Various - Faeries: A Musical Companion To The Art Of Brian Froud

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Free Music Review: Return me to the realm of Faerie...
Hit: 5 Stars

Rippling sounds, waves, breaking through the pool that gathers at the base of the spring, arms reaching out to draw me in, to trade places, worlds. Faerie walks the world of Man, human girl wanders lost in wanderlust, head swimming in glitter and glam.

This past Spring I was beckoned into the Faerie glen by the poetry and lilting notes of Woodland at the Faerieworlds Festival. Early this Autumn, I found myself again drawn into the realm by FAERIES: A MUSICAL COMPANION TO THE ART OF BRIAN FROUD, falling in step with leaf-sailing pookhas and faeries in legwarmers and scarves!

From ultraviolet underground to light and aerie, the songs and melodies selected for this collection are well mixed. The seductive sounds of "Sweet Allure" by Ballingomingo and "Dreaming" by BT will pull you down into the underground dance scene- and right on through to the realm of Faerie. Soft and ethereal, the voices of Aylmer and Cahill singing "Nevermore" will sweetly haunt you as you go about your day, while the joyous notes of "Alegria," from Cirque du Soleil's show of the same title, will raise the spirit and send it on its merry way to paint the world with rainbow colors.

Upon starting the enhanced portion of the CD, faeries and piskies dance in and out of view, a smooth blend of mythical art and digital mastery. Enhanced features include a Gallery, text from an Interview with Brian Froud, a Film Clip from "The Fairy Faith," an Animation, and an Excerpt from the new Lady Cottington's Fairy Album.

Images in the Gallery feature friends old and new, some never been seen before (as is the way from time to time with fairy folk) - particularly haunting is the image, "The Ragged Wood," a masked woman, emblazoned with a red rose.

Jugglers and fans of GOOD FAERIES/BAD FAERIES and THE FAERIES' ORACLE will clap their hands with joy to see the young balancer, Adroito, with his magical balls in motion in the Animation. Look carefully- faeries like to pop in and out of our lives and the screen in the blink of an eye!

Photos and folly, faith and fancy, following and falling- here they all start with the same thing- Froud. I think Brian said it best in the Interview: "Music has a wonderful ability to create space; it discretely lifts you out of the current moment and transports you into another world. The type of music is not important; what is important is that you surrender to it and let it take you away?" I surrender, I surrender?

Night dances back to the edge, sends herself to where I stand, and I stand on the edge, where I once stood, so long ago, so recently. I do not return to where I once lived, for I did not live there, did not breathe there, I merely was. Following the path I thought I knew, past the cottage where I once grew, towards the horizon, so deep and blue, to find and begin a life made new, a Life True.

(C) Kerrie A. Colantonio October 2002 All Rights Reserved
Please do not reproduce without the author's express permission.

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