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Release Date: 10-08-2005
Label: Kate Waterfield
Catalog Number: CWRCD005
Barcode: 5051078900124
Musical Style: New Age
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uruz [03:22]  | 6 | Algiz [03:58] |
| 2 | Raido [05:29] | 7 | Sowilo [02:07] |
| 3 | Kenaz [03:53] | 8 | Tiwaz [03:40] |
| 4 | Gebo [05:11] | 9 | Ingwaz [05:22] |
| 5 | Isa [04:52] | ||
Reviews:
Kate has one of the purest voices I have ever heard. The album has a fresh pure sound that will haunt and inspire you; a musical delight to the ears. - Brian Botham, Pentacle Magazine
Kate's music is rich with echoes of an Eastern European folk heritage and an experimental 'extended technique' vocal approach reminiscent of Meredith Monk. - Richard Sanderson, Baggage Reclaim, Resonance FM
'I have never had a feel for runes, but Kate demonstrates that she has, by producing this interesting debut album based completely on their phonics. Nine tracks, nine runes, nine textural explorations of the nature of sound as vibration and power.
Almost filled with multi-tracks of her beautiful voice, the album is additionally fleshed out by instruments as diverse as assorted percussion, didjeridoo, guitar, oud, fiddle, and other sounds it is hard to identify. The CD notes don't mention many of these instruments, so I am left to wonder if they are real or digital - either way it worked very, very well.
This is a highly inventive and ambitious album and it draws from many musical traditions as diverse as folk music from Bulgaria and Finland, as well as more experimental Scandinavian music from bands such as Hedningarna. There is more than a hint of experimental classical vocal music in there too, as well as some beautiful acoustic guitar playing by Zura Dzagnidze that has almost echoes of Mike Oldfield's better stuff. It's a maelstrom of creativity, with all its overdubbed vocals, hand claps and textural instruments, but I never once feel Kate loses her centred eye of the storm, never does she go into the turbulence of excess, her vision appears to be held perfect, straight and true throughout.
Kate has played with different bands and vocal groups before this album, but to produce a debut solo creation like this leaves me feeling very impressed. I love being in my own recording studio, and I know how hard it can be to start a simple idea and then develop it: and Kate's ideas are very complex ones which must truly require a steady nerve. I can't say I would like to play the album as ambient background music, it is too intense for that - it demands you listen to it, and rightly so. But I can say to let it wash over you is a delight, and I must make an appointment to play it through head phones because I think it will be quite a ride.' - Nicholas Wood, Summer Sacred Hoop
Description:
Runa Megin is a musical exploration of the meaning and character of nine ancient runic symbols. Experimental vocal techniques and healing sounds from around the world are interwoven with elements of Scandinavian folk and contemporary electronic music to create layers of rhythm, melody and meaning that are fresh and innovative, yet also evocative of a rich sonic and symbolic heritage.
Ideal for use in healing, meditation, for journeying and ritual.
Collaborator on Runa Megin is composer and guitarist Zura Dzagnidze. Originally from Georgia, Zura has studied classical and jazz guitar at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, and Berkeley Music College, USA, and recently won a scholarship to study a post-graduate diploma in composition at Trinity College of Music, London. He has performed/recorded with several bands, most notably the baroque ensemble Iberia Consort, the award-winning Afternoon Version, and the Guria Revision Electronic Music Project.
Biography:
Kate Waterfield is a musician, teacher and practising shamanic healer. She runs workshops in rune posture and sound healing. She has performed and recorded vocally and as a violinist on a variety of different music projects. Kate has extensive composition and music tuition experience. She composed for Futures Theatre Company's Race to Change Face which toured nationally in 2004 and 2003; she worked on Clean Break's nationally touring play, Didn't Die; and she composed for The Forum, a play by Rib Davis, having previously worked with him on the millennium commission, Chuck Out Your Mouldies.
Additional Attributes:
| Relaxing | Uplifting | Meditative | Exercise | Healing | Chant |
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