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Thread #93960   Message #1815762
Posted By: blind will
21-Aug-06 - 11:54 PM
Thread Name: English music compared to Celtic music
Subject: RE: English music compared to Celtic music
Greg Stephens,

**I think the question is essentialy a bit meaningless.**

I don't think my questions were meaningless myself.Not that your neccesariuly wrong in all your assessments.Your probably right in some of your critique.Would you atleast agree that people are much more likely to recognise certain types of Irish or Gaelic sounds then English sounds (which evidently arn't as popularised in culture)?

**Have a listen to a couple of tracks, and tell me.Do they sound "Celtic"? or "Anglo-Saxon? or something else? And if so, what?

Well to answer your question I'm gonna have to use the word "Celtic" which might upset some people in the process.I wasn't able to locate full length examples of your band yet, but I did manage to hear some short sampled parts of tracks.A few of the tracks sounded pretty "non Celtic" or "English" to me( A Trip to the Lakes, Robinsons, Stybarrow Crag), but "The Birds upon a Tree" and especialy "Carisle Reel" I very much notised what I perceived to be that "Celtic" sound or influence, a sound that helps to blur the boundries between Celtic & Non-Celtic.Just answering your question based on the tiny bits I heard, so hopefully nobody's stomache starts cringing in Celtic knots!