1 Douar

Artist: Alan Stivell Label: Dreyfus Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 764911620923 EAN: 0764911620923 ASIN: B000007TPS Release Date: 1998-07-21

Tracks:

1. A United Earth I
2. La Memoire De L'Humain
3. Hope
4. Ensemble (Understand)
5. Crimes
6. A United Earth II
7. Scots Are Right
8. Ever
9. Kenavo Glenmor
10. Una's Love
11. Aet On (Into The Universe's Breath)
12. A United Earth III

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Customer Reviews:

Celtic fusion, voice like Bono, arrangements like Peter Gabriel.......2005-07-30

Stivell back on triumphant form.......2000-01-20

From its scintillating opening track "United World 1" guesting Youssou 'N Dour, to the lush lyrical tones of its last numbers, the album showcases Stivell's inventiveness both in rhythm and melody, and his sureness of touch in dramatic arrangement. Happily, the harp resounds throughout the album, sometimes in melodic lead, often in rhythmic counterpoint. Beautifully produced (in part by Afro-Celt wizard Simon Emmerson), the new technologies enhance rather than drown the whole. Sampling is intelligent and compelling (particularly the late Goadec sisters in "La Memoire de L'Humain"), and even the wacky "Scots Are Right", which could have showcased Stivell at his cringing ranting worst, has a playfulness and an experimental deftness that wins me over (helped by some good smoky vocals by Jim Kerr, ex-Simple Minds). The two elegies (one to recently deceased Breton bard Glenmor, with a superb contribution from Chieftains' piper Paddy Moloney) are built on achingly beautiful, wistful melodies. Irish classic "Una Bhan", chanted in sean-nos style by Breda Mayock, emerges from Stivell's own English variant, set against a hypnotic harp loop, and flows into a majestic crescendo of pipeband drones (which then simply subside - a superb touch of restraint). Other winners are the wonderful Breton/Algerian kan-ha-diskan/Rai fusion "Understand" sung with Khaled, and the lovely hypnotic "United World 2".

The political optimism at the heart of the album celebrating identity and diversity in the global village ("douar" means world in Breton and village in Arabic) is matched by the musical exuberance of Stivell and his guests. Twenty-five years after promoting the musical adventurism that would become "world music", Stivell proves here that he can still reinvent himself, still surprise and still captivate. This is his best album since "Dublin".

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