Susana Seivane | 
 enlarge | Artist: Susana Seivane
Label: Green Linnet
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 107380
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 048248313728
EAN: 0048248313728
ASIN: B00004WK1H
Release Date: August 22, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Jotabe - Susana Seivane, Suarez, Melo | | • | Taramundi E Alen - Susana Seivane, Suarez, Melo | | • | Xota de Ninodaguia/Muineira Do Moino de Peiza/Polca Para Erica - Susana Seivane, Varela, Anton | | • | Pasacorredoiras de Ponteareas - Susana Seivane, Traditional | | • | Alala de Vilalba - Susana Seivane, Romani, Rodrigo | | • | Sabelina - Susana Seivane, Seivane, Susana | | • | Marcha Procesional Dos Mato - Susana Seivane, | | • | Fonsagrada - Susana Seivane, Traditional | | • | Xota Dos 28 Puntos - Susana Seivane, | | • | Maneo - Susana Seivane, | | • | A Cotula - Susana Seivane, | | • | O Savinao-Pasodoble de Pousada - Susana Seivane, Traditional | | • | Tres Muineiras (Three Muineiras) - Susana Seivane, |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The music of the northwestern Spanish coastal province of Galicia consists of a persistent Celtic strain grafted onto centuries of Portuguese, Spanish, and early music influences. The local mouth-blown bagpipe is called the gaita and was made famous by Carlos Nunez. Susana Seivane is descended from generations of pipers and is also a formidable virtuoso, but she has a subtler, more reedy sound than her charismatic countryman. Her debut album was produced by Rodrigo Romani of the supergroup Milladoiro, the Galician equivalent of the Chieftains. He and other band members sit in as Seivane leads a faultlessly idiomatic team of Gallegos (Galicians) through a program of rumbas, xotas, paso dobles, munieras (Galician jigs), marches, and alalas (slow airs). Tin whistles and flutes, squeezeboxes, fiddles, mouth harps, plucked strings, and occasional vocals by the talented Sonia Lebedynski add up to a lighthearted journey through a relatively unspoiled and picturesque musical terrain. --Christina Roden
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
Awesome traditional bagpiping from a rising star March 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Until I lived in Spain on two different occasions, I had no idea that certain regions of Spain (Galicia and Asturias) were famous for bagpipes. Galicia, Spain's most Celtic province, speaks a language closer to Portuguese than Spanish (Gallego), has a rich folklore of witches, wizards, and magic, and features traditional dances such as muneiras, marches, pasa dobles and xotas played on the gaita, or bagpipes. I made it a point to seek out gaita concerts when traveling in Galicia, and I own several different gaitero (bagpiper) CDs from Galicia and Asturias.
The gaita is closest in sound to the Northumbrian and Great Highland bagpipes, with a chanter, bass drone, and one or two additional drones. The most famous export is Carlos Nunez, a talented gaita / whistle player who has toured and performed extensively with the Chieftains and other Celtic acts. In Spain, Xose Manuel Budino is also a talented gaitero who's updated the traditional songs with synth and distinctly modern touches. Susana Seivane is a female gaitera born in Barcelona whose father and grandfather were accomplished gaiteros. She began playing bagpipes in folk festivals from the tender age of three.
On Susana Seivane, her debut, she reinterprets traditional songs with a deft touch. The CD was produced by one of the founders of Milladoiro (a famous Galician group that blends traditional with modern), so its traditional pedigree is flawless. There are slower, playful tracks such as Taramundi e Alen and uptempo, fiery stunners like Xota de Ninodaguia and Xota de 28 puntos while A Cotula features spritely accordion and fiddle. Maneo is a haunting ballad that flirts with Eastern rhythm and melody. Alala de Vilalba is a gentle guitar and vocal ballad underscored by fiddle and whistle.
Susana Seivane deftly takes the listener through the traditional gaita repertoire of marches, xotas, pasadobles, and muneiras, sweeping you away to lush, wild Galicia with its rich green mountains and dramatic coastline, and it's easy to imagine those Celtic tribes that settled there so long ago. Fans of Celtic music and bagpipes will thrill at Susana's virtuosity and respect for this ancient instrument.
Very pleasing music March 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Susana Seivane has some of the best music I've heard, I'll say.
I especially like the two fast-paced songs that you can download for free. You can get Jotabe, track 1 of this album, from [...] and once upon a time you could get Vai de Polcas, from her other album from there as well; thankfully, you can still get it through archive.org.
Check out these two songs, and if you don't love them . . . I don't know if I can help you:
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And, as for the person who said that her music wasn't spine tingling like Hevia's . . . I really don't know what that person was talking about. Susana Seivane's music has a much richer sound to it; much more substantial in tone; more flavorful--the free tracks, at least, are much more upbeat, as well (at least from what I heard of Hevia by listening online; I don't actually own any of their albums). This music is unique to Western ears. This is Galatian bagpipe music, and although it's Celtic, it's not like the Scottish sort. It sounds more like the Breton sort of Celtic music with some Spanish-Arabian sounds.
 Accomplished young Piper May 22, 2002
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Susana is a very good piper. This is a pleasant album; it's not spine tingling like Hevia, but it's well worth a listen. There's not much new from good pipers these days.
she's a great piper! April 5, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is masterful piping. Lovers of traditional Irish, Scottish, or Breton music will find this disc a delight.BTW, the writer of Amazon's review has it completely backwards: centuries of Spanish, Portugues, and other musical influences graft on the the scion, the original stock, Galician! The only older influence hereabouts is Basque.
Susana Seivane March 2, 2001
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Amazing! The music is entrancing. One is drawn to listen, dance, imagine--the bagpipes are so lively, and never crossing into flat rythym--what control! I can't wait for more from this incredible woman. I also was intrigued by references to other Gallician groups and musicians. I will be looking for them from now on. QUE BRAVA!
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