Haunted By Waters

"...when the occasional gem comes along, it's reason to rejoice...the instrumental sound is impressive...intelligent, humane, artistic songwriting is the key to Haunted By Waters." - BAM Magazine

"...multi-textured, pop/world beat. A kinder, mellower Height for the `90s: incubation over revolution, musical instruction over wigged-out improvisation..." -  Option Magazine

Haunted By Waters is a group of bay area musicians and artists who have created an exciting and powerful blend of music which is truly -cross cultural. Fusing together sensual Middle Eastern melodies, Celtic vocals, driving rhythms, & soaring synth sounds, "Like the Dust" is a unique album which celebrates spirit, unity and diversity.

The music of Haunted By Waters is built on a primal and infectious rhythmic background of Middle Eastern, African, and Celtic rhythms and percussion. Weaving in lush vocals, rich melodies and harmonies, and sensuous electronic textures, they create a progressive, entrancing world sound. Add fretless electric bass, textural and distorted electric guitars, acoustic guitar, synth and sampled sounds, as well as didgeridoo, tin whistle, conch shell, electric violin, and flute and you have a powerful, evocative sound. At once ancient and futuristic, Haunted By Waters seamlessly combine a galaxy of diverse influences and instrumentation into a cohesive and moving soundscape.

Each individual member of Haunted By Waters is a musician of international caliber on the cutting edge of world music and multimedia technology:

Co-founder and guitarist David Hannibal has been working with synthesizer and sampling technology for many years for companies such as E-mu Systems, Oberheim, and Q-up Arts. His sampling work can be heard on recordings by XTC and Fishbone; in prime time television series ; and in major motion pictures (Batman, Bram Stokers Dracula). He also composed the soundtrack for a feature film by Roy Finch called "Follow Me Home".

Born and raised in Ireland and steeped in the tradition of Celtic folk music and theater, co-founder and vocalist Cait McWhir is a wonderful Irish singer with a stunningly rich and yearning voice, who also adds her talents on percussion and tin whistle to the ensemble. "As a singer I am interested in exploring the depth and breadth of human experience through the medium of the voice. My musical journey began in Ireland where I grew up. Ireland is full of music. Everywhere you go you hear it. Even the lakes, the valleys, the trees and the wind sing loudly in Ireland. There is often a mournful and haunting quality to these sounds which you can hear in Irish music, along with the more lilting and joyful music which you can hear in jigs and reels of people playing music...in kitchens, in pubs, everywhere!" Cait McWhir

Synthesist/guitarist/singer Gerry Basserman is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music worked in San Francisco producing sound tracks for video and multimedia companies in addition to designing products and sounds for many electronic music companies. He worked for EMU systems for 7 years and Opcode Syatems for 6 years. He was a writer for Electronic Musician and he is presently at Propellerhead Software, a creative music and video software company. 

Percussionist extraordinaire Tina "Bean" Blaine is a founder of the popular multimedia ensemble D'CuCKOO. She has studied with master Senegalese and Congolese drummers, and recorded with Brian Eno and Mickey Hart. With a solid background in keyboards, percussion, and electronic marimba, Bean has composed music for television soundtracks ("The Making of The Abyss" and "Peanuts") and video games (Sega/Genesis). She has also appeared in international TV features.

Haunted by Waters is:

Cait McWhir — lead vocals, tin whistle, percussion
David Hannibal — electric & acoustic guitars, keyboards, didgeridoo, programming
Gerry Bassermann — keyboards, 6 & 12 string guitars, vocals
Tina "Bean" Blaine — drums, percussion, vocals
Greg Stone — Bass
Rhan Wilson — drums, percussion
Cat Taylor — electric violin
Stephen Schultz — baroque flute and processed baroque flute

Review - Rambles.NET

Review

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Album Details:

Like The Dust

Style/Genre: World / Ambient / Celtic
Instrumentation: Soaring Female Lead Vocals, Electric/Acoustic/Classical Guitars, Didgeridu, Keyboards, Programming, Bass, Electric Violin, Tin Whistle, Bodhran, Djembe, Fish'head, Finger Cymbals, Conch Shell, Alto Sax, Vir'cello, Drums, Congas, Dumbec, Udu, Baroque Flute & Processed Baroque Flute, Tabla, Bongos, Rainstick.

