Avalon: A Celtic Legend

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Avalon: A Celtic Legend
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Artist: Enaid
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2002-02-19
Music Label: Neo Pacific
Soundtracks:
  1. Road To Camelot
  2. Enchantment
  3. Avalon
  4. The Spirit Of Excalibur
  5. Merlin's Secret
  6. Lady Of The Lake
  7. The Round Table
  8. Guinevere's Tears
  9. The Wedding
  10. Arthur's Farewell

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Free Music Review: Absolutely beautiful!
Hit: 5 Stars

Here I am again, writing another praise-filled review but to me this is worth it. Composed by David and Diane Arkenstone, this work to me is simple and stunning. Not as grand and orchestral as the recent "Music inspired by Middle Earth", this album has a more down to earth Medieval flavor appropriate to what it depicts. A beautiful mix of violin, guitar, drums, flute, and whistle blends excellently with lovely keyboards, piano and choral effects to bring this musical portrait to life. Uilleann pipes make a nice apperance as well. The melodies do tend to be repetitive but they are so beautiful and heart-wrenching that you will not mind about it. Also each piece is easily distinct. You never feel as if you are hearing the same song played over and over again.

1 Road To Camelot- This is appropriately lively, giving a sense of travelling to a place you long to see.
2 Enchantment- Softer and slower, with beautiful strings and wordless vocals. A sense of being lured to somewhere by beauty
3- Avalon- Slow again. Exquisite piano and vocal work with strings capture the beauty of a place lost in legend
4- The Spirit Of Excalibur- This has the same beauty as #3 but sounds a bit more "noble", almost like a march in some places
5- Merlin's Secret- More lively and jaunty than the last two but with a happiness and beauty all it's own
6- Lady Of The Lake- Lovely and slow. Ethereal. Not quite a lament though. Or is it? You be the judge.
7- The Round Table- This is slow to mid tempo stuff. It has the feel of a noble procession somehow.
8- Guinevere's Tears- This is as the title suggests a beautiful lament.
9- The Wedding- Easily the liveliet piece on the album. It gives a real feeling of celebration and Medieval pageantry.
10- Arthur's Farewell- Uilleann pipes combine with strings, gentle piano, and vocal work. The melody is simple and beautiful, rising and falling like waves on the shore. It gives the feel of Arthur's soul rising to Heaven as his comerades look on.
In short this album does a great job of capturing everything that makes the Arthurian legends so enduring to us. Love, nobility, adventure, heroics, and tragedy. It's all here. If you pick this up more likely than not, it's beauty will grab hold of your heart and never let go of it.

Avalon: A Celtic Legend Poster

It's nothing new for David and Diane Arkenstone, the core members of New Age quartet Enaid, to be inspired by mythology; the appropriately timed Music Inspired by Middle Earth is proof enough of that. Avalon is another collection in a similar vein, a compendium of instrumental pieces that take their titles from landmark events and concepts within the classic story. This CD is somewhat less driven by narrative, and occasionally, the music appears to refer to nothing in particular. The opening "Road to Camelot," a dance-appropriate piece with a medieval flavor, leads into "Enchantment," which features wordless vocals and a slower, more ethereal mood. While "The Spirit of Excalibur" and "The Round Table" put the listener on firmer ground, this collection has a less universal flair, tending rather toward personal interpretation. In that sense, it's vintage David Arkenstone; not, perhaps, a groundbreaking work, but diverting enough in its own right. --Genevieve Williams

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