Dhalia. Celtic Dreams And Dances

This album is from a German-based Celtic band. It's no surprise that this is a band that knows how to deliver: after all, they stem from "Paddy Goes to Holyhead" and "Wild Silk". And "deliver" they do. A very pleasing album of largely traditional material. And, as befits a band with personnel from Germany, Egypt, Ireland and Turkey, it is eclectic in the extreme.
Imagine consuming a kebab and a few too many steins of Weisse, Altbier or Pilsner. And then pleasantly hallucinating and seeing a leprechaun on the back of a camel! Well , that just about sums up the overall mood and effect of this album. One goes from the Scots whalers' anthem "Bonnie Ship The Diamond", to a strangely haunting song in Arabic "Elamal", and we end with a setting of a Schiller poem to music.

Tracks:
01. The Diamond
02. Ships Are Sailing
03. Elamal
04. Pantscharevo
05. Boys Of Bedlam
06. Jochie Barly's Polka / The Reconciliation ("Riri")
07. Waltzing Matilda
08. Major Malley's March and Reel ("Battlefield")
09. Sehnsucht





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