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Acadie
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Track Listing
- Still Water
- Maker
- O Marie
- Jolie Louise
- Fisherman's Daughter
- White Mustang II
- Under a Stormy Sky
- Where the Hawkwind Kills
- Silium's Hill
- Ice
- St. Ann's Gold
- Amazing Grace
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #155765 in Music
- Released on: 2005-06-14
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Ethereal sonic magic
This album is one of the best kept secrets of the last 20 years. It's my favourite album of all time, and I know how loosely these accolades can be thrown around. Acadie has folk roots and a crystaline, unique honesty - it is by turns melodic, bluesy, perfectly produced and yet somehow human and imperfect. You're always chasing it, tantalised by something you can't quite put your finger on. At the same time it is experimental and addictive - two elements that rarely meet. The album has a selflessness that gives it a warm spiritual quality. Quite simply, it's one of music's finest minds letting us in with powerful, spirtual, haunted songs. Everyone will have their favourites on this CD - for me, I cannot look past The Maker or St Anne's Gold. All of Lanois' work is worth a look but he is yet to top this. A masterpiece.
daniel lanois / acadie
this album of daniel lanois is worth far more than 5 stars. i would give this album 100 out of 100. this man's voice is very haunting.i love 'the maker' and 'still water' these 2 songs are just out of this world. buy this album and you will know what i mean and whoever else loves this album will understand and know what i mean.
happy listening. i love elvis presley & rock 'n' roll but! this album is really fantastic. thank you daniel.
Magnificent
This beautifully textured masterpiece sparkles with atmospheric songs of great profundity including ballads like Still Water, The Maker & Where The Hawkwind Kills and uptempo tracks like O Marie and Jolie Louise. Brian Eno must also be credited for making the music so special.
The exquisite melodies have a folkie feel but the playing and production give the music an ethereal, brooding dimension that puts it in a league of its own. O Marie is sung entirely in French, while Jolie Louise and Under A Stormy Sky have alternating French and English verses.
The album concludes with a subdued rendition of Amazing Grace. There is a certain spiritual quality to the music that is hard to define, but also found in the work of fellow Canadian Jane Siberry, in Peter Gabriel's songs Blood Of Eden & Come Talk To Me and of course in the work of Emmylou Harris.
Lanois produced and played on Emmylou's exceptional album Wrecking Ball; on her live album Spyboy there is an impressive 8 minute + version of his composition The Maker. Acadie is a very uplifting listening experience and slightly better than his other great album For the Beauty of Wynona.
