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Gorgeous all acoustic Celtic/African/original music featuring hammered dulcimer, direct from the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland.
Genre:
New Age: Celtic New Age
Release Date:
2005
Albums you will love
Harris Moore & Steve Coulter
Stone Circle
World: Celtic
ANU: Earth Spirits of Ancient Ireland
© Copyright-Harris Moore
Record Label: Anu Music
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ANU is the latest offering from hammered dulcimer mesmerist Harris Moore. 10 years in the making, this album serves up an eclectic three course meal of Trad Irish, South African, and original music blending National steel and Spanish guitars, horns, harp, bass, charanguito and zamponas, etc. Features many great artists from the Dingle Peninsula including vocals by Eilis Kennedy on (track 3) and Eoin Duignan on whistles (track 5).
This is exceedingly deep, spooky, and often funky stuff inspired by Anu herself, the ancient pre-Celtic goddess of Ireland. The "Paps of Anu" are a perfect pair of mountains (not far from Dingle) that have been revered as the breasts of the earth goddess for millenia.
If you ever manage to find yourself on the Dingle Peninsula (which will surely blow your mind), go visit Harris' Celtic & Prehistoric Museum (about 10 minutes west of town) and blow it away completely. Watch out for his goat Sally...she is smarter than she looks.
Below is a review of this cd from the Irish Times 19/08/05
ANU
Earth Spirits Of Ancient Ireland (Anu Music)
"This is one of the quirkiest, most original collections to hit the decks in ages. American hammer dulcimer acolyte Harris Moore may be a long-time Dingle resident but his vistas are wide open, informed by a fascination with Celtic mythology and a fervent belief in the subtle influence of the unseen. Moore's original opening pair of tunes, Three Sisters Well and The Paps of Anu, declare their O'Carolan influences proudly, with his hammer dulcimer tracing a wiry path through their intricate geography. Eilís Ní Chinnéide's guest vocals on Bríd Óg Ní Mháille is a paragon of divine simplicity, and Eoin Duignan's Ginny lends further lightness of being. Alien saxophone occasionally grates, but as footloose as a lifelong traveller, this is music that reveals itself note by note. Worth savouring." http://www.celticmuseum.com/ Siobhán Long,
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author: Ines
Wonderful composition
author: M Collins
The CD was recieved in good time. Love listening to the collection when I want to unwind after each day of the 'rat-race'. The air is beautiful.
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Perfect for evoking calming emotions
author: Alana Abbott, author of Into the Reach
I had the opportunity to hear Steve Coulter play, and have been wishing I'd bought "Anu" when I was in Ireland ever since I left! The CD does not disappoint. A fine companion to the "Stone Circle" CD, "Anu" provides more wheeling melodies and meditative ballads, perfect to use as background music while writing, or as a soundtrack for relaxation.
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Wonderfullly diverse and haunting melodies
author: Edward Burke, College DJ and Celtic music fan
I love the unique mixture of Irish and South American musical traditions. The music here beckons me to come visit the Emerald Isle and it's "Mist-Covered Mountains" (by far, the most beautiful track , and my favorite, on the album). In an era of so many loud and frantic rock records, it is truely refreshing to hear Celtic music being played slowly and thoughfully, and the hammered dulcimer is just the instrument for the job! I love this album.
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