Susan McKeown, Prophecy - 38m 2s

Tracks & Durations

1. Be Brave Love Be Strong	3:55
2. River	3:44
3. Chances Are	4:48
4. Wheels of the World	3:33
5. Seven Cold Glories	3:11
6. What Did I Ever Do To You?	2:29
7. Because I could not stop for Death	3:50
8. Ballinaboula	4:15
9. South	5:31
10. Prophecy	2:38

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Review

The follow-up to their debut 'Bones' (SNG/Prime 1995), 'Prophecy' is "a record of many brilliant moods" (puremusic.com) from Susan McKeown & The Chanting House. Progressive, hard-edged folk-rock, 'Prophecy' "packs a serious belly-punch to complacency and indifference, and adds further ammunition to her reputation as an uncompromising writer and singer." (Irish Times) 'Be Brave, Love, Be Strong' leads off the album with Susan's defiant , soaring vocals before a metaphor of hope is invoked on 'River', "as poetic a plea for peace in Ireland as the world could wish" (Willamette Week). Natalie Merchant joins Susan in the incantation of the names of Ireland's rivers on this song, and in a duet on 'Because I could not stop for Death', the haunting Emily Dickinson poem set to music by McKeown. "'Chances Are' is as fine a capturing of the brittleness of relationships as you'll encounter" (Irish Times). 'Seven Cold Glories' is inspired by poems by Yeats and Eva Gore-Booth, and dedicated to the memory of Ann Lovett, the fifteen-year-old schoolgirl who died alone in childbirth at the foot of a statue of the Virgin Mary in an Irish churchyard in 1994. Also on the album, 'Prophecy'. "The lush title track, with its nostalgic feel and dissonant carnival organ backing, is a gem." (Hot Press, Ireland) Co-written with bandmate and co-producer Jon Spurney, the song was inspired by a tale of the dark Irish fairy Otherworld: McKeown saw it as eerily appropriate for New York City. "And we must weep and we must sing/And keep the little flame flickering." Throughout, Susan is accompanied by Spurney and longtime Chanting House members Lindsey Horner , Michelle Kinney and Joe Trump, as well as Jeff Allen, Allison Miller and Catherine Bent. Guests on the album include: Natalie Merchant, Johnny Cunningham, Gerry Leonard and Russ Johnson

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