Nice Compiliation of Videos and Interviews
This is a compiliation of a number of the videos made by this durable Irish muscial group. To some extent Clannad defies description: its albums have ranged from Seventies efforts containing relatively raw folk songs sung in Gaelic, albeit always with a hard-to-describe spiritual sense that separated the group from The Chieftans and other more "tradiional" Irish pub groups, to less successful mid-Eighties "polished" efforts with Bruce Hornsby and Steve Perry of the rock group Journey that look and sound like dated arena-rock, to their last Grammy-winning album "Landmarks" in which the group combines accessible music with choral harmonies and Gaelic ruminations which seem to reflect a profound sense of the mysteries of life. The videos represented here include "Harry's Game," the music created for a BBC television thriller set in Northern Ireland but which gained a wider audience by being featured in the movie "Patriot Games" (in which a character watched the video onscreen) and a VW commercial, and "In a Lifetime," Maire Brennan's duet with Bono. Also included are some less well-known songs, brief interviews with the band, which provide some welcome insights, and a brief snippet of the group playing a concert in its hometown; one wishes that the entire concert was included here. Highly recommended!