Caroline Lavelle Remix Contest

Winners (tie)

 

Runners Up

 

Winner

Vegas 5.0 software.
ACID PRO 4.0 software.
Four Loops for ACID loop libraries.
Caroline Lavelle merchandise.
Possible inclusion in a Caroline Lavelle compilation CD.

About the Contest

For those listeners to whom this is new ground, A Distant Bell opens a window on a 900 year treasure trove of musical tradition — to quote the call to arms of a previous generation of Folk Rock pioneers, "It All Comes Round Again".

ACIDplanet.com is offering "Banks of the Nile" for remixing.

Caroline on "Banks of the Nile:"

"This is another one I learned originally from my mother — then coming across it again in the wonderful version by Sandy Denny. My mum was an historian and used to tell me stories from history that were brought alive as if she was talking about someone she had met earlier in the day. There were a few girls who followed their lovers to war dressed as boys and some who joined up on their own account in disguise and had successful careers as 'male' soldiers. There is incidentally, an odd Egyptian connection in my family in that my grandfather was so excited by the sound made by the trumpets discovered in Tutankhamen's tomb, that when he came to design the long royal trumpets that are used on state occasions in England — the ones with pennants or flags hanging from them — that he took them as his inspiration."

Next to several performances with The Chieftains this year in Spain, Italy, UK and France, Caroline will play at The Ocean in London on the 17th of September. For details, please click here.

About the Artist

From the early 1980s to early 90s as a member of De Dannan spanning the golden years of that legendary group (alongside Mary Black and Dolores Keane), her three record tenure with Loreena McKennitt and as a current touring member of The Chieftains, Caroline Lavelle has maintained the thread of creativity that connects her to her Celtic heritage and rural English roots. This is Chamber-Folk at its finest.

She has been at the forefront of expanding those traditions into the field of Electronica via her work with Massive Attack (Home Of The Whale) and William Orbit (Moorlough Shore), Jam Nation (She Moved Through The Fair) and the Afro Celt Sound System.

Caroline's new CD, 'A Distant Bell,' brings it all back home with thirteen songs that include two versions if the Wicker Man soundtrack favourite 'Gently Johnny', Pentangle's 'The Trees They Do Grow High' and Fotheringay's 'Banks Of The Nile'. Another stand-out is a luminous version of 'Greenwood Laddie' underpinned by David Bedford's gorgeous arrangement for choir and orchestra.

Two songs feature lyrics by 'Liverpool Poet' Brian Patten, whose work Caroline also recorded on her 1995 Warner Brothers debut album, 'Spirit'.

Apart from David Bedford, Caroline's musical collaborators here include another 'Spirit' era colleague, arranger and co-producer Harvey Brough, dazzling electric fiddle virtuoso Hugh Marsh and also legendary Chieftain Paddy Moloney who makes a cameo appearance on 'Farewell To Music'.

Fans of Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Vaughan Williams, Loreena McKennitt, Kate Bush, June Tabor, Kathleen Ferrier, Pentangle, Shirley Collins, Maddy Prior, Planxty, Linda Thompson & Roy Harper will find much to enjoy here.