Donovan - Celtia [Unreleased Album]

 Celtia is an unreleased album that was recorded in February 1990 at Sulan Studios, Ireland. There's no record of this album until 2003, in issue number 17 of Pat Hehir's fanzine, Donovan's Friends. Suddenly, in that year of 2003 the album is supposed to be on sale, under the fictitious Durga Records label. There's no reliable proof about this fact, and there is no evidence that Durga Records ever released Celtia, you run into the same story over and over again on the Internet when looking for information about this album. According to Pat Hehir, after the disappointment of One Night In Time not being released, he took Donovan to Ireland to start a new project: Celtia. Hehir and Donovan went into Sulan studios, in southern Ireland, with a bunch of magnificent but not at the time very well known musicians, to join Donovan. Like in the old times, it took them just eight days to record the whole album. These songs were more rehearsal songs never intended for issue, until Hehir decided otherwise. The album was arranged by Maire Bhretnach and engineered by Dan Fitgerald.

Musicians:
· Donovan: acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals.
· David Gilmour: guitar.
· Nigel Kennedy: violin.
· Sharon Shannon: box accordion and fiddle.
· Noël Bridgeman: congas, drums and percussion.
· Anthony Thistlewait: mandolin and slide mandolin.
· Colin Blakey: whistles and flutes.
· Eleonor McIvoy: violin and backing vocals.
· Maire Bhretnach: violin, celtic strings, backing vocals and electric violin.
· Dan Fitgerald: tambourine.
· Steeve Cooney: bass, didgeridoo, lead acoustic guitar, bass and finger picking guitar.
· Mandy Murphy: backing vocals.
· Astrella Celeste: spoken.

01. Watching The Sun Go Down

02. Moon Over Clare

03. Glasgow Town

04. The Ferryman's Daughter

05. Ghost Of Pagan Song

06. Where Are You Now

07. Living On Love

08. Madrigalinda

09. Lake Isle Of Innisfree

10. I Love You

11. Wahine

12. Down By The Harbour

13. Against Your Will

14. Rock Me

15. Lover O Lover

16. Awakening Year

17. Everlasting Sea

link to the free album

Donovan - Celtia [Unreleased Album]