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Bel Canto, beautiful singing, is a term used to describe, in particular, the preferred light, bright quality of Italian opera singers, learned through the mysterious teaching practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ann Patchett, award-winning American author, used the term for her novel “Bel Canto”, published in 2001. Eilidh has taken Patchett’s story, transferred it to Gaelic Scotland and composed 14 original tracks around the narrative themes of love, music, identity, language and communication.
The song cycle follows the tale of an opera diva and her audience members being taken hostage by a group of native terrorists. As the songs and story progress, boundaries become blurred.
The album, recorded by Mark Freegard at 3kyoti studio in Glasgow, boasts a stellar musician line up with Brian McAlpine as pianist, the lynch-pin for the song cycle. Ged Grimes, ex Danny Wilson and now Deacon Blue, provides bass while the string section of Gordon Gunn on fiddle and Christine Hanson on cello complete the core band line up.
