attended their live performances, it's an experience.

Wolfstone's great strength is synthesis: Taking old folk tunes and classic instruments and bringing them into the modern age. (Can't say as I've ever heard another band with both bagpipes and electric guitars.) They draw from the placid oil well of tradition, pour it into their engine, and kick into high gear. It's what attracted me to the band in the first place.

As such, "This Strange Place" caught me off guard. Broadly speaking, it's much more melodic, fluid, and passive than any of their earlier releases. (They've gotten a little fire back with "Seven", but their other albums, especially "Half Tail," are much more hard-driving.)

If this were my only Wolfstone album, I would undoubtedly rate it higher. "Till I Sleep" has got to be my single most beloved Wolfstone song; its quiet piano accompaniment and haunting lyrics are inspirational. But I've heard what Wolfstone is capable of, their fire and frenzy, and I find I prefer that to the soft reflectiveness of "This Strange Place."

Disappointed.......2000-05-19

I first heard of Wolfstone when I attended a folk festival some years ago. I was very impressed by their melodic folk rock, so when I heard of their new CD "Strange Place" I was really looking forward to it. But after listening to the CD the first time I was very disappointed. It rather sounds like boring pop with a celtic influence, not like the lively Wolfstone tunes I expected. All in all, it's a rather poor Album, I cannot recommend it.

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