Post-Christmas Pick-Me-Up

Many people in the Northern Hemisphere suffer with a malady which has been dubbed SAD - an acronym for Seasonal Affective Disorder. This is not your clinical depression, rather a seasonal depression thought to be triggered by the decreasing length of daylight in Autumn and early Winter. Amongst non-pharmaceutical treatments, intensive light therapy within the daylight spectrum and an involvement with music and dance seem to be the most efficacious. Then there is the after-Christmas let down. It just the blues that come from unfulfilled expectations, excessive hype and hyperbole in support of the commercial feeding frenzy.

Well, here's my hair-of-the-dog remedy for what ails you -- little Celtic trance music from my favorite Celtic trancers, Skilda. Take two viewings and call me Ishmael.

SKILDA / I SEE THE ISLE - CLACH MHIC LEOID from SKILDA on Vimeo.

And for those who like their lives and their trance music a bit more, shall we say, frantic.

SKILDA / GLENAN BLUE rmx from SKILDA on Vimeo.

Thursday's Song -- O Ri by SKILDA

Another Skilda tune via YouTube for your edification:

My Latest Musical Influence: Skilda

This band, Skilda has got my motor running and my heart a-racing. It's a Power-Celt Rock group with a bit of a Techno past. Definitely not your run of the mill export from Ireland. This video of their tune FREEDOM, FUTURE is a montage of a performance in Mallaig, Scotland.

Here, now, is Skilda:

Saturday's Song - O Ri

SKILDA is this Irish rock / celtic fusion band which has become a new favorite in short order. I just wish they'd get their CD's released over here soon.


Visit their MySpace site to hear another really neat tune, An Nighean Dubh M...