Salsa Céltica - Last 3 Albums

The Edinburgh-based eleven-piece band are an increasingly important name on the UK’s World Music scene, having stolen the show at gigs and festivals throughout the world with their unprecedented high-energy fusion of Latin and Celtic sounds and rhythms.
Apparently against the odds, one style flows naturally into another, creating a magical instrumental mix that blends bagpipes with congas, brass with fiddles. The result has been an exuberant fan base and a growing reputation for this broad collective of musicians which includes artists from Cuba, Ireland, Scotland and Venezuela among its number.




One of the toughest challenges facing any British-based salsa group is to create a disc that jumps the barrier of prejudices concerning authenticity. Salsa Celtica do this with a completely original brew of Latin and Celtic sounds…Hot stuff!"

Tracklist
01 - Rumba Escocia
02 - Cro Chinn t-Saile
03 - El Portabello Malacon
04 - Milonga For Iona
05 - Yo Me Voy / Maggie’s Pancakes
06 - Flaquita
07 - Fuerte
08 - Vampiras
09 - Carnoustie Albatross
10 - Leonardo Capanga
11 - Estrellita Celta
12 - El Capitan





An exciting album with a big, big sound! Salsa Céltica have established themselves as one of the hottest bands on the World, Latin and Celtic music circuits, having performed their own special blend of Latin and Scottish music worldwide, from Hollywood (via Toronto, New York, Gran Canaria, Paris and Edinburgh) to Singapore.
Twenty three musicians from Scotland, England, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, New York and Shetland feature on El Agua De La Vida, with most of the material written by Toby Shippey and other members of the band.



01 - Cumbia Céltica
02 - El sol de la noche
03 - Guajira sin sol
04 - El agua de la vida
05 - Whikey con ron
06 - Ave María morena
07 - Maestro
08 - Adiós, adiós
09 - Auld Lang Syne
10 - Cafe Collando (Live Vid @ 42nd Cambridge Folk Festival 2006)
{Separate Download on RS only}






This is a great album-it manages to combine the vigour of Latin American music with the instrumentalist of Irish and Scottish folk. It's probably not for purists of either form of music, but the combination works well.

Tracklist
01 - Pa’l Rumberos 4.52
02 - Esperanza 5.21
03 - An Cailleach 2.44
04 - Cuando Me Vaya 4.39
05 - Córrela 5.00
06 - Café Colando 3.46
07 - Café Colando (Part 2) 3.16
08 - Grey Gallito 5.04
09 - Luna Llena 4.39
10 - Luna Celosa 2.28
11 - Fuego, Alma y Paz 3.40
12 - Ya Llegó 2.24



Toby Shippey, trompeta
Lino Rocha, voces
Dougie 'El Pulpo' Hudson, congas
Adam Sutherland, violín
Phil Alexander, piano
David 'Demus' Donnelly, bajo
Steve Kettley, saxo, flauta, arpa
Éamonn Coyne, banjo, guitarra tenor
Fraser Fifield, gaitas, whistle, saxo
Ryan Quigley, trompeta
David 'El Chimpo' Robertson, bongos, percusión
Chris Stout, violín
Eric Alfonso, timbales



Band Biog
Salsa Céltica's synthesis of Scottish and Irish traditional music with all the Latin American elements of salsa has taken them and their music all over the world. In the last ten years the group has been a hit equally at major celtic, jazz, world music and salsa festivals. Their albums have topped the New York and L.A. salsa charts and European world music charts, the band has been nominated for folk music awards and appeared as themselves in a feature film.

Their lineup combines some of Scotland and Ireland's most exciting traditional musicians together with a stellar group of world, jazz and salsa musicians from the U.K. and Latin America. Salsa Céltica is a stunning combination of virtuosity and energy, making them one of the most exciting groups on the world music circuit today. Started in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1995 Salsa Céltica has gone on to invent their own genre and then take it around the world and back again to critical and public acclaim.