Tracks:

1. The Coming of Lugh 6:33
2. Winds of Love 5:56
3. Hideaway 6:02 
4. Like the Dust 6:20 
5. Shasta the Wanderer 7:08
6. Drowning in the Waters 7:06 
7. M'bayata 4:19 
8. Jalne Jalne 7:03 
9. Impassioné 6:00 
10. Pray 6:56 
11. Camille 4:20 

Single (Single) 
1. Flame 5:30 

Item # CD 1003-2

All songs written produced & arranged by Haunted by Waters.

All songs published by Minerva Music/Haunted by Waters 1995.

David Hannibal - Electric & Classical Guitar, Didgeridoo, Keyboards, Programming 
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Tin Whistle, Bodhran, Djembe, Fish'head, Finger Cymbals 
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Acoustic Guitars, Vocals, Programming, Conch Shell, Alto Sax, Vir'cello, Drums 
Tina Blaine aka. 'Bean' - Drums, Backing Vocals, Djembe, Congas, Dumbec, Udu Drums

& special guests 

Greg Stone - Bass
Stephen Schultz - Baroque Flute & Processed Baroque Flute (Camille, Hideaway) 
Rhan Wilson - Drums, Tabla, Bongos - (Camille, Drowning) 
Cat Taylor - Electric Violin (Dust) 
Diana Maxwell - Rainstick (Impasssione)

The Coming of Lugh, Impassioné, M'Bayata, Shasta, Drowning, Pray - Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine 
Hideaway, Like the Dust, Flame, Jalne Jalne, Camille - Hannibal/McWhir 
Winds of Love - Trad: Arranged by Haunted By Waters

Recording and Engineering - Gerry Bassermann & David Hannibal 
Produced by - Haunted By Waters 
Mixing Engineer - Stephen Hart 
Production Assistance - Aldoush Alpanian 
Executive Producers - X DOT 25 Music
Production/Mixing - Mesa Recording, Sebastopol, California. 
Mastered by - Michael Romanowski at Rocket Lab, San Francisco

Band Photos - Susan Scott
Cover art by: RAVEN FX (Harry Tanielian) raven@ravenfx.com

Special thanks to:
Diana Maxwell, Stephen Hart, Max Ahmadi, Stephen Schultz, Rhan Wilson, Cat Taylor, Jeff Obee, Jeffree Andrews. Aldoush Alpanian, Kenny at Mesa Studios, Dave at CRI, John Dalton, Candice Pacheco, Steve Boeddeker, Mike Freitas, Mackie Designs, Opcode Systems,  E-Mu Systems, Roy Finch at Sonos, Michael Marans, Magenta Crowe, Frank Giorgini, Matt Isaacson, Jeff Barbour.

Lyrics

The Coming of Lugh (Gaelic: Tadhbhas de Lugh)

This song is based on a story in Irish mythology about the great Celtic warrior Lugh Lauve Fauda. He was known as the Ildana, the master of all crafts, and was said to have appeared on a white horse holding the lost Sword of Light. His mission was to deliver Ireland and the tribe of the De Danaans from the evil of the Fomor and Balor the one-eyed, which he accomplished aided only by a small band of warriors from the mythical land of Tir-Na-Nog.

Winds of Love

The Winds of Love are blowing at us 
They're standing at the crossroads of the valley 
Oh you winds of love help me
Will you take me to my homeland 
If I wasn't so afraid to go there
I'm so afraid that I would grow
Old in this land of exile 
Take me to the land of my beloved

Hideaway

Used to be easy to hide my feelings away from you
Bury my feelings away
Inside….
And do you know how I wanna try
To make it easier to understand
That something's different now
It’s gonna be different now

Gotta’ be real about it
Throw caution to the wind this time
You don’t know how hard I've been trying
To turning my back and walkaway
From love, from love

It’s natural for me to want to be with you
To be your friend 
All the reasons besides
Just a man and a woman 
And I can see myself in you
A part of me that's holding on 
Do you wanna let go
Let go of the past....

