Anonymous 4, Gloryland - 1h 5m 24s

Tracks & Durations

1. I'm on my journey home	2:15
2. An address for all, like Noah's weary dove	4:22
3. Wayfaring stranger	3:58
4. Wayfaring stranger	1:39
5. Where we'll never grow old	3:32
6. Ecstasy	3:24
7. The Wagoner's lad	2:50
8. Mercy-seat	4:14
9. Return again	2:53
10. The Lost girl	3:53
11. Palmetto	3:27
12. Pleading saviour	2:22
13. Merrick	4:25
14. The Shining shore	4:45
15. Saint's delight	4:00
16. Just over in the Gloryland	2:57
17. You fair and pretty ladies	3:38
18. Parting friends, wayfaring stranger	2:44
19. Green pastures	3:55

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Review

Having left medieval chant and somewhat later polyphony behind and moved, musically, across the Atlantic with their last CD (American Angels), the women of Anonymous 4 are still exploring. For their move up a few centuries, their impeccable tonal purity remains, but a decidedly American twang has been added to some of the folksier, Southern mountain-based tunes and revival songs. It's as accurate and enchanting as everything else they do. Their sense of history, the when and where of the music they perform, manages to avoid academic stuffiness: this music communicates. Hymns, ballads, and revival songs make up Gloryland, and the 4 have added superb instrumentalists--Darol Anger and Mike Marshall on fiddles, mandolins, and guitars--to the mix on about half the selections. Some of the songs are begun in simple solfege* (fa, sol, la, mi, etc.) and then are sung with the actual text. Some are presented as duets or solos, and "I'm on My Journey Home" is sung by all four women; some are simple, others delightfully rich harmonically. Irresistible. --Robert Levine

* Often called "shape-note" singing because the tones were frequently notated in differently shaped symbols for teaching purposes (fa = triangle, sol = circle, etc.).

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Gloryland

Tracks: 19, Disk length: 1h 4m 46s (-1m 22s)

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