【鋼琴單曲】The Flight of the Earls

Composer, producer and performer Phil Coulter was the reigning king of contemporary Celtic music, becoming the best-selling Irish artist of his generation. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1942, Coulter began his career while studying music at Belfast's Queens University, writing the Capitol Showband's 1963 hit "Foolin' Time" and later penning the ensemble's 1965 Eurovision Song Contest entry "Walking the Streets in the Rain." Other notable compositions of the era include Twinkle's 1964 smash "Terry" and Them's oft-covered garage-rock classic "I Can Only Give You Everything." Still, Coulter enjoyed his greatest success as a writer after teaming up with collaborator Bill Martin; together they authored some of the biggest pop hits of the period, including Sandie Shaw's Eurovision-winning "Puppet on a String" and Cliff Richard's "Congratulations." Despite his pop success, he remained drawn to the Irish folk of his youth, working with acts including the Dubliners, Planxty and the Furey Brothers while concurrently writing a series of hits for the Bay City Rollers. After his partnership with Martin ended during the late '70s, Coulter turned increasingly to performing, and in 1983 issued his solo debut Classic Tranquility; its meditative, lushly-orchestrated renditions of traditional Celtic favorites immediately scored with Irish audiences, and on the strength of subsequent efforts including 1984's Sea of Tranquility and 1985's Phil Coulter's Ireland, he emerged as the country's best-selling artist. Later material including 1990's Words and Music, 1993's Recollections and 2000's Highland Cathedral introduced Coulter to a growing international audience as well. The intimate Songs I Love So Well was issued on Shanachie in early 2001. Phil Coulter may have made his name way back when as a writer of pop hits, but since then he's practiced his craft on a broader musical canvas. Here the art becomes more intimate, dealing as it does with a most specific place in Ireland, Lough Swilly, and its associations, both warm and tragic, with his own history. In the '80s, the lake claimed the lives of both his brother and sister, but he remains drawn to it, and its pristine memories of his childhood vacations. The musical result isn't a million miles from the neo-classical Celticisms of Peadar O'Riada — who helps out here — but also tinged with sorrow, as on "The Shores of the Swilly," beautifully and sparely sung by Sinead O'Connor, which is the tale of Cyd Coulter's death. There's history in actor Liam Neeson's spoken-word piece, "The Flight of the Earls," and the mournful simplicity of the hymn "For Those in Peril on the Sea." There's also plenty of orchestral sweep to the melodies, evoking the water, which brings some of the album perilously close to new age music. Always, though, Coulter knows when to back off and not let things go too far. Even "Prayer for the Fishermen," with Roma Downey's invocation, never reaches overkill. In essence, this album is a catharsis of spirit and a memorial, and Coulter's touch ensures that it succeeds as both.

The Flight of the Earls

[Autumn]

魚兒，涼涼，笛笛，謝謝你們的關心。我的燒剛退就被朋友們挾持外出度假去了，行前匆匆，未及留下片言隻語，然後又一直不能上網，害你們掛念，很不好意思。

這些天一直很想念大家，今天回來就在第一時間衝上來了。真誠希望你們度過了一個快樂的周末~~~

[簫笛]

水流友說得對，多喝水，但治療感冒最有效的是大碗熱雞湯！還有就是檸檬水加蜂蜜！病毒性感冒沒有特效藥，試試蜂膠吧：
Propolis, 在Whole Foods有售，有些華人藥鋪也有噴式的蜂膠銷售

[簫笛]

問好秋秋，衷心為你祈福！

[秋涼如我心]

來問候一句：秋兒，好點了嗎？！

希望你早日康複！！

[微笑的魚]

秋好些了沒有啊，今晚被水折騰得都快夜裏三點了，唉，還要交卷，又不能交白卷，臨下前來問問秋好些了沒有？快點好起來哦　：）

[Autumn]

也許真正在陰陽兩界徘徊過才會懂得珍惜，秋匆匆走了個過場，還沒來得及體驗什麽就給打發回來了，所以才會覺得好玩。不過，涼涼說的對，那種體驗沒有也沒什麽好可惜的，過界時雖然不痛，可準備工作的滋味真不怎樣。