Gotta’ be real about it
Throw caution to the wind this time
You don’t know how hard I've been trying
To turning my back and walkaway

I never wanted to lie to you 
And if I separate myself from you
Will you understand why I can't turn my back 
And hideaway from love
From love, from love

Gotta’ be real about it
Throw caution to the wind this time
You don’t know how hard I've been trying
To turning my back and walkaway

I never wanted to lie to you
And if I separate myself from you
Will you understand why I can't turn my back 
And hideaway from love
From love, from love

Like the Dust

On a train goin' nowhere 
It's an empty road ahead
If you wanna get out of the desert
Forests are burning into the night
Green fields are going brown, everywhere
Earth is scorched by the sun 
And we're killing the sacred land

We live on
We live on our heart

If you wanna see, wanna feel,
Wanna try and make any change 
Before its too late
You've gotta' let
Gotta' let go of the past 
Gotta’ change the way we think about our lives

We don't have a choice anymore
We don't have a choice anymore
Anymore....

Drowning ourselves in a sea of confusion
Overloaded senses too many illusions 
Everyday living's a poison
That can settle on you like a dust....

If you wanna see, wanna feel,
Wanna try and make any change 
Before its too late
You've gotta' let
Gotta' let go of the past 
Gotta’ change the way we think about our lives

We don't have a choice anymore
We don't have a choice anymore
Anymore....

Shasta the Wanderer

Don't know how to tell you
Now you're gone 
Don't know how to say 
What's right or wrong 
Could have been different 
Who's to say
Why we go so far away?

Ya, Ya , Ya, Ya, Far away

Something you believe in 
All our dreams 
Nothing ever is the way it seems
Tried to make you change your mind
Easier for us to leave behind

Ya, Ya , Ya, Ya, Far behind

If there is a reason
Let it go
If there is an answer
Let it show
Could have been different 
Who's to say 
Why we go so far away

Ya, Ya , Ya, Ya, Far away

Drowning in the Waters

You wait
          I wait... 
                  Waiting for the love
To reveal itself again

Last night I called your name
Softly to the wind for her to carry 
This seems so easy to believe 
Or is it only for our souls to dream?

Unfolding moments of your destiny
Another knowing of your soul 
Recognition of your heart's desire
Love within is never cold.....

Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters of your soul.......

Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters of your soul.......

Unspeakable like destiny
Surrender to uncertainty
To let it go
Let it unfold is heaven's way

The path that leads me to this place
Is tangled up in love's desire
To satisfy some of the hunger in my soul

To laugh to love to breathe again
To fall in love with life again
To let it go
Let it unfold
Is heaven's way

Unfolding moments of your destiny
Another knowing of your soul 
Recognition of your heart's desire
Love within is never cold.....

Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters of your soul.......

Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters
Drown me in the waters of your soul.......

Jalne Jalne

inspired by the Macedonian folksong "Se Vradse Vradse Jalno Sonce"

There's something calling out to you
That seeks to pierce the ignorance 
Deliverance to understand
The Knowledge that you bring
Infinite a wisdom forced
To seek eventuality
Rebirth all is life and death
I see it circle round
Around, around
Around, around
Around

Pray (inspired by Nelson Mandela)

Now we can begin 
The time has come at last 
Let go of all the hate 
Surrender of the past

Pray for the other 
Wait for the change 
Love never leaves you 
Hope stays the same

Time to come together 
We can make the change
If faith never leaves you
The world's not the same
Pray for the other
Help make the change
Life never leaves you
Hope will remain

Someone that you
Know someone you can't see
Someone you will know
Time to set them free
Someone speaks his mind
Someone looks for truth
Someone to believe
So much faith in you

Someone that you
Know someone you can't see
Someone you will know
Time to set them free
Someone speaks his mind
Someone looks for truth
Someone to believe
So much faith in you

Camille

You didn't know why you were the one
The deal you struck with fate
Signed sealed delivered in your hands
Trying hard to forget the one whose sympathy you wrought
Betrayed by the visions from your mind
And all the work you did demanded compromise from men
A woman's genius left out in the cold
And no-one really cared about the soul who lived inside
And freedom stolen from the wings of love

All the worlds afraid of you
So terrified of questioning
Unable to protect the fragile beast
Incarcerated for your power and driven mad by love
Struck wounded fear like statues in your heart

All you ever needed was the recognition you deserved
And not to be betrayed by one who saw
The jealousy 
His jaded soul 
That brought you to your knees 
The passion in your hands that needed clay

Your hands..... 
Your hands.... 
Your eyes......

