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Title:	Celtic Woman
Artist:	Celtic Woman
Label:	Manhattan Records
Format:	Music
Release date :	Mar 01, 2005
Number of discs:	1
Genre:	Folk, World Music
UPC:	724386023322
Tracks:	Last Rose of Summer (Intro)/Walking in the Air - Chlöe, Órla ? May It Be - Lisa, Isle of Inisfree - Méav, Danny Boy - Mairead, Celtic Woman One World Ave Maria - Chlöe, Méav, Send Me a Song - Lisa, Siúil a Rún (Walk My Love) - Órla ?, Orinoco Flow - Celtic Woman Someday - Chlöe, She Moved Thru' the Fair - Mairead, Nella Fantasia - Chlöe, Butterfly - Lisa, Harry's Game - Órla ?, Soft Goodbye You Raise Me Up - Celtic Woman Ashoken Farewell/The Contradiction [Live][*] - Lisa, Sí Do Mhaimeo Í (The Wealthy Widow) - Méav,
ASIN:	B0007GAEGC
Producer(s):	--
Album type:	--
Condition:	--
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Notes

Fueled by healthy public appetite for traditional melodies and quasi-ethnic roots, the crossover genre continues to flourish with this debut release from Ireland's Celtic Woman ensemble. The brainchild of Sharon Browne, Dave Kavanaugh (founders of Ireland's successful Celtic Collections label) and young Riverdance touring company musical director David Downes, CW's five young women musicians and vocalists offer up an ever pleasant, Eire-savvy fusion of folk, pop and classical influences. Avoiding the intrusive, club-beat/sex kitten window dressing of Bond, the ensemble tackles material that ranges from the expected (spare, lovely covers of "Danny Boy" and "Ave Maria") to more adventurous fare like "Nella Fantasia" (Ennio Morricone's vocal adaptation of his rapturous theme from The Mission) and Enya's "Orinoco Flow." Elsewhere, "The Butterfly" offers up fiddle-fueled take on their Riverdance parallels (which also get a workout on the live bonus tracks), if renditions of Downes' originals like "One World" and "Send Me a Song" and "Someday" from Disney's animated Hunchback of Notre Dame hew slavishly to the middle of the road -- which largely seems the album's easy-listening intention. --Jerry McCulley

Entertainment

The entertainment industry has grown and evolved over the years with music and cinema taking a new form through the ages and so have the technologies that fuel it. Gone are the days of eight songs on a cassette and VCR players with merely two hours of entertainment recorded on a single video cassette. With the advent of computers came digital data storage and hence the birth of DVD/CDs.

Quiet a step back in matters of physical form as these new generation audio/video storage devices hold an uncanny resemblance to the records that preceded the cassette generation. DVDs and CDs today are an everyday household entertainment storage device which has come a long way since the first records and cassettes were distributed commercially.

Notable advantages of DVD/CDs have to begin with the amount of storage space available. These days its possible to burn multiple movies on a single DVD and as far as audio goes if its in a highly compressed format such as .mp3 a single CD can accommodate multiple music albums. These discs are easy to handle, light and portable with no moving devices unlike the tape generation however they are delicate and a scratch on the DVD/CD surface could cause a disruption in the information being read by the player.

DVD/CDs were initially invented to provide high quality audio/video data to a user with the ability to regulate its production however this soon fizzled away with daily household computers gaining the ability to burn data in such formats. The race to curb piracy through such means has not hit a roadblock and DVD/CDs keep evolving with newer encryption technologies in a bid to curb unchecked replication of data spawning newer technologies like Blu-ray discs which seems to be yet another milestone on an unending road of innovation.