構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:00:00

Personnel: Tim O'Brien (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Karine Polwart (vocals, guitar); Beth Nielsen Chapman (vocals, piano); Sarah Dugas, Heidi Talbot, Lino Rocha, Maura O'Connell, Sinead O'Connor (vocals); Fraser Fifield (whistling, pipe, saxophone); Manus Lunny (guitar, bouzouki); Kris Drever (guitar, double bass); Steve Cooney (guitar, kalimba); Ed Boyd, John Doyle (guitar); Jordan McConnell (acoustic guitar); Eamonn Coyne (tenor guitar, banjo, tenor banjo); Corey DiMario (tenor guitar, double bass); Kenny Fraser (tres, violin); Leonard Podolak, Alison Brown (banjo); Chris Stout, Connie Ellisor, Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Pamela Sixfin, David Davidson , David Angell (violin); Tania Elizabeth (fiddle, strings); Dezi Donnelly, Stuart Duncan, Casey Driessen, Brittany Haas (fiddle); Jim Grosjean, Gary VanOsdale (viola); Anthony LaMarchina (cello); Steve Kettley (flute, saxophone); Michael McGoldrick (bamboo flute, wooden flute, Uilleann pipe); Alan Kelly , John Somerville (accordion); Howard McGill (saxophone); Neil Yates, Ryan Quigley (trumpet); Dirk Powell, Phil Alexander, John Burr (piano); Ewen Vernal (double bass, electric bass); Todd Phillips (double bass); James MacKintosh (drums, percussion); Christian Dugas (drums); Dougie "El Pulpo" Hudson, Emeris Solis (congas); John & James Kelly (bodhran); Johnny Kalsi (tabla); Erick Jaskowiak (percussion); Liam O Maonlai (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Ciaran Byrne; Jamie MacLean; David Leonard ; Peter Rawson; Steve Cooney; Steven Heller; Erick Jaskowiak; John Doyle . Recording information: Allaire Studios, Shokan, NY; Butterstone Studios, Scotland; Castle Studios, Pencaitland, Scotland; Cauldron Studios, Dublin, Ireland; Compass Sound Studio, Nashville, TN; East Iris Studio, Nashville, TN; Meadowvale, Dublin, Ireland; Morningstar Recording Studio, Philadelphia, PA; Secret Music, Glasgow, Scotland; St. John Of God's, Mzuzu, Malawi; Upstream Productions, Asheville, NC; ZWA Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland. Musically speaking, this type of project is fraught with danger. Whenever an album is put together in the service of a cause -- especially one as urgently important as a well-creation program in Malawi -- two things are almost inevitable: first, musical quality will take a back seat to the emotional appeal (because after all, what's musical quality when compared to a life-and-death struggle for water?), and second, at least half of the contributing artists will somehow end up singing mawkishly about themselves and their own global sensitivity (remember "We Are the World"?). Wells for Zoe -- Water for Life manages to avoid both pitfalls by a couple of ingenious stratagems. The first is by being mostly a compilation of previously released material bound together by themes related to water and wells: thus, flutist Michael McGoldrick contributes a recording of his original composition "Watermans," Crooked Still contributes a song called "Wading Deep Waters," and Eamonn Coyne and Kris Drever bring the "Lakeside Barndances" set from their Honk Toot Suite album. The new recordings featured here avoid bathos by employing sly humor: Maura O'Connell and the Duhks team up on a roof-raising version of "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves," and the Sinead O'Connor/Liam O Maonlai collaboration "Baby, Let Me Buy You a Drink" (though much less energetic) is also cute -- though it must be said that O'Connor's voice has seen better days. Heidi Talbot's rendition of the gorgeous Boo Hewerdine song "Muddy Water" is perhaps the album's high point, though the Alison Brown Quartet's joyously swinging "Wonderful Sea Voyage (Of Holy St. Brendan)" is a gem as well. Overall, this ends up being an album that is worthy on its own merits as well as being a worthy contribution to an important cause. ~ Rick Anderson

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)