Susana Seivane is the eponymous debut album by Galician

Galician people

The Galicians are an ethnic group, a nationality whose historical homeland is Galicia in north-western Spain. Most Galicians are bilingual, speaking both their historic language, Galician, and Castilian Spanish.-Political and administrative divisions:...

 gaita

Gaita

Gaita may refer to:Musical instruments*Various types of bagpipes common to Spain and Portugal such as:** Gaita asturiana, a bagpipe used in the Spanish provinces of Asturias, northern León and western Cantabria...

 (bagpipes

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...

) player Susana Seivane

Susana Seivane

Susana Seivane Hoyo is a Galician gaita 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...

, released in 1999.

History

The album has a wide diversity of time-signatures. The arrangements are by Rodrigo Romani of Milladoiro

Milladoiro

Milladoiro is a music band from Galicia. Often compared to the Chieftains, it is among the world's top Celtic music groups.- Biography :Rodrigo Romaní and Antón Seoane had released in 1978 an album named Milladoiro, on which they were joined by Xosé V. Ferreirós, then credited as a guest artist...

, 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

Galician language

Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...

. 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

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

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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."

Track listing

1. "Jotabe" (Melo Suarez)
2. "Taramundi/ Alen" (Traditional, Suarez)
3. "Xota de Ninodaguia/Muineira do Muino de Peizas/Polca para Erica" (Beito Romero, Raul #Galego, Anton Varela)
4. "Pasacorredoiras de Ponteareas" (Traditional)
5. "Alala de Vilalba" (Lyrics: Traditional/Music: Rodrigo Romani)
6. "Sabelina" (Seivane)
7. "Marcha procesional dos Mato" (Unknown)
8. "Fonsagrada" (Traditional)
9. "Xota dos 28 puntos" (Traditional)
10. "Maneo (song)" (Unknown)
11. "A cotula" (Unknown)
12. "Savinao/Pasodoble de Pousada" (Traditional)
13. "3 Muineiras (do Vello Rilo/de Manuel do Pazo/de Ambite)" (Traditional)

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