非常同意水是個好東東這話@@~~~ 雖然不像是感冒，可也一直很虔誠地灌冰水，相信多喝水不會有錯。平時水就是秋日常起居不可或缺的要素，這個時刻當然更少不了水的支持啦。

今天不燒了，就是走路還有些打晃兒，估計躺了兩天有些忘了直立狀態的一些動作切換。

嗯，貧歸貧，其實內心裏非常感激朋友們的關心。不說謝了，隻希望你們珍惜自己的身體，親人和朋友的健康和快樂是我最高的期待和最大的安慰。

[water6]

你這丫頭, 怎麽會鬧的這麽重? 燒到那溫度, 應該是病毒性感冒了. Tylenol要用, 燒就是退了, 藥還要用正常劑量鞏固一下, 以免反複.

多喝水吧, 不管想不想喝. 拿大杯子盡著灌. 水在這時最是好東東了 ~~.

問涼飛魚好. 涼涼說的對, 多為愛自己的人們保重自己 :)).

[秋涼如我心]

保重！秋秋！！

人生有些體驗還是沒有的好，兩界之間的來去並不輕鬆！

涼涼也體驗過，當然不是因病。但絕不輕鬆！

隻希望朋友愛惜自己，愛惜在乎你的人。

祝福你，好朋友！

[Autumn]

太感謝眾“花癡”的厚愛和解惑，才明白這道理，難怪一直覺得自己笨乎乎兒的，原來是好久沒有發燒的緣故呀。傷風感冒倒是常客，可真記不起來上一次發燒是何年何月了，這次算是一次清賬，燒了個痛快。不錯，當體溫升到104度時終於開了竅，知道爬起來找Tylenol，待本癡踩著朵朵彩雲“飄”進盥洗間打開醫藥櫃，未及搞清狀況就被請到另外一個空間站進行短期造訪，回來後的第一個感覺就是房間裏的燈光太刺眼了。對於這番經曆感到無比興奮，人生又多了一種體驗，原來兩界之間不過一步之遙，可以很輕鬆地來來去去哦~~~

在牛劑量的藥物控製下，體溫終於降下來了，嗯，96度不會是降得過分了點吧？

這個網速慢嘛，用俺這剛剛開了點智竅的小腦袋瓜初步分析一下，大概是網也發燒了，除了敷冰袋，也可以試試Tylenol，哈哈。BTW，在本癡無力參與的情況下，諸位還需要快捷的網速嗎？--- Hey, 難道這就是水所預言的智竅？

[飛飛~]

真是的，秋秋怎麽這麽大熱天的生病啊，讓俺這個新加入的花癡好心疼呢。好好休息多喝水啊。：)
也發現這幾天網速奇慢，家裏上班處都是這樣。連個音樂聽的都是斷斷續續的。：((

[微笑的魚]

給秋送個冰袋 ：），水也不知哪聽來的什麽開智竅，這條對秋管用，對我剛好相反，嘻嘻

家裏這兩天網速不知為何象蝸牛一樣，本來想去那邊頂水的，想想自己也是半夜還沒睡，不過非但不是愈加聰慧，是一點聰慧也不沾邊，就不去那湊熱鬧了

同喜此曲，唉，好的音樂真是想不迷離都難。。。。。。

秋快點好起來哦 ：）

已過午夜，雖沒什麽力氣，還是很想借個肩膀讓秋靠靠

[water6]

這大熱的天還發... 好吧, 都說好孩子一年要病一回才開智竅. 恭喜秋更聰明了 ~~~~~

這主題音樂一起, 那獨特的旋律就能把思緒抽離...... 好曲.

[Autumn]

汗，沒有放上音樂就把帖子貼出來了。

今天臥病在床，溫度剛下來一些就跑上來貼音樂，真佩服自己。

這首曲子喜歡了很久很久了，凱爾特音樂總有種深厚悠遠的味道令人迷戀，也許這就是一種文化的魅力吧。Lake of shadows的確是個不錯的集子，尤其喜歡這一首……