℗ 2016 Somerset Group,
| Released | April 22, 2016 |
| Duration | 56m 20s |
| Record Label | Avalon |
| Catalogue No. | 64020 |
| Genre | World (Celtic) |
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1.1
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Carrickfergus
Oliver Schroer |
4:44 | |||
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1.2
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Gaelic Air
Oliver Schroer |
6:29 | |||
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1.3
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The Tiree Love Song
Oliver Schroer |
3:34 | |||
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1.4
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Green Grow the Rushes
Oliver Schroer |
5:01 | |||
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1.5
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Waltz of the Young Maidens
Oliver Schroer |
4:08 | |||
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1.6
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The Dark Island
Oliver Schroer |
4:15 | |||
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1.7
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My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose
Oliver Schroer |
5:12 | |||
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1.8
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Annachie Gordon
Oliver Schroer |
6:02 | |||
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1.9
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Give Me Your Hand
Oliver Schroer |
6:24 | |||
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1.10
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The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Oliver Schroer |
4:41 | |||
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1.11
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She Moved Tthrough the Fair
Oliver Schroer |
5:50 |
Oliver Schroer was a Canadian fiddler, composer, and music producer. On this collection of his music, we are given a charming and powerful retrospective, concerning a life devoted to the folk arts and a legacy worth studying.
Oliver Schroer grew up in Vandeleur, Ontario, a small farming community near Markdale in rural Grey County. He attended Grey Highlands Secondary School in Flesherton, where he played French horn in the school band. He also took private violin lessons. He graduated in 1974, having earned several academic awards.
Schroer was dissatisfied with university life, and began to busk in Toronto, playing guitar in the Toronto subway. After several years, he picked up his violin again, but to play fiddle rather than classical music. Eventually, he began to record, and in 1993 released his first album, Jigzup, which was nominated for a Juno Award in the Best Roots or Traditional Album category.
"I used to write a lot of jigs, reels and waltzes – as a matter of fact I still do. But over the years new kinds of melodies emerged – more rarefied, harder to pin down. There were prayers, incantations, whimsies, melismas, mysteriosos, heisenbergs, fractal reels, forest blues, blessings.... They are not so much entertainment tunes, but music that expresses other important things about my relationship to life. This music is, dare I say, more spiritual."
- Oliver Schroer
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Avalon Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.21 -0.41 to 0.00 | -16.46 -18.25 to -15.02 | -13.73 -15.90 to -12.10 | 11 10 to 12 | |
| 1 | Carrickfergus | -0.37 | -17.27 | -14.9 | 11 |
| 2 | Gaelic Air | 0.00 | -16.74 | -14.1 | 12 |
| 3 | The Tiree Love Song | 0.00 | -16.14 | -13.2 | 11 |
| 4 | Green Grow the Rushes | 0.00 | -15.70 | -12.8 | 10 |
| 5 | Waltz of the Young Maidens | 0.00 | -16.41 | -13.1 | 11 |
| 6 | The Dark Island | 0.00 | -16.00 | -13.2 | 11 |
| 7 | My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose | 0.00 | -15.02 | -12.1 | 10 |
| 8 | Annachie Gordon | 0.00 | -17.10 | -14.4 | 11 |
| 9 | Give Me Your Hand | -0.24 | -15.97 | -13.5 | 10 |
| 10 | The Lakes of Pontchartrain | 0.00 | -16.47 | -13.8 | 11 |
| 11 | She Moved Tthrough the Fair | -0.41 | -18.25 | -15.9 | 11 |