CELTIC JOURNEY
Various Artists
(p) (c) 2000 Earthtone Records
15tks/66mins

This music is born there, among misty plains and the marshes, where an old grass grows, among woody hills and calm lakes, high cliffs and the sea, going beyond the horizon. This is music of the Celts, ancient civilization, which culture keeps on influencing greatly the modern world. And this music comes to us with the new album Celtic Journey, released by the Earthtone Records. This is a wonderful collection! Celtic music is softly pouring on a listener with the first cords of Nimue's Lament by Alkaemy. There are scope and space, gentle longing and tenderness in this composition. The following one Secret Call by Ginkgo Garden supports this mood and you find yourself in a stream, being carried by this music, there to the endless sea, and you plunge into is foamy waves, you feel its salty water, and you yourself become this boundless sea...

Compilers of the Celtic Journey succeeded both in bringing us the spirit of the Celts and in keeping the volume, openness which are at present in this music. It is not only melodic and very cordial, which makes a heart to sweetly sink, but it is very visual. One can see so many images, while listening to such an earthly melodies, which at the same time seem to come from other worlds. And this compilation is made very professionally. The compositions perfectly combine with each other, supporting each other, keeping the general feeling of tenderness and beauty. And you wish just to hear this beautiful music, having forgotten everything else, immersing into pleasant dreams.

The compilers of Celtic Journey have included in the collection both the compositions of a well-known artists -- Mary Black, Philip Riley and Sally Oldfield, and many works of young musicians, released by the Earthtone Records. These are Aeon, Govinda, Alkaemy, and many other brilliant artists. With that, real diamonds of Celtic music are collected here. The album contains also a pleasant surprise for the listeners: an epic composition by Christopher Franke named Celtic Mist. Music of the Celtic Journey is like a gulp of a tipsy-fresh air. This music touches deeply, it awakens most light feelings of a human soul, it addresses straight to the heart...

Listen to the Celtic Journey, this precious gift from the Earthtone Records! Switch it on and start a journey, full of incredible adventures. The journey to the Motherland of this legendary people, which name is the Celts.

Serge Kozlovsky