About the Album
"Celtic Forest"
Anisa Angarola
is one of a handful of
women to excel in the world
of classical guitar. Her
technical virtuosity is not
the only quality she brings to
her art form; in addition
to her years of training,
performing and recording,
Anisa offers her heart. She
founded the Los Angeles
Guitar Quartet in 1979,
performed in the historic
Andres Segovia master classes
held at the University of
Southern California and has appeared in concert with
guitar legends Angel Romero
and Los Romeros Quartet. Anisa's deep love of Celtic music has inspired her devoted
study of this ancient tradition. Guitar Review hails the artist for "showing
off the instrument in a new and surprisingly effective light" and for her "strong, clear
sound capable of subtle shadings."
Kim Robertson
combines authentic traditions of the Celtic harp with a dynamic flair for world rhythms
and daring improvisation. The work of this composer, instrumentalist and singer
"sweeps the listener into a full array of mood and emotion" (CD Review). Her love for
ancient Celtic melodies, medieval French songs, jazz and classical music inspires
Kim to an extraordinary freedom of expression, and her international career is testimony
to her brilliant and unique style. The Los Angeles Times calls her work "delightfully
cosmopolitan," praises
her "incredible
technique," and noted that "her Celtic
harp held within its strings and wood the diverse offerings
of the human race."
Kim Robertson
has focused and
refined her artistic
vision to create an
intimate yet universal chamber music of
the soul.
Joemy Wilson
has been hailed by critics
on both sides of the Atlantic
for her renditions of the music
of Turlough O'Carolan.
Irish critic John Paddy
Browne writes, "Now, at last,
we have a new interpreter
who has converted the
great man's exquisite music
to the hammered dulcimer
and restored it to its natural,
classical setting." One of the
pioneers of the dulcimer
renaissance and the Celtic
revival of the early 1980's,
Joemy calls her style "Baroque
Irish chamber music" and
gratefully acknowledges
as her primary influences the Chieftains, especially harpist/dulcimist Derek Bell, the great
Seán O'Riada and his Ceoltóiri Cualann, who brought Carolan to the attention of the world, and her lifelong love of classical music, particularly Mozart's chamber music.
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