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.

It Brought Tears To My Eyes

This young lady has it all ... looks, talent, personality, sings like an angel, cute as a button. Well, you get the idea...



Via an email from MustangBob -- Thanks Bob!

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...

Matrix Revisits Riverdance

Ok, ok, so Gregorian chants aren't your thing? Give this Matrix Music Video set to a tune from the Lord of the Dance Riverdance show a look.

Sunday's Sounds -- Michael McGoldrick

Perhaps the world's most talented Celtic Flautist, here with Sharon Shannon, Jim Murray and Frankie Gavin playing "Jewels Of The Ocean" and "Lizzie In The Lowground." Typical YouTube acoustic quality, which means poor. Despite that, well worth the few minutes to listen. Watch out if you tend to tap your toes -- you'll be dancing in the aisle during collection!