Flame

Two thousand, five thousand, 10 thousand
So many years ago
Looking for the thread that runs through time
Man didn’t know what he wasn’t supposed to understand
Is it a different heartbeat
That we are listening to?

If I could see
Beyond it all
If I could see
Into myself
If we could only understand
And pull back all the veils of time
What kind of Love is this
That we are always dreaming of? 

You are the flame
You are, you are….

All the love in the world
Everything that we are dreaming of
Too easy to forget
What it is that we need?
If we could only understand
And pull back all the veils of time
What kind of Love is this
That we are always dreaming of?

You are the Flame
You are, you are…….

Credits for each song

Coming of Lugh:

Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 1:37
Genre -- Irish War March
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Bodhran
David Hannibal - Electric Guitar, Keyboard Sequencing, Drum Programming
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Backing Vocals
Greg Stone - Bass

Winds of love:

Trad: Arranged by Haunted By Waters
Needle Drop -- 1:48
Genre:  World Beat
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocal
David Hannibal - Classical Guitar, Drum Programming
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Dumbec, Backing Vocals
Greg Stone - Bass

Hideaway:

Composers -- Hannibal/McWhir
Needle Drop -- 1:23
Genre:  Rock/Pop
David Hannibal - Electric Guitar, Keyboard and Drum Programming
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals
Gerry Bassermann - Sample Percussion, Keyboards
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Backing Vocals
Greg Stone - Bass
Featured:  Stephen Schultz - Processed Baroque Flute

Like the Dust:

Composers -- Hannibal/McWhir
Needle Drop -- 3:22
Genre:  World Fusion
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Tin Whistle, Bodhran
David Hannibal - Keyboards, Drum Programming
Gerry Bassermann - Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums
Greg Stone - Bass
Featured:  Cat Taylor - Electric Violin

Shasta:

Composers -- Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 1:07
Genre:  World Fusion
David Hannibal - Classical Guitar, Didgeridoo
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Djembe, Dumbec
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Vir'cello, Backing Vocals, Conch
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Djembe, Dumbec, Bongos
Greg Ston - Bass
Featured:  Stephen Schultz - Baroque Flute

Drowning in the Waters:

Composers -- Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 5:07
Genre:  World Fusion
Gerry Bassermann – 12 String Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals
David Hannibal - Keyboards
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Udu Drums, Backing Vocals
Greg Stone - Bass
Rhan Wilson - Tabla

M’Bayata:

Composers -- Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 2:45
Genre:  World Beat
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Djembe
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Vocals, Cattle
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Vocals, Djembe
David Hannibal - Classical Guitar
Greg Stone - Bass

Jalne Jalne:

Composers -- Hannibal/McWhir
Needle Drop -- 3:49
Genre:  World Fusion
David Hannibal - Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Drum Programming
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Tin Whistle
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Backing Vocals, Djembe
Greg Stone - Bass

Impassione:

Composers -- Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 4:01
Genre:  World Fusion
David Hannibal - Didgeridoo
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Djembe
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Conch Shell
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Drums, Backing Vocals, Djembe
Greg Stone - Bass
Diana Maxwell - Rainstick

Pray:

Composers -- Hannibal/Bassermann/McWhir/Blaine
Needle Drop -- 4:05
Genre:  World Fusion
David Hannibal - Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Dumbec
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards, Sax, Backing Vocals
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Backing Vocals, Drums, Dumbec
Greg Stone - Bass
Featured:  Cat Taylor - Electric Violin

Camille:

Composers -- Hannibal/McWhir
Needle Drop -- 0:28
Genre:  World Fusion
Cait McWhir - Lead Vocals, Finger Cymbals
Gerry Bassermann - Keyboards
David Hannibal - Keyboards
Tina “Bean” Blaine - Udu Drums
Greg Stone - Bass
Rhan Wilson - Tabla
Featured:  Stephen Schultz - Baroque Flute