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Liminality
Cath
Connelly and Greg Hunt call themselves Liminality - the
threshold space where our known experience merges with the
enigmatic. True to their Celtic roots, Cath and Greg combine
Celtic harp, violin and mandola in a stunning collaboration that is
more than the sum of their parts.
The
instruments fuse beautifully in a presentation of music on the
Celtic threshold.
Cath and
Greg's most recent collaboration is a Christmas album. Angels We
Have Heard was released in 2008, just in time for Christmas!
In an
interview for outer-eastern Melbourne paper Upper Gully
News, Cath described this new collaboration with
Greg...
“It’s the
Christmas album we've been dreaming of for years! I was able
to collaborate with [Melbourne-based fiddle player] Greg Hunt once
again. He’s a truly amazing talent, with such a sensitivity
on any instrument he picks up, be it violin or viola, mandolin or
mandola.
“And once
again, we found we were totally on the same wavelength with this
album. In the recording studio, we were both so aware of
tapping into something deeper through our music, whether it was our
interpretation of traditional Christmas tunes or the couple of
original compositions on a Christmas theme.”
Would it be
fair to say this new album has caught a somewhat gentler, more
reflective angle on Christmas than perhaps other CDs out there at
this time of year?
“Oh
definitely. Look, it’s pretty hard to do Jingle Bells and
Drummer Boy with a Celtic harp, and both Greg and I were very
conscious of wanting to do something a bit different."
The spirit
of this album is about an invitation to go deeper during a time of
year when the busyness can be overwhelming.
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