Artist: Afrocelts
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Seed
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
The traditional music of Western Africa and Ireland is amalgamated into a seamless blend by Afro Celt Sound System. The band's exciting performances cause become a popular attraction at the WOMAD festival in Reading, England, since 1995, spell their 1996 debut album, Volume 1, cadaver one of the most successful examples of ethnical exchange. Afro Celt Sound System bring together top-ranked musicians, including traditional Irish vocalizer Iarla O'Lionard, uillean pipers Davy Spillane (Moving Hearts) and Ronan Browne, whistle player James McNally (the Pogues), Kenyan nyatiti player Ayub Ogada, and Baaba Maal bandmembers Kauwding Cissakho and Massamba Diop. Jo Bruce, the logos of British bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce (Cream), rounds out the group on keyboards and electronic computer programming. Several tracks on the band's debut album, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Simon Emmerson, featured members of Shoonglenifty on mandolin, bongos, banjo, guitar, and tinker. Released initially on the EMD/Real World label, Volume 1 was issued in the U.S. by Caroline Records. Afro Celt Sound System made their U.S. concert debut in July 1997. Their irregular album, Volume 2: Release, was in conclusion issued in 1999 by Real World. Intensity 3: Further in Time, which featured edgar Albert Guest vocals on "Life Begins Again" by Robert Plant, was released in spring 2001. Seed followed in 2003, with the accompanying Pod DVD arriving the following year. In 2005 the group establish a new house on the Narada label with Volume 5: Anatomic.
