The commitment to home

Cathy Jordan may be one or another music listeners as a singer of the Irish folk group Dervish a term. Since 1991 she travels with her five musical collaborators almost continuously from one end of the world to another, and if there may have been even now and then some setbacks (one remembers dark to the sobering performance in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2007), they inspire yet still audiences and critics. The personal musical roots of the members are linked to the influence of Irish music and sometimes enriched by additional elements, such as those of Sweden, which also has an extremely vibrant folk scene. Which brings us to the topic already in the middle.
Dervish have made in recent years to recording studios a larger arc. The last regular album was in 2012 just five years ago, the most recent musical signs of life of the band heard the plate market anno 2010 with the live album "From Stage To Stage". Apparently took Cathy Jordan, these studio out for a couple of their own thoughts, and so the idea of ​​recording a collection of pieces that are connected to memories emerged. Thus, "All The Way Home," a very personal and introverted album, which is "sad" yet "thoughtful" equated neither with having originated. Home - this is the great theme of this album. Cathy Jordan leaves her earliest musical influences reminisce by interpreting songs she heard singing their parents or other family members, she tells how it went afterwards, by disclosing their dreams and aspirations that they lured from their home in the world ("The Road I Go"), being however always upheld the memory of their homeland ("The River Field Waltz"). She compares her own impressions of home with the words of others ("In Curraghroe"), made a brief statement on its here and now, by playing a piece with their fellow musicians that during the recording of "All The Way Home" her producers from the spring flowed ("The Jordan Jig"), before subjecting the values ​​that they continue driven out of the home, a re-evaluation and on her return (the title track).
Cathy Jordan way, which returns from home on some stations back to her, was produced in Sweden, which is a bit weird anmutet considering the theme. Conversely, there are one or two good reason for it. Firstly, the distance may have played a role in itself that suggests that Cathy Jordan is quite capable to consider the topic "from the outside" and to devote an album from a distance, yet the spirit of the home in itself wearing. Second, it follows in this way the opportunity to make the album a little more sober and unexcited as that would probably have been the case at present in the relevant Irish Studios. Earlier have Cathy Jordan and producer Roger Tallroth collaborated, in particular here is the title "Josefin's Waltz" to mention of the Dervish album "At The End Of The Day", which was created together with Väsen, the band of guitarist Tallroth. It also came frequently to joint appearances of the two formations. On Roger Tallroth the clear, unobtrusive sound of the album is probably due, which is very positive impact on the atmosphere. Cathy Jordan's voice stands out clearly from without to drown out the instruments, few effects were used, resulting in many places to the idea of ​​"house music", which the subject is again underlined. Can be found on the side of Jordan a few musicians who has apparently collected in their travels around the world in search of home - artists from Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden or the United States here give the jack in hand, including such sounding names as Eddi Reader, Seamie O'Dowd, Andy Irvine, Michael McGoldrick or Gustaf Ljunggren. They all prepare the carpet for Cathy Jordan, who seems content to rest in yourself when the music from her family or traveling companions bowed, occasionally with an amused little, sometimes with a thoughtful smile. Roger Tallroth prevented - to seek a cliché: Nordic-chillingly - that this very ballad-heavy album fails too pompous or even sugared, instead he focuses solely on the material and Cathy Jordan's voice, creating a self-contained, warm album arises, the very most, it is a lack of one or two little freer songs or a little loosening.
Cathy Jordan told on her solo debut, the story of a journey in a circle, and the professional and a down-home manner. It has become a private, quiet album, comparable to a photo album, which also shows pictures from his earliest youth the interpreter as impressions of the currently active collaboration of musicians in which it is itself at the center. For the performer and the listener, it is certainly a pleasant trip away from the belt structure, the addition can also still about hope in the future to hear again more of Dervish. It is unlikely that Cathy Jordan this album takes the occasion to start a parallel career as a solo performer, to the material is too introverted and has to be closed. "All The Way Home" is probably better understood as a line under a chapter, not as the beginning of a new paragraph. But it would be exciting to get tells an episode from Cathy Jordan's resume by itself again in the near or distant future ... There must be other issues that we can expand on album Distance.