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 Posted: 30-May-2004, 06:42 PM
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Peasant
Group: Celtic Nation
Posts: 5
Joined: 30-May-2004
Zodiac: Holly
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Hello Highlander Forum
I thought I would mention that we are holding a special sale on eBay of my CD, The Silent Ones, A Legacy of the Highland Clearances. For a limited time, we will be offering the CD at a reduced cost of $9.95 (US) plus $3 (U.S.) shipping and handling to locations in the U.S. and Canada. (Shipping cost to the UK, Europe, New Zealand & Australia is $ 4 (U.S.).
For those of you who are not familiar with the recording, The Silent Ones tells the story (in song) of Bruce County, Ontario, Canada?s Lewis? Settlers. The settlers were evicted from their crofts on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland?s Outer Hebrides in 1851 by landlord James Matheson and transported overseas. Victims of Scotland?s infamous Highland Clearances, the Lewis Settlers (109 families) settled together on a block of land in the centre of Huron Township, Ontario, maintaining their language and culture well into the twentieth century. I know a couple of families in the township, for instance, who still speak Gaelic in the home. There are lots of Lewis descendants still residing in the area, some on land first cleared by their ancestors. The Silent Ones project is especially dear to my heart as I am a descendant of Lewis Settlers. In February of 1998, I left a comfortable arts administration job and moved back to Huron Township establishing Torquil Productions and Recording Studio on a plot of land first cleared and settled by my great grandfather and namesake, Angus Macleod (a native of Mid Borve on the Isle of Lewis? west side and one of the evicted crofters). The Silent Ones was recorded, there, on the very homestead of my great grandfather.
?The production is exceptionally good, very much in the style of Capercaillie at their best. ?Unless you happen to be a blinkered adherent of heavy metal or
Improvisational jazz or are totally devoid of a soul, this recording
deserves a place in your CD rack.?
From a review by
Brian Palmer
The Ileach Newspaper
And Web
Isle of Islay, Argyll
Scotland
Nominated for Album of the Year.
?The story and history are fascinating and the music is stunning.?
Patrick Laffan
Host/Producer
Celtic Connections
Radio Show
Middletown, CT
?The music of The Silent Ones is absolutely stunning, both in performance
and content, more so, because it comes from deep within the soul of Angus
Macleod. Perhaps all Celtic music flows from the heart, but very little of it
has the heartfelt quality of The Silent Ones.?
Frank A. Mills
Celtic Heritage Magazine
Halifax, Nova Scotia
?The Silent Ones has to be one of the best concept pieces that I?ve heard in
decades and as a composer/arranger, Macleod?s work is absolutely brilliant.
It is a rare treat indeed to listen to an extended work that is as
sensitively melodic throughout as this one is.
As well, this CD offers a composition/arrangement mix of traditional and now
sound that is so well blended, it deserves a style name of its own.
Allegorically, the sound of this CD would visually translate as watching
cinemascope on the big screen after black white 17? television.?
From a review by Alan Argue, Creative and Performing Arts, The Wellington
Advertiser, Fergus, Ontario
?wonderfully atmospheric Gaelic verse and narration, fantastic instrumental
music, and accompanying Angus on vocals, the soothing and at times haunting
voice of 16 year old Sarah Buckingham ? a talented singer who?s got a bright
future ahead of her?anyone with Celtic heritage will not fail to be
moved by this album.?
Calum Macdonald
Celtic Set
Isles FM 103
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Scotland
?a must for anyone who wants to understand the many links between Scots and the New World.?
From a review by
Alasdair Maclean
The Scots Magazine
Dundee, Scotland
The Silent Ones can be purchased at the special reduced pricing mentioned above by following the link below where you will also find a variety of world wide media response to the recording.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...ssPageName=WDVW
All the best,
Angus Macleod
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