This brilliant young piper from the Celtic-influenced northern province of Spain has excited the traditional music world with her astonishing skill and enthusiasm. Descending from a long line of builders and players of the gaita (the ancient Galician bagpipe), she has truly mastered the instrument, infusing the complex traditional melodies and embellishments with expressiveness, vibrancy and joy. On this excellent debut album, first released on the Do Fol label and domestically released in 2000, she is accompanied bouzouki, accordion, guitar, percussion (much of she plays herself: djembe, darbuka, drum, tambourine). Recommended!

Susana Seivane is the eponymous debut album by Galician gaita (bagpipes) player Susana Seivane, released in 1999.

History

The album has a wide diversity of time-signatures. The arrangements are by Rodrigo Romani of Milladoiro, Brais Maceiras and Seivane. This her most traditional album to date, with no rock elements, and many traditional songs.

Seivane sings two songs (tracks 5 and 12) the first solo, the second with Sonia Lebedynski, sung in Gallego. The liner notes contain a photograph of her playing bagpipes in a procession in folk costume at the age of three. From a technical point of view "Xota dos 28 puntos" has the most complex playing technique. The liner notes are in Spanish and English.

Reception

Music critic Peggy Latkovich wrote in her Allmusic review "... her playing is confident with a fine rhythmic sweep. The simple arrangements, though a bit dry at times, keep the spotlight on her performance. Since the nasal moan of Galician pipes is an acquired taste for many, this can be seen as a plus or a minus... There's a good variety of tune types, from traditional jotas (dance tunes) to newly composed waltzes and rumbas... Seivane shows a lot of promise. It will be interesting to watch her develop as an artist."

Personnel

*Susana Seivane – bagpipes in B, bagpipes in C, djembe, drum, tambourine, darbuka, vocals

*Brais Maceiras – diatonic accordion, tin whistle

*Rodrigo Romani – bouzouki, acoustic guitar, zither, ocarina, keyboards, marinba

*Kim Garcia – bass guitar, double bass

*Beto Niebla – drum

*Anxo Pintos – zanfona/hurdy-gurdy

*Laura Quintilan – violin

*Xose Luz – traverse flute

*Xose Ferreiros – oboe, bodhran, rattles

*Sonia Lebedynski – vocals

References

Category:1999 albums

Category:Susana Seivane albums

Category:Debut albums

gl:Susana Seivane (álbum)

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Artist/Band Information

Susana Seivane Hoyo (born 25 August 1976) is a Galician gaita (bagpipes) player. She was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a family of well-known Galician luthiers and musicians, the Seivane family, whose workshop is the Obradoiro de Gaitas Seivane. She started her musical career at the age of three. Guided by her father Álvaro Seivane and influenced by skilled bagpipers such as her grandfather Xosé Manuel Seivane, Ricardo Portela and Moxenas, she notable in the bagpipe world and the world of traditional Galician music. She synthesizes the "enxebre" style of the ancient bagpipers while creating her own style including other musical influences.

Festivals

From 1999, when Susana Seivane issued her first album, the gaiteira gave many concerts and participated in festivals in Spain, other European countries and the United States and receiving praise from the public and from critics. She goes to many important national and international festivals and travels around the world, having attended the Festival Celtic Connections in Scotland, the Festival Rudolstadt in Germany, the Dranouter Fest in Belgium, the Irish Festival in Italy, the Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany, the Brampton Festival, Eastleigh Summer Music Festival, and Cambridge Folk Festival in England, and the Malahide International Festival of Piping & Drumming in Ireland. In France she has performed in concert in Paris, Nantes, Lyons, Les Irlandays, Juvisy sur Orge, the Festival du Bout du Monde and the Festival de Saint-Loup in Guingamp. In Spain she has played at the Festival Folk de Getxo, the Mercat de la Música Viva de Vic in Barcelona, La Mar de Músicas at Cartagena, the Festival Mendébala de Bizkaia, the Festival Folk de Segovia, San Froilán de Barcelona, Karrantza de Bizkaia, and the Festival Folk de Cantabria. She often appears in Galicia at venues such as the Festival do mundo celta de Ortigueira, San Froilán en Lugo, Festas de Maria Pita, Praza Maior de Ourense, Praza da Quintana de Santiago de Compostela, and Pontevedra.

Discography

*Susana Seivane (1999)

*Alma de buxo (2001)

*Mares de tempo (2004)

*Os soños que volven (2009)

Compilations

*Celtic Colours; Vol 4 (2001) (1 song)

*Celtic Women (Keltia)

Prizes

*Finalist in the Indie Awards 2001

*4th Premio Xarmenta in 2008 for her defense of the Galician language

*Premio Artista of the TVG

*Premio Opinión (twice)

*Star of the year

Press

*"With her, folk regains grounds for hope"--ABC

*"Her way of understanding bagpipes, far from being experimental or open, speaks from the tradition"--ABC

*"Susana Seivane, caste bagpiper: although the Galician tradition was always at the centre of Susana Seivane's musical life, this muse of bagpipes injects a renewed and innovative flavouring to her songs and records. Susana Seivane is an inspired and inspiring muse, especially when she sails the seas of time with the sounds of her magic gaita"--World Music

*"Her concerts are, surely, the most refined expression that Galician traditional music can reach"--Diario de Pontevedra

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