Volume II No. 1
A Monthly Collection of News, Reviews,
Essays, Poems and Advice From the Gourds
A New Gourd Music Release:
Cello by Barry Phillips GM 130

Introducing Cello, the second solo recording by longtime Gourd cellist and producer Barry Phillips.

Cello’s expansive soundscape features traditional and contemporary cello solos, duos, and trios gleaned from traditions around the globe and from eight centuries of music. The 15 tracks present instrumentation and arrangements of melodies from Western and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and North America.
Phillips has recently been touring with and arranging for sitar legend Ravi Shankar. This influence is heard on his new recording as Phillips blends the sounds of harmonium, tabla and tanpura with traditional Celtic tunes and instrumentation.

Along with Phillips, Cello features a talented crew of musicians that includes Bikram Ghosh (tabla), Shelley Phillips (oboe, harp, and English horn), Chris Caswell (percussion), Todd Phillips (bass), Shira Kammen (vielle, violin), Lars Johannesson (flute), Neal Hellman (mountain dulcimer), Theo Page (violin), and Martin Simpson (guitar).
Compositions:
Braigh Loch Iall (Scotland), Caoineadh an Spailpín (Ireland), Ladom Se, Goro Zalade, (Balkans), Aoibhneas Eilis Ní Cheallaigh (Ireland), Polska efter Pelle Fors (Sweden), Thugamar Fein an Samhradh Linn (Ireland), Lochaber No More (Scotland), O Ho The Pretty Chain (Shaker), Old Heddon of Fawsley (England), Trotto (England), Gycklarpolskan av Peter Ersson (Sweden), Inis Oírr (Ireland), I Love to See the Wheels in Motion (Shaker), Cantiga de Santa Maria (Spain), Shto Mi E Milo (Macedonia).
Phillips’ previous recordings include Gourd’s Shaker Trilogy (co-produced with William Coulter): Simple Gifts, Tree of Life, and Music on the Mountain. He also composed and produced The World Turned Upside Down in 1990, which was featured in the PBS production of Ken Burns’ Thomas Jefferson.

This crossover recording appeals to World, Folk, New Age, and Classical listeners.
Street Date : June 2000.
UPC Code : 09016-70130-2
Read back copies of the Gourd Gazette:

Volume I, Number 6 includes reviews of Music on the Mountain and other news of the Gourds.

Vol. I, No. 5 includes reviews of In the Pines and other news of the Gourds.

Vol. I, No. 4 includes excerpts from Danny Carnahan's first musical mystery novel, Death Dances in Jig Time and Tales of the Highway, the first in an occasional series of exciting adventures of Gourds on the road.

Vol. I, No. 3 - has reviews of Pavaneand Celtic Crossing from Dirty Linen Magazine and a review of the Simple Gifts songbook from The Shaker Messenger.

Vol. I, No. 2 - includes Danny Carhahan's amazing tales of Madagascar and Neal Hellman's review of Martin Simpson live at the Fillmore.

Vol. I, No. 1 - includes Neal Hellman's elegiac baseball poem Autumnal Lament.
Neal (in his dulcimer mode) entertaining the wee Amish children in a one room schoolhouse near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Neal Hellman and Welsh diva
Charlotte Church having big fun at Las Vegas NARM show.
Email us at Gourd:
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Last update: May 15, 2000.
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